Ricerc@Sapienza

This paper aims at analysing women’s business around Europe and Extra-Europe countries to draw the current
scenario and to create a theoretical background to investigate in our future research which is the contribution of relational
dimension as intangible asset to the born of small and medium women’s businesses. Building similarities, differences and
changes, this analysis has been conducted in Southern European Country (Italy), Nordic country (Finland) and Southerneastern
Balkan country (Serbia) and in a relevant country not included in the European Union. Theoretical and practical
implications of this paper derive from the central rule of female entrepreneurship in developing welfare and economies.