Although the U.S. is at the forefront of nations promoting women's business ownership and entrepreneurship, the role of U.S. federal policies in supporting these goals remains unexamined. This study examines six decades (1951-2011) of U.S. Federal Statutes to answer the research question—how...

Institutional support at local, state, and national levels, including the services offered by business incubators, impacts women entrepreneurs’ venture creation and success. Yet, our understanding about the influence of an incubator’s attributes on women entrepreneurship remains limited. In...

Little research has analyzed the motivations forcreating a nonprofit enterprise; thus, the focus here is on the factors thatmotivate entrepreneurs to create both nonprofit and charitable for-profitenterprises. To understand both the birth and death rate of new nonprofitenterprises, data from the...