Self-Tracking ist mittlerweile in alle Bereiche des persönlichen Lebens vorgedrungen. Mithilfe von Wearables wie Aktivitätstrackern und anderen Smart Devices wie Smart Glasses sowie Apps werden Daten über die eigene Person aufgezeichnet. Dabei werden zum Beispiel sportliche Aktivitäten, Ernährung, Stimmung und physische Daten dokumentiert. In dieser Arbeit werden – auf Basis aktueller Marktforschungs-Methoden sowie einer Markt- und Wettbewerbsanalyse – im Rahmen von Experteninterviews mögliche Einsatzbereiche von Self-Tracking in der qualitativen Marktforschung diskutiert. Es wird beurteilt, welchen Nutzen Self-Tracking für Werbeforschung, ethnografische Forschung, Customer Experience-Forschung und Mystery Shopping bringt und inwiefern es bestehende Methoden ergänzen oder ersetzen kann.
Relevance: Political and private initiatives call for more female founders in start-ups as well as entrepreneurship but with regard to academic research not many studies focused yet on interdisciplinary studies on especially female start-up founders. There is more need to understand the topic to further encourage female founders.
Research question: The research question of this thesis is analysing what kind of patterns can be seen in the entrepreneurial, sociocultural and psychological profile of female founders compared in start-up ecosystems of three different countries, namely Germany, France and Israel?
Approach: I conducted 21 interviews, seven for each city, with a semi-structured guideline focusing on the entrepreneurial, sociocultural and psychological profile. The interviews were transcribed and afterwards analysed by combining the different profiles to find possible patterns. In a final step the observations from each country were compared to one another.
Findings: There are several possible patterns for each country evident. However, a cross-cultural comparison was made difficult by the heterogeneous groups of respondents. It was nevertheless possible to conclude on four crosscultural hypotheses: 1) Female entrepreneurs prefer to work first before starting their own business; 2) The female entrepreneurial profile is risk-taking, purpose-driven, innovative and autonomous; 3) Immigration has a positive effect on the intention to start a business; 4) The majority of female entrepreneurs have a higher education and come from a middle to upper social class.