Društveni kapital i žene u poduzetništvu: karakteristike društvenog kapitala žena-poduzetnica u različitim životnim razdobljima

Ovo istraživanje bavi se društvenim kapitalom poduzetnica u različitim životnim razdobljima. Glavna je hipoteza da žene-poduzetnice prolaze kroz različite razine i oblike društvenog kapitala prelazeći iz jedne životne faze u drugu u svom profesionalnom ciklusu. Promatramo emocionalnu potporu i podršku okoline, te instrumentalni društveni kapital putem kojeg žena-poduzetnica dolazi do informacija, poslovnih partnera i drugih resursa bitnih za njezin poduzetnički proces. Anketa je poslana e-poštom uzorku ženskih tvrtki dobivenih uz pomoć algoritma u poslovnom registru. Konačno, za statističku analizu koja koristi Leveneov F-test za potvrdu jednakosti varijanci, prikupljeno je u potpunosti odgovorenih 340 upitnika, a potom slijedi Tukeyev post hoc test. Inače, Tamhaneov test ne pretpostavlja jednakost varijanci. Na temelju rezultata studije nismo mogli potvrditi da različita životna razdoblja koja uključuju majčinstvo, roditeljstvo, biti i supruga i kućanica, imaju različite utjecaje na ženu poduzetnicu. Također ne možemo podržati hipotezu da postoji razlika u važnosti društvenih mreža. Međutim, naše istraživanje potvrdilo je razliku u važnosti utjecaja roditelja i utjecaja prijatelja i poznanika na njihov poduzetnički put.
This research examined women entrepreneurs’ social capital in their different life stages.The main hypothesis is that women would have different levels and forms of social capital as they move from one stage to another in their lives in a professional cycle. We observe emotional support and encouragement from the environment, and instrumental social capital, through which the entrepreneur accesses information, business partners, and other resources relevant to her entrepreneurial process. A survey was emailed to a sample of women’s businesses detected with the help of an algorithm in a business register. Finally, there were 340 fully answered questionnaires collected for the statistical analysis that utilized Levene’s F-test to confirm equality of variances, followed by Tukey’s post hoc test. Otherwise, Tamhane’s test does not assume equality of variances. Based on the study results, we could not confirm that motherhood, which includes parenting, being a wife, and being a housewife, has different impacts on women entrepreneurs in different life stages. We also cannot support the hypothesis that there is a difference in the importance of social networks. However, our research confirmed the difference in the importance of parental influence and the influence of friends and acquaintances on their entrepreneurial journey.