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Purpose
Women entrepreneurs are having increasingly profound impacts on the global economic landscape, although little is known about what supports or restricts women's entrepreneurial attempts. The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptual (i.e. presence of role models and fear of failure) and cognitive (i.e. opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial knowledge) mechanisms that influence a women's choice of an entrepreneurial career.


Design/methodology/approach
A transnational sample of 9,716 women participating in global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM) survey was examined using logistical regression analysis.


Findings
The results indicate that role models, opportunity discovery and entrepreneurial knowledge have a significant and positive influence on female respondents' entrepreneurial intentions. Interestingly, fear of failure is not related to their entrepreneurial intention, which challenges the prevailing assumption that the worries about new venture outcomes are the primary suppressor of women's entrepreneurship.


Originality/value
This study sheds new light on the intention of becoming women entrepreneurs, which has multiple implications for originality/value. This study sheds new light on the intention of becoming women entrepreneurs, which has many implications for policymakers. Moreover, theoretical contributions and directions for future research are discussed.

This study draws upon institutional theory to investigate how the country's institutional framework fosters start-up activities or causes a bottleneck that diminishes Austrians' entrepreneurship. Through a multiple case study approach based on in-depth interviews with five start-up founders, our findings illustrate the impacts of the Austrian institutional environment on new venture initiatives. Among many institutional factors, incubation centres, administrative bureaucracies, and financial burdens appear to have the strongest effects on early-stage start-up activities in Austria. This paper concludes by providing theoretical insight and political implications on establishing institutional systems that streamline interactions between government, the local community, and start-up companies.