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Friederike Welter

Friederike Welter

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
59
Citations
21431
World Ranking
576
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow

Overview

Friederike Welter is affiliated with the University of Siegen in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within business, management, and social sciences, focusing notably on entrepreneurship and related interdisciplinary approaches.

The main fields of Welter's work include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, they concentrate on several subfields, including:

  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Accounting
  • Strategy and Management

The primary topics addressed in Welter's research reflect a broad scope of entrepreneurship and societal influences:

  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

Welter's recent papers include:

  • "Moving Contexts Onto New Roads: Clues From Other Disciplines" (2020), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • "Context, time, and change: Historical approaches to entrepreneurship research" (2020), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • "Contexts and gender - looking back and thinking forward" (2020), International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
  • "It's right nearby: how entrepreneurs use spatial bricolage to overcome resource constraints" (2020), Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • "The Diana project: a legacy for research on gender in entrepreneurship" (2020), International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Welter include:

  • Uwe Cantner
  • R. Daniel Wadhwani
  • William B. Gartner
  • David Urbano
  • Irene Bertschek

In terms of publication venues, Welter's work is often featured in:

  • Wirtschaftsdienst
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
  • Small Business Economics

Welter has contributed to academic literature through book publications as well. One example is a book published with Springer International Publishing titled The Clash of Entrepreneurial Cultures? released in 2022.

Among awards received, Welter holds the designation of 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow.

Best Publications

  • Contextualizing Entrepreneurship—Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward:

    Friederike Welter

  • A gender‐aware framework for women's entrepreneurship

    Candida G. Brush;Anne de Bruin;Friederike Welter

  • Institutional perspectives on entrepreneurial behavior in challenging environments

    Friederike Welter;David Smallbone

  • Advancing a Framework for Coherent Research on Women's Entrepreneurship:

    Anne De Bruin;Candida G. Brush;Friederike Welter

  • The distinctiveness of entrepreneurship in transition economies

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter

  • Everyday Entrepreneurship—A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity:

    Friederike Welter;Ted Baker;David B. Audretsch;William B. Gartner

  • Introduction to the Special Issue: Towards Building Cumulative Knowledge on Women's Entrepreneurship

    Anne De Bruin;Candida G. Brush;Friederike Welter

  • Extending women’s entrepreneurship research in new directions

    Karen D. Hughes;Jennifer E. Jennings;Candida Brush;Sara Carter

  • Female entrepreneurship in transition economies: the case of Lithuania and Ukraine

    Ruta Aidis;Friederike Welter;David Smallbone;Nina Isakova

  • Institutional Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Behavior in Challenging Environments

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  • A gendered look at entrepreneurship ecosystems

    Candida Brush;Linda F. Edelman;Tatiana Manolova;Friederike Welter

  • The Role of Government in SME Development in Transition Economies

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter

  • Exploring the Role of Trust in Entrepreneurial Activity

    Friederike Welter;David Smallbone

  • All you need is trust? A critical review of the trust and entrepreneurship literature:

    Friederike Welter

  • Three waves and counting: the rising tide of contextualization in entrepreneurship research

    Friederike Welter;Ted Baker;Ted Baker;Katharine Wirsching

  • Gender identities and practices: Interpreting women entrepreneurs’ narratives

    María-Cristina Díaz García;Friederike Welter

  • Conceptualising entrepreneurship in a transition context

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter

  • ‘Surfing on the ironing board’ – the representation of women's entrepreneurship in German newspapers

    Leona Achtenhagen;Friederike Welter

  • The environment for female entrepreneurship in Germany

    Friederike Welter

  • Everyday Entrepreneurship – A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity

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  • A Gendered Look at Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

    Candida G Brush;Linda F. Edelman;Richard T. Harrison;Diana Hechavarria

  • Gender identities and practices : interpreting women entrepreneurs' narratives

    Cristina Diaz Garcia;Friederike Welter

Frequent Co-Authors

David Smallbone
David Smallbone Kingston University
Ted Baker
Ted Baker Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Candida G. Brush
Candida G. Brush Babson College
Sara Carter
Sara Carter University of Glasgow
Teemu Kautonen
Teemu Kautonen Zayed University
William B. Gartner
William B. Gartner Babson College
Colette Henry
Colette Henry Dundalk Institute of Technology
Tatiana S. Manolova
Tatiana S. Manolova Bentley University
Linda F. Edelman
Linda F. Edelman Bentley University
Alain Fayolle
Alain Fayolle IDRAC Business School

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