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Female Solo-Entrepreneurs

Coping Strategies for Handling the Challenges and Double Burden of Business and Private Life

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  1. Theresa Stossier

    1. Ferndorf, Austria

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Part of the book series: BestMasters (BEST)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Theresa Stossier
    Pages 1-4

  3. Conceptual Framework: Definitions and Overview of Female Entrepreneurship

    • Theresa Stossier
    Pages 5-40

  4. Gendered Enterprises and Female Business: Puzzles of Heterogeneity

    • Theresa Stossier
    Pages 41-49

  5. Empirical Analysis of (female) Solo Entrepreneurs: The Case of a South Austrian Region

    • Theresa Stossier
    Pages 51-57

  6. Results and Findings

    • Theresa Stossier
    Pages 59-151

  7. What Lessons did we Learn?

    • Theresa Stossier
    Pages 153-169

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 171-178
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About this book

Austria’s economy is characterized through small and medium sized enterprises. Solo entrepreneurs are considered a special form within SMEs and contribute a major share to Austrian’s economy besides being Austria’s most popular legal form of organization within the micro firms. In 2020 every second of Carinthia’s start-up businesses was established by a female entrepreneur. According to an entrepreneurship study presented by Volksbank in 2019, nearly half of all female entrepreneurs lived with children and juveniles. Two-thirds of women said they were solely responsible for family, childcare, and household and 71 percent of those female entrepreneurs specified that those circumstances caused difficulties for them. This book investigated Carinthian female solo entrepreneurs and aims to find out how these hard-working women manage their business and private life while contributing to such great extent to the (federal) state’s economy. The conceptual foundations were found in embeddednessand the contextual framework which supports the importance of numerous influences on different levels placed on the entrepreneur. The empirical section represents a primary research that evaluates self-collected data sets of Carinthian solo-entrepreneurs.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Ferndorf, Austria

    Theresa Stossier

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About the author
Theresa Stossier completed a master's program in business administration at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt after education and bachelor studies in the field of tourism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Female Solo-Entrepreneurs

  • Book Subtitle: Coping Strategies for Handling the Challenges and Double Burden of Business and Private Life

  • Authors: Theresa Stossier

  • Series Title: BestMasters

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40336-2

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Science and Law (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-40335-5Published: 11 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-40336-2Published: 10 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2625-3577

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-3615

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 178

  • Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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