Gender Differences in Entrepreneurship: The EU and Turkey

Year 2019, Volume: 17 Issue: 2, 317 - 349, 25.01.2019

Gönül Oğuz

https://doi.org/10.32450/aacd.511962

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The aim is to explore the challenges for women’s self-employment preferences
in Turkey in terms of the human resources strategies, influence and importance of the
EU policies affecting their entrepreneurial activities. It focuses on the questions of
how and why women’s entrepreneurship in Turkey is a distinct feature of the EU
entrepreneurship, which may have a different impact on competitiveness. It begins
with analysis of a range of specific challenges and obstacles faced by innovative
women in setting up, running and expanding their businesses, discusses the individual
resources of education and skills in terms of women’s entry in entrepreneurship and
success, proceeds to analysis of entrepreneurship tools to the extent of which how
such resources are related to the nature and volume of women’s entrepreneurship.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, European Union, Human Capital, Women

Girişimcilikte Cinsiyet Farklılıkları: AB ve Türkiye

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı insan kaynakları stratejileri ve kadın girişimcilik
faaliyetlerini etkileyen Avrupa Birliği (AB) politikalarının etkisi ve önemi açısından
Türkiye'de kadın serbest meslek tercihleri için zorlukları ele almaktır. Türkiye'de nasıl
ve neden kadın girişimciliğinin rekabet üzerinde farklı bir etkiye sahip AB
girişimciliğinin ayrı bir özelliğe sahip olup olmadığı sorularına odaklanmaktadır.
Çalışma iş kuran, işleten ve işlerini büyüten yenilikçi kadınların karşılaştığı bir dizi
özel zorluklar ve engellerin analizi ile başlayıp, kadınların girişimciliğe başlayışı ve
başarısı açısından bireysel eğitim kaynaklarını ve becerilerini anlatmakta ve söz  konusu kaynakların kadın girişimciliği doğası ve oranı ile nasıl ilgili olduğu yönünde
girişimcilik mekanizmalarının analizi ile devam etmektedir.

Keywords

Girişimcilik, Avrupa Birliği, İnsan Kaynakları, Kadın

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