Female Entrepreneurship in Sweden – Motivations to Start a Business

Sammanfattning: This research lies within the field of female entrepreneurship in the Swedish business environment and more particularly in the region of Stockholm and Uppsala. It aims to investigate and analyze the motivations of female entrepreneurs in creating their own business. In order to answer our research question, we conducted a qualitative analysis with 10 in depth interviews to obtain rich and relevant to our research data. Regarding the findings, we sorted out our data using an inductive approach and identified themes that allowed us to extract results that respond our research question. More specifically, we found that women are motivated to become entrepreneurs by their desire to evoke change and build something on their own. Their risk-taking propensity and faith to themselves along with the support they receive from their families affects positively their decision to start their business.