"Motherhood Means Business: a motivational factor behind entrepreneurship?” A qualitative study of what can motivate a mother to become an entrepreneur
(2023) FEKH99 20231Department of Business Administration
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Title: Motherhood Means Business: a motivational factor in entrepreneurship
Seminar date: 1 June 2023
Course: FEKH99, Bachelor Degree Project in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Business administration, 15 University Credit Points
Authors: Molly Eklund, Isa Stinger & Stina Svensson
Advisor: Ziad El-Awad
Keywords: Mother entrepreneurship; motivational factors; Push and Pull theory; Opportunity recognition.
Research question: Can motherhood generate motivational factors that positively affect a mother’s choice to become an entrepreneur? If so, what can characterize them and how can they function?
Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to examine how mothers get positively affected by their children and how this can result in... (More) - Title: Motherhood Means Business: a motivational factor in entrepreneurship
Seminar date: 1 June 2023
Course: FEKH99, Bachelor Degree Project in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Business administration, 15 University Credit Points
Authors: Molly Eklund, Isa Stinger & Stina Svensson
Advisor: Ziad El-Awad
Keywords: Mother entrepreneurship; motivational factors; Push and Pull theory; Opportunity recognition.
Research question: Can motherhood generate motivational factors that positively affect a mother’s choice to become an entrepreneur? If so, what can characterize them and how can they function?
Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to examine how mothers get positively affected by their children and how this can result in entrepreneurial activities.
Methodology: This thesis is a qualitative research based on semi structured interviews with 10 mother entrepreneurs with a purpose of answering the research question.
Theoretical perspective: The theoretical framework created in this thesis is based on two different theories used to describe entrepreneurship activities and motivational factors.
Result: Four motivational factors related to motherhood were identified and could be linked to the mother’s decision to create a business.
Conclusions: Motherhood is a generating motivational factor that positively affects a mother’s choice to become an entrepreneur, and can function as both push and pull factors. (Less)
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- Eklund, Molly LU ; Svensson, Stina LU and Stinger, Isa LU
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- course
- FEKH99 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
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- keywords
- Mother entrepreneurship, motivational factors, Push and Pull theory, Opportunity recognition
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- English
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- 9132324
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