A profile : the self-made woman entrepreneur in Puerto Rico /
Rodríguez, Lee Ann
A profile : the self-made woman entrepreneur in Puerto Rico / by Lee Ann Rodríguez. - 2014. - 1 disco de computadora (xi, 256 hojas) : gráficas y tablas ; 3½ pulgadas (12 centímetros)
Título de cubierta en hoja añadida en el sobre del disco de computadora.
Tesis (Doctorado en Administración de Empresas) -- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, 2014.
Referencias bibliográficas: hojas 212-223.
This study was the first to examine and to provide a profile on the self-made entrepreneurial female in Puerto Rico. The research questions were: (1) What is the profile of the self-made woman entrepreneur doing business in Puerto Rico? (2) How does the profile of the self-made woman entrepreneur in Puerto Rico compare to the GEM entrepreneurship profile? To answer the research questions, we adopted the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Model (Kelley D. J., Brush, Greene, & Litovsky, 2011) theoretical framework together with the International Marketing Task (Cateora & Graham, International Marketing, 2007). Regarding GEM, we specifically drew on the GEM Innovation and Entrepreneurship Framework and on the GEM Entrepreneurship Profile. Our research design was a descriptive mix-method as defined by Creswell & Plano-Clark (2011) with a snowball sampling method that resulted in case studies. The population for this study comprised the leading women business owners in Puerto Rico, as published in the Caribbean Book of Lists 2013, and the members of the Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals Network of the Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Rico. The study achieved a 79% response rate. We found that the self-made woman entrepreneur in Puerto Rico was over 40 years of age, married and with children. She was native Puerto Rican and highly educated, with many years of prior experience before creating her firm. Her business created jobs, yielded net revenues and was the main source of her income. She believed that her personality had much to do with her entrepreneurial spirit and also stressed the importance of networking. Our entrepreneurial female was primarily motivated by creating something of her own. She did not rate many things as barriers to entrepreneurship, but rather she embraced challenges as part of the entrepreneurial process. Very importantly, she engaged in much planning. We found that the self-made female entrepreneur in Puerto Rico compared to the GEM entrepreneurship profile regarding attitudes, activities and aspirations. Nonetheless, her perception of the GEM innovation and entrepreneurship framework scored low on eight of the nine conditions. She only ranked cultural and social norms as favorable for female entrepreneurship on the island.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico--Dissertations
Businesswomen--Research--Puerto Rico
T 338.092 / R6961p CD
A profile : the self-made woman entrepreneur in Puerto Rico / by Lee Ann Rodríguez. - 2014. - 1 disco de computadora (xi, 256 hojas) : gráficas y tablas ; 3½ pulgadas (12 centímetros)
Título de cubierta en hoja añadida en el sobre del disco de computadora.
Tesis (Doctorado en Administración de Empresas) -- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, 2014.
Referencias bibliográficas: hojas 212-223.
This study was the first to examine and to provide a profile on the self-made entrepreneurial female in Puerto Rico. The research questions were: (1) What is the profile of the self-made woman entrepreneur doing business in Puerto Rico? (2) How does the profile of the self-made woman entrepreneur in Puerto Rico compare to the GEM entrepreneurship profile? To answer the research questions, we adopted the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Model (Kelley D. J., Brush, Greene, & Litovsky, 2011) theoretical framework together with the International Marketing Task (Cateora & Graham, International Marketing, 2007). Regarding GEM, we specifically drew on the GEM Innovation and Entrepreneurship Framework and on the GEM Entrepreneurship Profile. Our research design was a descriptive mix-method as defined by Creswell & Plano-Clark (2011) with a snowball sampling method that resulted in case studies. The population for this study comprised the leading women business owners in Puerto Rico, as published in the Caribbean Book of Lists 2013, and the members of the Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals Network of the Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Rico. The study achieved a 79% response rate. We found that the self-made woman entrepreneur in Puerto Rico was over 40 years of age, married and with children. She was native Puerto Rican and highly educated, with many years of prior experience before creating her firm. Her business created jobs, yielded net revenues and was the main source of her income. She believed that her personality had much to do with her entrepreneurial spirit and also stressed the importance of networking. Our entrepreneurial female was primarily motivated by creating something of her own. She did not rate many things as barriers to entrepreneurship, but rather she embraced challenges as part of the entrepreneurial process. Very importantly, she engaged in much planning. We found that the self-made female entrepreneur in Puerto Rico compared to the GEM entrepreneurship profile regarding attitudes, activities and aspirations. Nonetheless, her perception of the GEM innovation and entrepreneurship framework scored low on eight of the nine conditions. She only ranked cultural and social norms as favorable for female entrepreneurship on the island.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico--Dissertations
Businesswomen--Research--Puerto Rico
T 338.092 / R6961p CD