Gender Characterizations in Entrepreneurship: A Multi‐Level Investigation of Sex‐Role Stereotypes about High‐Growth, Commercial, and Social EntrepreneursFootnote^*

* Prior versions of this paper were presented at the Diana International Entrepreneurship Research Conference and the Binghamton University Sustainable Communities Trans‐disciplinary Areas of Excellence Conference. Constructive comments from the special issue editor Diana Hechavarría and the anonymous reviewers were very helpful and greatly help improve the manuscript. Of course, all errors and omissions remain our own.

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