PhD defence: Manar Saleh Alnamlah

Gender disparity is not only pronounced in the likelihood of entrepreneurship and success but also in venture funding. Given that access to capital is one of the detrimental factors in a venture’s survival and success, this disparity in funding potentially contributes to the loss of innovative new ideas and economic growth. Using multiple experimental approaches, this dissertation examines potential underlying mechanisms on the capital supply-side, capital demand-side, and their interaction. The dissertation intends to contribute to the ongoing debate about the gender gap in entrepreneurial finance and advance our understanding of the role that investors’ beliefs about female entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs' capital-seeking behavior, and investor-entrepreneur gender dynamics play in driving the observed funding gap.
 
Primary Supervisor:
Professor Mirjam van Praag
Department of Strategy and Innovation
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary Supervisors:
Associate Professor Orsola Garofalo
Department of Strategy and Innovation
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assistant Professor Ali Mohammadi
Department of Strategy and Innovation
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Aleksandra Gregoric (Chair)
Department of Strategy and Innovation
Copenhagen Business School
 
Associate Professor Tom Vanacker
Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organisation
Ghent University
 
Professor Jordi Brandts
Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
 
Thesis:


The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk
 
*Please note in connection with the online defence that the microphone and camera of all spectators must be turned off!