the moderating role of gender on relation between entrepreneurial capital and opportunity recognition

Know about opportunity recognition and implementation is very important in entrepreneur's success and opportunity recognition is one of the main issue in entrepreneurship research. One of the most important factors influencing process of opportunity recognition is entrepreneurial capital including economical capital, social capital and human capital. The aim of this paper is to analyze the moderating role of gender in relation between entrepreneurial capital and opportunity recognition by a descriptive survey research method. We choose the tourism businesses as research context because of the potential of entrepreneurial opportunities in this sector. The research sample was selected from 210 members of tourism association that have experience in business management or business creation (110 people). Due to the small number of samples, data was gathered form all 110 people by questionnare. Data analysis on 82 questionnaires by PLS software show that gender has the moderating role on relation between social capital and opportunity recognition. Also, gender has moderation role on relation between human capital and opportunity recognition, while has no effect on relation between economical capital and opportunity recognition. These results could help policy makers in women's entrepreneurship development in tourism business sector.