Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness
‘Green’ and Socially-Responsible Companies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10404271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandra Colombelli (0000-0003-4513-8612, Politecnico di Torino), Anna D’ambrosio (0000-0002-7946-7695, Politecnico di Torino, corresponding author), Chiara Ravetti (0000-0002-8034-5265, Politecnico di Torino) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00343404.2024.2340999 |
| OpenAlex | W4396864075 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 80 |
We explore the link between women in business decision-making roles, regional gender equality in the workforce and start-up sustainability. We employ unique administrative data on innovative start-ups in Italy and implement a novel crawler-based semantic search of start-ups’ websites to identify ‘green’ firms. Our findings on high-tech innovative start-ups confirm established evidence in the female entrepreneurship literature: greater shares of women in decision-making roles increase the probability of a social focus but decrease the likelihood of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-intensive green energy objectives. Instead, the board gender composition does not correlate with non-energy ‘green’ objectives. Non-energy ‘green’ firms emerge more in gender-equal regions, while social start-ups develop where women have fewer employment opportunities
Business · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Regional development · Regional science · Regional studies · Sociology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Diversity and Inequality
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |