Work-family interface experiences and coping strategies: Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Jennings, Jennifer E.; McDougald, Megan S.
• 署名单位: University of Alberta
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 747-760
• 关键词: self-employment; multiple roles; ROLE STRESSORS; GENDER; CONFLICT; BUSINESS; women; career; success; performance

摘要

The entrepreneurship literature has been criticized for providing inadequate accounts of business owners' actual experiences and challenges. Work-family interface (WFI) considerations in particular are noticeably absent from much theorizing and research-despite the importance of such considerations to entrepreneurs themselves. We demonstrate how constructs from the WFI literature can help address an important entrepreneurship question that has not been answered satisfactorily to date: Why is there a persistent performance differential between male-headed and female-headed firms?