The long run gender origins of entrepreneurship (Churchill et al 2025) | FT50 JBV

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🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit!

💥 Strap in, knowledge-seekers, because today we’re cracking open a time capsule that starts in Australia’s rough-and-tumble convict colonies and lands right on the desk of modern-day entrepreneurs.

👉 Picture this: 19th-century New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, where men outnumbered women by the boatload. Fast-forward to 2025 and you’ll discover those lopsided sex ratios still echo in who starts businesses and why.

📜 In their forthcoming Journal of Business Venturing article—yes, that’s an FT50 heavyweight—researchers Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Simon Chang, Russell Smyth, and Trong-Anh Trinh trace how gender-skewed convict days imprinted cultural norms that still nudge Aussie men toward entrepreneurship. Family dinner-table stories, playground chatter, even neighborhood folklore… it all keeps the entrepreneurial flame burning. 🔥

So rev up your curiosity engines as we ask:

❓ If ghosts of a gender-imbalanced past still shape today’s start-up landscape, what other hidden histories are steering our economic future?

🙏 Huge thanks to the authors and to Elsevier for publishing this provocative work in such a prestigious journal.

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Reference

Churchill, S. A., Chang, S., Smyth, R., & Trinh, T.-A. (2025). The long run gender origins of entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australia’s convict history. Journal of Business Venturing, 40(6), 106539–106539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2025.106539

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