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Women Entrepreneurship in the Light of Relational Capital: General Insights

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Starting from the assumption that women entrepreneurs are relevant developers of the corporate business in small and microenterprises, the main purpose of this chapter is to propose a literature analysis discovering how relational capital influences the first stage of women enterprises. Thus, a literature search on Scopus has been conducted to expand the international literature on the connection between gender studies and relational capital. In this way, evidence proposed are directed to better understand the debate on gender and relational capital.

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  1. Department of UNISU, Faculty of Economics, Niccolò Cusano University, Don Gnocchi Street 3, 00166, Rome, Italy

    Paola Paoloni

  2. Department of Law and Economics of Productive Activities, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Rosa Lombardi

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    Paola Paoloni

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    Rosa Lombardi

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Paoloni, P., Lombardi, R. (2018). Women Entrepreneurship in the Light of Relational Capital: General Insights. In: Paoloni, P., Lombardi, R. (eds) Gender Issues in Business and Economics. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65193-4_9

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