Contemporary Female Entrepreneurship in Nicaragua
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Female Entrepreneurship, Nicaragua
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Women are important entrepreneurial actors within the Nicaraguan economic ecosystem. Majority female-owned firms comprise 32.7% of all urban Nicaraguan formal enterprises; these ownership rates far exceed the regional (21.8%) or global averages (14.5%). Within Nicaragua, self-employment rates for women (43.3%) surpass that of men (28.3%). This article describes the contemporary Nicaraguan entrepreneurial landscape for female-owned enterprises using the 2016 Nicaraguan Enterprise Survey of 333 formal sector urban-based firms conducted by the World Bank. Principal multivariate results include the concentration of female top management with majority female-ownership, the role of the informal sector in spawning formal female enterprises, and size constraints of female-owned enterprises.
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Michael J Pisani, Central Michigan University
PhD, University of Texas - Pan-American [Now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley]. Professor of International Business, Central Michigan University. E-mail: m.pisani@cmich.edu ORCID ID#: 0000-0001-7773-5951
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