Volume 24, 2013
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting
Kathie L. Court
Pages 253-262
Mapping the Economic Contribution of Women Entrepreneurs
The purpose of this research was to discover and describe the economic contribution one group of women entrepreneurs. The research participants were low
resource and laid-off women who had graduated from a Microenterprise Assistance Program (MEP). There was no differentiation among women by age, race, or ethnicity. The theoretical landscape that underpins this research includes economic geography and women entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurship and economic development. This research provided a geographic representation of the dispersion and volume of the self-reported business expenses of women entrepreneurs located in one geographic area. In addition, this research developed and examined the viability of an assessment tool that maps the business payments made by entrepreneurs.