隨著性別主流化來臨,全球開始掀起女性創業之新浪潮,臺灣女性亦逐漸願意投入於創業活動,但是新創事業增加的數量並無法代表經濟成長之衡量指標,高成長型之新創企業方為國家經濟發展之重要支柱,而成長期待便扮演著促使企業與經濟成長之重要角色。再者,創業者進入創業環境並不需要擁有特殊的先天條件或高智商,創業能力方為必備之條件。因此,本研究以創業能力觀點作為基礎,以2010年與2011年全球創業觀察 (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; GEM)之臺灣成人人口調查 (Adult Population Survey; APS)數據中,早期創業活動者 (Total Early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity; TEA) 125份女性創業者為分析對象,探究女性新創業者所具有之創業機會、創新資源與創業團隊等不同能力,是否會影響其成長期待,並以害怕失敗此心理層面的變數作為調節變數進行探討。本研究發現創業機會與創業團隊為影響女性新創業者之關鍵要素,而害怕失敗則會正向調節創業團隊與成長期待之關係。最後根據上述研究結果提出結論、討論分析、理論貢獻與實務意涵。
The global tends to concerning about the concept of gender mainstreaming these years, so there are more and more women are willing to participate in entrepreneurship, including the women in Taiwan. However, an increasing number of new ventures can’t measure growth of economic. We should focus on new ventures which are high-growth-oriented, because they are much important to the development of national economic. The growth expectations of the entrepreneurs play an important role in firm/economic growth. In addition, the entrepreneurs don’t need to have the special inherent advantages or high IQ, entrepreneurial competencies are much important and necessary to them. Therefore, our study based on the entrepreneurial competencies, we try to find out the relationship of entrepreneurial opportunities, innovative resources, team size and growth expectations of female entrepreneurs. We also examine whether the fear of failure moderates these relationship or not. For this purpose, we use Global Entrepreneurial Monitor (GEM) Taiwan Adult Population Survey (APS) database in the year of 2010 and 2011, and we choose 125 Total Early-stage Entrepreneurial (TEA) women as our samples. Our results indicate that (1) Entrepreneurial opportunities and team size have positive effects on growth expectations of female entrepreneurs. (2) Fear of failure will positively moderate the relationship of team size and growth expectation. Finally, we provide discussions, theoretical contributions, practical implications and future research directions.