WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TERMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GENDER FACTORS: AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN ÇORUM

Öz

Women entrepreneurship provides women with the opportunity to fulfill their roles in the family as well as to contribute to the society by achieving their own goals. Contribution to the society can be achieved only bring more innovation. In line with this thought, women entrepreneurs who are trying to bring more innovation in society and give importance to innovation are important for the society. In this study, female entrepreneurship was studied due to the importance of entrepreneurship. In this respect, the main purpose of our research is to determine the thoughts on the environmental factors (social and cultural, economic, legal and political factors), the thoughts about entrepreneurship and the gender factors in women entrepreneurship. According to the results of the research, women's arithmetic mean value of entrepreneurship thought is high. The Female entrepreneurs participating in the research believe that social and cultural, economic, legal and political factors affect women entrepreneurs. Moreover, there is a low level of relationship between entrepreneurship thoughts and gender factors but gender factors did not have anyinfluence on women entrepreneurial thinking. This study is meaningful and differentiating due to the fact that female entrepreneurs think that they are not different from male entrepreneurs. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Entrepreneurship
• Women Entrepreneurship
• Environmental Factors
• Gender

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TERMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GENDER FACTORS: AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN ÇORUM

Öz

Entrepreneurship can be said to be a value creation activity that starts with opportunity definition, reveals innovative approaches and brings innovation and transformations in the face of innovation. Societies that understand the contribution of entrepreneurship to social life and the wealth of the society are trying to increase the number of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are individuals who create new employment opportunities, enable innovation, and increase the level of social welfare in economic and social life. Increasing the number of entrepreneurs in a society is not only possible with the increase of male entrepreneurs, the other part (half) of the society are expected to be engaged in entrepreneurial activities and the necessary support and encouragement activities are made for them to be entrepreneurs. To reach the desired level of development in our country, in addition to male counterparts, is dependent on the increase in the number of female entrepreneurs who feel passion and attraction about entrepreneurship in their hearts and minds, take risks, need success with using knowledge and having an effective vision. Women entrepreneurship provides women with the opportunity to fulfill their roles in the family as well as to contribute to the society by achieving their own goals. Contribution to the society can be achieved only bring more innovation. In line with this thought, women entrepreneurs who are trying to bring more innovation  in society and give importance to innovation are important for the society. In this study, female entrepreneurship was studied due to the importance of entrepreneurship. In this respect, the main purpose of our research is to determine the thoughts on the environmental factors (social and cultural, economic, legal and political factors), the thoughts about entrepreneurship and the gender factors in women entrepreneurship. According to the results of the research, women's arithmetic mean value of entrepreneurship thought is high. The Female entrepreneurs participating in the research believe that social and cultural, economic, legal and political factors affect women entrepreneurs. Moreover,  there is  a low level of relationship between entrepreneurship thoughts and gender factors but gender factors did not have anyinfluence on women entrepreneurial thinking. This study is meaningful and differentiating due to the fact that female entrepreneurs think that they are not different from male entrepreneurs.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Entrepreneurship
• Women Entrepreneurship
• Environmental Factors

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