Gender difference and informal competition: evidence from India
- 11 February 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Emerald in Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
- Vol. 26 (1), 2-17
- https://doi.org/10.1108/jsbed-01-2018-0010
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to document how male and female managers respond to competition posed by informal firms. The methodology uses the ordered logistic regression and the data provided by the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey to test the arguments for firms headquartered in India. The findings show that firms managed by females are more likely to consider informal competition as a bigger obstacle for their operations than firms managed by males. It also shows that this relationship is more pronounced in provinces with weak institutional infrastructure. Lastly, the paper shows that firms managed by females respond to competition from the informal sector by undertaking more innovations than firms managed by males. This research extends the literature on gender differences in response to competition by documenting how female managers respond to external competition in emerging markets.Keywords
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