69: Jennifer & Dev Jennings (Alberta): Prosecco and The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence

Here’s another episode from the Reversing the Arrow Conference, held at Boulder’s beautiful Chautauqua Park in June 2024. This time, Brad and Jeff speak with Jennifer and Dev Jennings. Both are professors in the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Alberta’s School of Business. They also happen to be the first married couple to appear on Creative Distillation. While enjoying a crisp Prosecco on the porch of the Chautauqua Mission House, Jen and Dev talk about a paper they’ve co-written which looks at how starting a business with one’s romantic partner tends to lead to stereotypical gender roles translating from the marriage into the business, requiring a special kind of work life balancing to truly succeed. Then Jen tells us about her recent paper examining the gender gap in entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and how that plays out in terms of investor confidence, the ability to learn and adapt, and, ultimately, a venture’s success. The results may surprise you. All of that and more, in this episode of Creative Distillation. Enjoy and cheers! —— This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded on the front porch of the Chautauqua Mission House at the Reversing the Arrow Conference, held in Boulder in June 2024. Jen’s paper, “Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence,” was published in June 2022 in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Check the show notes for a link. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10422587221102108 Learn more about Jennifer Jennings on her faculty page at the University of Alberta website. https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jjenning -- Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [e-mail]. Thanks for listening. -
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