This research addresses the impact of the remarkable rise in populism on innovative new ventures. Integrating institutional theory with gender role congruity theory, we reason that the surge of populist discourse by a nation's top political leaders decreases the innovativeness of new ventures, and this negative relationship is more pronounced for women entrepreneurs. We also consider two critical yet overlooked institutions, gender inequality and grammatical gender marking in the dominant languages that entrepreneurs speak, and propose that they reinforce this negative relationship. Data from 69,406 observations of entrepreneurs across 40 countries during the period of 2005–2018, analyzed with a difference-in-differences (DiD) design, support our hypotheses. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed for the challenges of promoting innovation among women entrepreneurs, in countries with greater gender inequality and where the dominant language exhibits greater intensity of grammatical gender marking, with populism on the rise worldwide.

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民粹主义对创新的性别影响


这项研究探讨了民粹主义显着崛起对创新企业的影响。将制度理论与性别角色一致性理论相结合，我们得出的结论是，一个国家最高政治领导人的民粹主义言论的激增会降低新企业的创新性，而这种负相关关系对于女性企业家来说更为明显。我们还考虑了两个重要但被忽视的制度，即性别不平等和企业家使用的主导语言中的语法性别标记，并建议它们强化这种负面关系。 2005 年至 2018 年期间对 40 个国家的企业家进行 69,406 次观察的数据，采用双重差分 (DiD) 设计进行分析，支持了我们的假设。讨论了在性别不平等加剧、主流语言表现出更强烈的语法性别标记以及全球民粹主义抬头的国家中，促进女企业家创新所面临的挑战的理论和政策影响。