Advancing Research

Research Grants

Through research grants, the WEI supports faculty engaged in scholarship focused on creating greater equity in entrepreneurship. Research sponsored by the WEI includes:

• Renko, Maija and Bort, James. Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Experiences and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs
• Devine, Richard. Women-Owned Breweries: How women entrepreneurs manage and mobilize resources from stakeholders in an under-represented industry

• Westring, Alyssa. Why We Need Dadpreneurs to Step Up Now. (2020).
• Bullough, Amanda, Renko, Maija & Abdelzaher, Dina (2017). Women’s business ownership: operating within the context of institutional and in-group collectivism. Journal of Management, Vol. 43, No. 7, 2037-2064.
• Caldwell, Kate, Parker Harris, Sarah & Renko, Maija (2017). Women, disability & entrepreneurship. In: The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship, edited by Colette Henry, Teresa Nelson and Kate Lewis.
• Bullough, Amanda & Renko, Maija (2017). A Different Frame of Reference: Entrepreneurship and Gender Differences in the Perception of Danger. Academy of Management Discoveries, Vol. 3, No. 1, 21-41.
• Hechavarría, Diana M., Terjesen, Siri A., Ingram, Amy E., Renko, Maija, Justo, Rachida & Elam, Amanda (2017). Taking care of business: the impact of culture and gender on entrepreneurs’ blended value creation goals. Small Business Economics, Vol. 48, No. 1, 225–257.
• Kickul, Jill & Griffiths, Mark & Robb, Colleen & Gundry, Lisa. (2021). All for one? The Paycheck Protection Program distribution disparity. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. ahead-of-print. 10.1108/JEPP-03-2021-0027.