Minding the Gender Gap
Minding the Gender Gap
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关注性别差距
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2015
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通讯作者：
Fangjing Tu
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作者：
Wenhong Chen;Justin Tan;Fangjing Tu
现有的研究尚未得出结论，性别社会网络是否以及在多大程度上导致了商业绩效中的性别差距。本研究以加拿大华人企业家为随机样本，考察了社交网络、互联网使用和商业绩效性别差异之间的关系。结果显示，企业规模的性别差异显著，在控制了社会网络、自愿协会参与、互联网使用和业务特征后，这一差异缩小了。更重要的是，网络构成和结构地位对男女企业家有不同的影响。男性在将关系优势转化为商业优势方面更有效。相互作用效应表明，亲属同质性会损害女性的商业业绩，但对男性没有影响。然而，妇女从参与跨国创业中获益更多。
Existing studies have been inconclusive on whether and the extent to which gendered social networks contribute to the gender gap in business performance. Drawing on a random sample of Chinese Canadian entrepreneurs, this research examines the nexus of social networks, Internet use, and the gender gap in business performance. Results reveal a marked gender difference in firm size, which becomes narrowed after social networks, voluntary association participation, Internet use, and business characteristics are controlled. More important, network composition and structural position have different implications for men and women entrepreneurs. Men are more effective in converting relational advantages into business advantages. Interaction effects suggest that kin homophily hurts women’s business performance but not men’s. Yet, women gain more from participating in transnational entrepreneurship.