1、字数：英文 2955 单词， 16392 字符；中文 5527 汉字 出处： Mara del Mar Alonso-Almeida.Influence of gender and financing on tourist company growthJJournal of Business Research.2013,66(6):621 631 外文文献： Influence of gender and financing on tourist company growth Abstract Research in both the manufactu
2、ring and service sectors has shown that companies run by women start with less capital and receive less external financing than firms run by men. This has had particularly adverse effects on the performance of companies managed by women. The present study analyzes start-up capital, financing and gro
3、wth in terms of revenue and number of employees in 10,170 tourist companies created in Spain since 1996, based on longitudinal data for the period 19962006. The aim is to learn whether or not gender is a significant explanatory variable. The findings differ substantially from the results of previous
4、 research. In this study, while no start-up capital differences are observed, tourist industry companies run by women are found to out-perform ones run by men in terms of corporate growth. The differences in external financing report earlier were also identified here, however. Keywords: Performance,
5、 Women, Start-up capital, External financing, Business results 1.Introduction The last twenty years bear witness to an increase in the number of papers studying and debating the role of women in management (Melero, 2011). Part of this research has focused on analyzing performance by means of compari
6、ng start-up capital (e.g. Carter & Rosa, 1998; Verheul & Thurik, 2001; Watson, 2002), subsequent financing (e.g. Coleman, 2002, 2007) and performance in companies run by men and women (e.g. Alsos, Isaksen, & Ljunggren, 2006; Fairlie & Robb, 2009; Rosa, Carter, & Hamilton, 1996). These studies obtain mixed results with regard to gender-related capitalization, external financing and performance. Such prior research is general excessively, since these studies fail to study real data for a specific indus
