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Overcoming Obstacles: Women Entrepreneurs Taking The Lead In Nonprofit Businesses, Theresa Kedinger
Overcoming Obstacles: Women Entrepreneurs Taking The Lead In Nonprofit Businesses, Theresa Kedinger
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Few theoretical models clarify the ways in which a learning experience contributes to entrepreneurial behavior or directly pursuing entrepreneurism. The purpose of this research is to better recognize how women use values, motivations, and desires, through learning experiences, to start a nonprofit organization. Results reveal that, in order to increase the likelihood of females becoming entrepreneurs, they must put themselves in positions where they can have many different experiences. They must be willing to establish networks, overcome societal barriers as well as self-imposed barriers, and reflect upon the experiences they find themselves in, whether they are positive or negative. Such …