When entrepreneurs suffer from work-to-family conflict, it can affect firm performance. This article considers how emotional exhaustion experienced in the course of running a business mediates this link and how beliefs about competitive hostility invigorate that effect. Using survey data collected from 200 women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, a country marked by culturally traditional gender role expectations, the empirical findings show that a sense of being emotionally overextended, due to the demands of running a firm, creates a conduit for the negative interference of the family upon the firm. This escalates into diminished firm performance. The results also demonstrate that this conduit is particularly prominent when entrepreneurs feel more threatened by hostile market environments. For entrepreneurship scholarship and practice, this article establishes two notable factors; a feeling of being ‘worn out’ by the business and adverse competitive markets. These factors clarify the complex link between work-induced family strain and business performance for women entrepreneurs, who might be particularly challenged when balancing time demands in gender-discriminatory environments.

当企业家遭受工作与家庭的冲突时，可能会影响公司的业绩。本文考虑了在经营企业的过程中情绪疲惫是如何介导此链接的，以及关于竞争敌对行为的信念如何使这种影响振奋人心。使用从埃塞俄比亚的200个女企业家那里收集的调查数据，埃塞俄比亚是一个具有传统文化性别角色期望的国家，实证研究结果表明，由于经营一家公司的要求，一种在情感上过度扩张的感觉为人们的负面干预创造了渠道。一家人在公司。这会升级为降低公司绩效。结果还表明，当企业家感到受到敌对市场环境的威胁时，这种渠道尤为突出。对于企业家奖学金和实践，本文建立了两个值得注意的因素；被企业和不利的竞争市场“淘汰”的感觉。这些因素阐明了女企业家因工作而造成的家庭压力与企业绩效之间的复杂联系，而在性别歧视的环境中平衡时间需求时，女企业家可能会面临特别的挑战。