Work-family interface experiences and coping strategies: Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice

The entrepreneurship literature has been criticized for providing inadequate accounts of business owners’ actual experiences and challenges. Work-family interface (WFI) considerations in particular are noticeably absent from much theorizing and research–despite the importance of such considerations to entrepreneurs themselves. We demonstrate how constructs from the WFI literature can help address an important entrepreneurship question that has not been answered satisfactorily to date: Why is there a persistent performance differential between male-headed and female-headed firms’