报告题目：Foreign Aid, Entry Barrier, and Women Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Africa
报告嘉宾：Jane Lu
City University of Hong Kong
报告时间：2024年10月10日(周四) 10:00-11:30
报告地点：中国科学院大学中关村校区教学楼S406
内容摘要
Women are under-represented in entrepreneurship. Extant research frequently attributes the relatively higher entry barrier to being the main impeding factor for women entrepreneurship and proposes country-level or intra-country-level policies to help female entrepreneurs. However, research to date has ignored the role of supra-national institutions. Considering that gender equality is an aspect of global societal grand challenges that need to be tackled through transnational solutions, we hypothesize that women-targeted foreign aid benefits female entrepreneurs by reducing entry barriers for women. Women-targeted foreign aid projects can provide entrepreneurial resources, facilitate policy reform, and diffuse social norms on gender equality, all of which reduce the cost of women starting a business. The lowered cost of women starting a business can enhance women entrepreneurship. Results based on 18,551 firm-year observations in 34 African countries show that women-targeted foreign aid projects are positively related to women entrepreneurship, and the cost of women starting a business fully mediates the relationship. Our findings enrich research on women entrepreneurship and supra-national institutions. It also has implications for policymakers regarding how to address grand societal challenges.
主讲人简介
Jane Lu is Chair Professor at the Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong. She is a fellow and vice president (administration) of the Academy of International Business Her research centers on the intersection between organization theory and strategy. Her earlier research investigates broad-level issues that underlie a firm's international strategy. Her recent research continues this line of research with a focus on emerging market firms and their non-market strategies. Her work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management and Journal of International Business Studies, among other leading journals. She is among the top 2% of the world's most highly cited scholars in business & management. She is currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of World Business and a Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies.
