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Hurtado Mercado, Nahir Katiuska (2023) The inherent challenges in creating a new business in Ireland: the experiences of women entrepreneurs across the last five years. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.
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Abstract
Women are still diminished in entrepreneurship regardless of the great increment of female-owned businesses. Female entrepreneurs face many challenges when they are starting their businesses and this study aims to discover the current difficulties that women encounter. The literature review reveals that existing programs for women entrepreneurs are not always utilized due to a lack of awareness or a perceived lack of relevance, and that female entrepreneurs frequently rely on their own networks and communities for support. Furthermore, a crucial problem is that there is not enough current information of the barriers that women entrepreneurs deal with when they create start-ups and that is the gap that this research is filling. Therefore, the aim of this research is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges associated with starting a business as a woman and the strategies they employ to confront the entrepreneurial glass ceiling.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Semi-structured one-on-one interviews were conducted with female entrepreneurs in Ireland who had started their businesses within the past five years to accomplish the goals of this study. The data obtained from these interviews was analyzed using thematic analysis which results are reported in chapter 5.
Findings: According to the findings of this study, women have difficulty locating information regarding the things they will need to start a business and how to start one. Also, motherhood was found to be a challenge but an advantage at the same time. The most surprising finding was how much the Irish culture has affected how women entrepreneurs approach entrepreneurship.
Originality/Value: As mentioned by participants, there is not much information on how to start a business in Ireland, this research does not aim to guide them through the process of opening a business, but it gives an overview of the difficulties that they could face and some insight on how they could deal with stress and the challenges.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Supervisors: | Name Email Kracen, Amanda UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Entrepreneurship; Female; Women; Entrepreneurs; Ireland; Glass-Ceiling |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory > Entrepreneurship H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > New Business Enterprises H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Issues of Labour and Work > Classes of Labour > Women and Work |
| Divisions: | School of Business > Master of Science in Management |
| Depositing User: | Tamara Malone |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2023 11:01 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2023 11:01 |
| URI: | https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/6799 |
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