25 research outputs found
Experience and gender effects in acquisition experiment with value messages
In the bargaining experiment, the privately informed seller of a company sends a value message to the uninformed potential buyer who proposes a price for acquiring the company. Participants are constantly either seller or buyer and interact over 30 rounds with randomly changing partners. How are overstating the value of the company, underpricing the received value message and acceptance of price offers affected by experience and gender (constellation)? We control via treatments for awareness of gender (constellation) and show that gender (constellation) matters and that the main experience effects apply across gender (constellations)
Leveraging the macro-level environment to balance work and life: an analysis of female entrepreneurs' job satisfaction
This study investigates the interactive effect of female entrepreneurs’ experience of work–life imbalance and gender-egalitarian macro-level conditions on their job satisfaction, with the prediction that the negative linear relationship between work–life imbalance and job satisfaction may be buffered by the presence of women-friendly action resources, emancipative values, and civic entitlements. Data pertaining to 7,392 female entrepreneurs from 44 countries offer empirical support for these predictions. Female entrepreneurs who are preoccupied with their ability to fulfill both work and life responsibilities are more likely to maintain a certain level of job satisfaction, even if they experience significant work–life imbalances, to the extent that they operate in supportive macro-level environments
The impact of gender differences on determinants of job satisfaction among Chinese off–farm migrants in Jiangsu
This study examines the effect of own income versus reference group income and the subjective factors considered important in a job for a sample of off–farm migrants in China. We find that own income has a positive effect on job satisfaction while the effect of reference group income is gender specific. We find evidence that males experience a tunnelling effect (higher income co-workers increase their job satisfaction) while females experience a jealousy effect (higher income co-workers lower their job satisfaction). We explain this result in terms of men reacting more positively in competitive environments and that, in China, males have better prospects for promotion. We find that compared with employees in western countries, off–farm migrants in China place much more emphasis on income and less importance on collegiality and job stability
Women entrepreneurs and work-family conflict: an analysis of the antecedents
Over the years, academic attention towards work-family conflict (WFC)
issues has been constantly growing due to the socio-economic changes occurring in
society. In line with this, great effort has been devoted to investigating WFC experienced
by employees, while still almost untapped is the conversation with reference to
women entrepreneurs. Moreover, the few studies that deal with women entrepreneurs’
WFC have mainly analysed its negative consequences rather than its predictors. Thus,
this study aims to fill such research gap by analysing women entrepreneurs’ WFC
antecedents. Based on the bidimensional conceptualization of WFC, distinguishing
between work interference with family (WIF) and family interference with work (FIW),
this study verifies an expanded model of theWFC which takes into consideration either
the within-domain effects or the cross-domain effects of work and family stressors on
WIF and FIWexperienced by women entrepreneurs. In doing so, an analysis based on
data from 669 women entrepreneurs has been conducted. Results show that both
within-domain relationships and cross-domain relationships play a key role in
explaining the WFC experienced by women entrepreneurs