RRBM Honor Roll
The RRBM Honor Roll publications have been selected as examples of research that is both rigorous and relevant. The listing below offers credible insights for society.
These publications have been selected for the RRBM Honor Roll by the Selection Board with the exception of 2019 articles selected by a pre-test review panel.
| Nature of the publication | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Title of the publication | An institutional perspective on borrowing discouragement among female-owned enterprises and the role of regional female empowerment |
| Journal name/Book publisher | Journal of Business Venturing |
| DOI | doi.org |
| Abstract | We develop an institutional perspective to examine the important, albeit largely overlooked, occurrence of borrowing discouragement for female-owned enterprises: the likelihood that they will not seek business financing because they believe their requests will be rejected. Given a prevailing business logic casting the field of entrepreneurship as largely male-typed, we theorize that female-owned enterprises will be more likely than their male-owned counterparts to exhibit borrowing discouragement. However, we also further propose that gender-based borrowing discouragement will be influenced by female empowerment levels in three distinct indicators of female empowerment that vary by geographic region within a society: social and economic autonomy, reproductive rights, and political participation. We find strong support for our pre- dictions using a unique multi-sourced sample of 4090 small businesses operating in the United States. |
| Author #1 | Juanita Kimiyo Forrester |
| Affiliation Author #1 | Mercer University |
| Author #2 | Francois Neville |
| Affiliation Author #2 | McMaster University |