Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage personal accumulations of knowledge, skills, relationships and networks when starting and growing new ventures. A conceptual framework of "embedded career capital" accrued during past experiences and transferable to the individuals’ new entrepreneurial ventures is put forward. ududDesign/methodology/approach – Structured, in-depth interviews with ten female entrepreneurs who recently left senior management positions in large UK corporations to start their own ventures support a spectrum from embedded career capital which is transferable and value-creating to embodied career capital consisting of immobile, non-rent-generating accumulations. ududFindings – Senior women managers leverage "embedded career capital", human capital and social capital accumulated from past experiences, when founding and growing their own businesses. Embedded career capital is mobile and value-generating to the women's new start-ups. In contrast, embodied capital is not capable of generating rents outside the arena in which it was developed and not transferable to the new venture. ududResearch limitations/implications – This exploratory study is based on ten interviews, and reveals practical implications for both senior women managers eager to advance their careers as entrepreneurs and companies keen to retain these women. ududOriginality/value – The results provide support for the new concept of embedded career capital. This paper is one of the first to examine how women account for the use of human capital and social capital in the transition from corporate management to own ventures.
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机译:目的–本文旨在探讨高级女性经理人离开公司组织而创立自己的公司的现象。人力资本和社会资本的获得促进了妇女担任高级管理职务。女性前公司经理在创办和发展新企业时会利用个人知识,技能,关系和网络的积累。提出了过去经验中积累的“嵌入式职业资本”的概念框架,该概念框架可以转移到个人的新创业企业中。 ud ud设计/方法/方法–对十位女性企业家进行的结构化,深度访谈,这些企业家最近离开了大型英国公司的高级管理职位,开始了自己的事业,支持着从可移植,创造价值到体现的嵌入式职业资本。职业资本,包括不动产,不产生租金的积累。 ud ud发现-高级女性管理人员在创立和发展自己的企业时,会利用从过去的经验中积累的“嵌入式职业资本”,人力资本和社会资本。嵌入式职业资本可以流动,并为女性新创业公司创造价值。相比之下,体现资本不能在其开发场所之外产生租金,也不能转让给新企业。 ud ud研究的局限性/含意-这项探索性研究以十次访谈为基础,揭示了对渴望晋升事业的高级女经理和渴望保留这些女性的公司的实际影响。 ud udOriginality / value-结果为嵌入式职业资本的新概念提供了支持。本文是第一个研究女性在从公司管理向私有企业过渡中如何使用人力资本和社会资本的方法之一。
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