Women in Business

[The role of women in entrepreneurship management and corporate governance is regarded as central to the development and welfare of economies. Since the early 1980s there has been increased interest in women managers and entrepreneurs often from an interdisciplinary approach combining for example sociology psychology management and organisational studies and economics. Nowadays research on women in management and organisations is continuously and rapidly evolving (Paoloni and Demartini 2016). Research on how women face new business challenges within organisations--as entrepreneurs owners managers as well as workers--can contribute to understanding the new drivers affecting value creation dynamics in our knowledge-based society (Cesaroni Demartini and Paoloni 2017). Accordingly this book tries to offer some insights on how women create process and share knowledge in their business activity through the application and exploitation of novel creative ideas and solutions]