Senior women managers’ transition to entrepreneurship: Leveraging embedded career capital

摘要: Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations start their own companies. Women's advancement management roles is facilitated by acquisition human capital and social capital. Female ex‐corporate leverage personal accumulations knowledge, skills, relationships networks when starting growing new ventures. A conceptual framework “embedded career capital” accrued during past experiences transferable individuals’ entrepreneurial ventures put forward.Design/methodology/approach Structured, in‐depth interviews with ten female entrepreneurs who recently left positions in large UK corporations support a spectrum from embedded which value‐creating embodied consisting immobile, non‐rent‐generating accumulations.Findings Senior capital”, ...