The book ?Women Entrepreneurs: Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling,? by Dorothy Moore and Holly Buttner, offers an insightful contribution to our understanding of the experiences, feelings, and perceptions of 129 women business owners who left corporations to start or acquire their own businesses. Data collected from 13 focus groups across the United States yield rich stories illustrating the personal transitions of women who left corporate jobs to become entrepreneurs. These qualitative data are supplemented with surveys, the results of which statistically support the themes derived from the focus groups. In their ensuing discussion, the authors compare ?corporate climbers? and ?intentionalists??the former organizational women who were pushed to entrepreneurship and the latter women who planned to be entrepreneurs.

Dorothy P. Moore and E. Holly Buttner, in their book ‘Women Entrepreneurs: Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling,’ explore the increasingly popular choice of exiting the organization and creating one's own business by examining the occupational transitions of 129 highly accomplished women entrepreneurs from across the United States. Although not intended as a study of the new boundaryless career concept (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996), their book provides a detailed picture of how some individuals are crossing organizational and occupational boundaries and designing careers that better match their own values and needs.