Abstract：Through a meta-analysis with the data of 91 articles including 382 726 samples, we test the entrepreneurial gender gap in entrepreneurial firm performance and its boundary conditions, and potential influencing factors on female entrepreneurs firm performance. We found that compared to the male entrepreneurship, female entrepreneurship is more likely to have poorer firm performance. We also found that this poorer performance could be moderated by the firm size and age, industry category and sociocultural factors. Factors such as education background, marital status of female entrepreneurs, gender equality, and intensity of market competition also influenced the firm performance founded by female entrepreneurs. Our further analysis shows that, compared to other countries and regions, the negative relationship of female entrepreneurship on firm performance has been weakened in China. In addition, the higher the education level of female entrepreneurs in society, the better the gender equality and the higher the intensity of market competition, the great they can improve the performance of female entrepreneurship.
叶竹馨，黄苏逸豪，陈煊. 基于元分析的女性创业企业绩效及其差异性来源研究[J]. 管理学报, 2025, 22(2): 306-.
YE Zhuxin，HUANG Suyihao，CHEN Xuan. A Meta-Analysis Study on the Firm Performance Founded by Female Entrepreneurs and the Sources of Their Differences. Chinese Journal of Management, 2025, 22(2): 306-.
