Ricerc@Sapienza

This paper aims at unveiling the work-family conflict construct
experienced by women entrepreneurs, by testing an all-inclusive model that
considers work and family antecedents and consequences of WFC. The study is
grounded on Europe and data from 511 Italian women entrepreneurs have
been collected mailing a survey of 45 multiple choice questions. Opposing
arguments either for the within and cross-domain hypotheses in relation to
antecedents, or for the matching and cross-domain hypotheses in relation to the
WFC consequences faced by women entrepreneurs have been tested. Findings
show that the within-domain hypothesis is supported in relation to the
antecedents as well as the matching and the cross-domain hypothesis in relation
to the consequences. The contribution of this work is twofold: it enhances the
understanding of women entrepreneurs’ WFC; and it enriches the still limited
and ‘US centric’ academic literature on the issue by analysing data collected in
South Europe.