A Study of Women’s Entrepreneurial Growth Expectations: Moderating Role of Fear of Failure

• Main Authors: Liu, Yi-Chun, 劉怡君
• Other Authors: Hsieh, Ru-Mei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4w94ab

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 103 === The global tends to concerning about the concept of gender mainstreaming these years, so there are more and more women are willing to participate in entrepreneurship, including the women in Taiwan. However, an increasing number of new ventures can’t measure growth of economic. We should focus on new ventures which are high-growth-oriented, because they are much important to the development of national economic. The growth expectations of the entrepreneurs play an important role in firm/economic growth. In addition, the entrepreneurs don’t need to have the special inherent advantages or high IQ, entrepreneurial competencies are much important and necessary to them. Therefore, our study based on the entrepreneurial competencies, we try to find out the relationship of entrepreneurial opportunities, innovative resources, team size and growth expectations of female entrepreneurs. We also examine whether the fear of failure moderates these relationship or not. For this purpose, we use Global Entrepreneurial Monitor (GEM) Taiwan Adult Population Survey (APS) database in the year of 2010 and 2011, and we choose 125 Total Early-stage Entrepreneurial (TEA) women as our samples. Our results indicate that (1) Entrepreneurial opportunities and team size have positive effects on growth expectations of female entrepreneurs. (2) Fear of failure will positively moderate the relationship of team size and growth expectation. Finally, we provide discussions, theoretical contributions, practical implications and future research directions.