Determinants of female entrepreneurship success across Saudi Arabia

Osama Sam Al-Kwifi; Tran Tien Khoa; Viput Ongsakul; Zafar U. Ahmed

doi:10.1080/15475778.2019.1682769

Determinants of female entrepreneurship success across Saudi Arabia

Osama Sam Al-Kwifi^*, Tran Tien Khoa, Viput Ongsakul, Zafar U. Ahmed

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that affect the decision of university female students to start a business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Most of the existing research focuses on exploring the challenges female entrepreneurs face after they start a business, but no research has investigated the challenges they encounter before they start a business. A total of 507 responses were collected from six universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Findings show that knowledge about starting a business is the most influential factor that motivates female students to establish their own business.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-29
Number of pages	27
Journal	Journal of Transnational Management
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15475778.2019.1682769
State	Published - 2 Jan 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Entrepreneurship
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
discrimination
female entrepreneurs
knowledge
supportive structure

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Geography, Planning and Development
Development
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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