Risk, success, and failure
Female entrepreneurship in late Victorian and Edwardian England
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3496403 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jennifer Aston (0000-0002-6392-4652), Paolo Di Martino (0000-0002-9030-9014, Aston University) |
| Año | 2017 |
| Volumen | 70 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 837-858 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ehr.12481 |
| OpenAlex | W2598975101 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 20 |
| Referencias citadas | 27 |
This article analyses female entrepreneurship in late Victorian and Edwardian England. Traditional views on female entrepreneurship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England point towards a decline in the number and relevance of women as business owners in comparison to the eighteenth century, and their retreat into a 'separate sphere' away from the world of trade and production. Recent studies, however, have deeply challenged this view, suggesting that women still played an important role as entrepreneurs during industrialization and beyond. Nevertheless, a number of questions remain unanswered with regard to the features of female entrepreneurship during these phases of British history, and issues such as scale of operation, attitude to risk, credit structure, and managerial styles are still widely debated. Using original sources, this article provides a novel view on these issues, analysing female entrepreneurship from the perspective of bankruptcy. Analysing statistics on women's bankruptcy derived from Board of Trade reports, as well as a sample of archival cases, this article argues that overall female business owners traded in ways similar to their male counterparts in terms of business size, risk-taking, and, eventually, success
Bankruptcy · Business · Business failure · Business history · Demographic economics · Economic history · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Female entrepreneurs · Geography · Industrialisation · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Relevance (law) · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
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| Citas por año | 2,86 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 20 |