Understanding Women S Entrepreneurship In A Gendered Context

Author : Shumaila Yousafzai,Alain Fayolle,Saadat Saeed,Colette Henry,Adam Lindgreen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000358216

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Understanding Women's Entrepreneurship in a Gendered Context by Shumaila Yousafzai,Alain Fayolle,Saadat Saeed,Colette Henry,Adam Lindgreen Pdf

Women entrepreneurs are indeed a formidable force of economic growth and social change, though we still often question the "how" and "why." For the readers who seek to understand the spectrum of gender influences in the context of entrepreneurship, Understanding Women’s Entrepreneurship in a Gendered Context: Influences and Restraints widens the contextual focus of women’s entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship research by providing powerful insights into the influences and restraints within a diverse set of gendered contexts including social, political, institutional, religious, patriarchal, cultural, family and economic, in which female entrepreneurs around the world operate their businesses. From recognition of a seventh-century businesswoman in Mecca to the construction of a gendered scientific Business Model Canvas, this collection of studies will inspire readers to think differently about theory, patriarchy, trade systems, adoption or transformation and strategies to create inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems. In doing so, the contributing authors demonstrate not only the importance of studying the contexts in which women’s entrepreneurial activities are shaped, but also how female entrepreneurs, through their endeavours, modify these contexts. This book will be of great value to scholars, students and researchers interested in women’s entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems, gender hierarchy and the transition to gender equality. It was originally published as a special issue of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.

Author : Shumaila Y. Yousafzi,Adam Lindgreen,Saadat Saeed,Colette Henry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317160205

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Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship by Shumaila Y. Yousafzi,Adam Lindgreen,Saadat Saeed,Colette Henry Pdf

Contextual Embeddedness of Women’s Entrepreneurship brings together a range of research that provides powerful insights into the influences and restraints within a diverse set of gendered contexts including social, political, institutional, religious, patriarchal, cultural, family, and economic, in which female entrepreneurs around the world operate their businesses. In doing so, the contributing authors demonstrate not only the importance of studying the contexts in how they shape women’s entrepreneurial activities, but also how female entrepreneurs through their endeavours modify these contexts. Collectively, the edited collection’s studies make a substantial contribution to the contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurial activity, provide numerous insights, and provoke fruitful directions for future research on the important role of the contexts in which women’s entrepreneurial activities take place. This innovative and wide-ranging research anthology seeks to reframe and redirect research on gender and entrepreneurship and will appeal to all those interested in learning more about female entrepreneurship.

Author : Guelich, Ulrike,Bullough, Amanda,Manolova, Tatiana S.,Schjoedt, Leon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789905045

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Women’s Entrepreneurship and Culture by Guelich, Ulrike,Bullough, Amanda,Manolova, Tatiana S.,Schjoedt, Leon Pdf

Women’s entrepreneurship is an effective way to combat poverty, hunger and disease, to stimulate sustainable business practices, and to promote gender equality. Yet, deeply engrained cultural norms often prescribe gender-specific roles and behaviors that severely constrain the opportunities for women’s entrepreneurial activities. This excellent new volume of work from the Diana Group explores this paradox.

Author : Cristina Díaz-García,Candida G. Brush,Elizabeth J. Gatewood,Friederike Welter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784717421

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Women’s Entrepreneurship in Global and Local Contexts by Cristina Díaz-García,Candida G. Brush,Elizabeth J. Gatewood,Friederike Welter Pdf

Written by leading scholars from a wide range of countries, this book advances the understanding of women's entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the contexts in which they operate. With its impact on gendered institutions and gendered social forces, it will be of interest for researchers, faculty and students as well as policy-makers and practitioners. It is the fifth in the series of books produced in partnership with the Diana International Research Network.

Author : Candida G. Brush,Anne de Bruin,Elizabeth J. Gatewood,Colette Henry
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849806633

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Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth by Candida G. Brush,Anne de Bruin,Elizabeth J. Gatewood,Colette Henry Pdf

Women's entrepreneurship research and the understanding of factors influencing the growth of women-owned business advanced significantly over the last decade. Yet, challenges remain. Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth provides wide-ranging insights on the challenges women entrepreneurs face growing their businesses and how these may be addressed. This volume is rooted in research and considers growth challenges both contextually and firm specific, provoking current thought and enriching the current literature on gender and entrepreneurship. Part one highlights how contextual factors, and especially social and familial settings of entrepreneurs, have a differential impact on men and women. Part two examines strategies, constraints and enablers of growth and performance. The authors aptly demonstrate that a well-focused gender lens is necessary to better explain the phenomenon of women's entrepreneurship. Extending previous studies about women's entrepreneurship, this volume is unique in its application of research from the Diana Project, a path breaking initiative dating from 1999 to study female entrepreneurial success. Contributions from an international cast of authors make this a comprehensive and broadly appealing reference work.

Author : Shumaila Yousafzai,Alain Fayolle,Adam Lindgreen,Colette Henry,Saadat Saeed,Shandana Sheikh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786434500

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Women Entrepreneurs and the Myth of ‘Underperformance’ by Shumaila Yousafzai,Alain Fayolle,Adam Lindgreen,Colette Henry,Saadat Saeed,Shandana Sheikh Pdf

Author : Karen D. Hughes,Jennifer E. Jennings
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849804752

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Global Women's Entrepreneurship Research by Karen D. Hughes,Jennifer E. Jennings Pdf

Global Women's Entrepreneurship Research responds to recent calls from academic researchers and policy analysts alike to pay greater attention to the diversity and heterogeneity among women entrepreneurs. Drawing together studies by 26 researchers affiliated with the DIANA International Research Network, this collection contributes to a richer and more robust understanding of the field. Part I: 'Diverse Settings' introduces research set in a range of contexts, from those rarely examined to those representing more familiar terrains. Part II: 'Diverse Questions' explores new questions and reframes old questions in fresh, innovative ways. Part III: 'Diverse Approaches' features studies with distinct methodological approaches that reflect and extend the rigour and creativity of research in this field. Together, the research assembled in this volume significantly advances knowledge about women's entrepreneurship around the world. While the book's primary audience is academic researchers and graduate students working in the areas of women's entrepreneurship, as well as entrepreneurship and family business more generally, it will also be of interest to scholars working in related research areas in the sociology of gender, work and organizations. Policy-makers in government and non-government agencies as well as profit and not-for-profit organizations that provide services to, or conduct research on, women entrepreneurs will also benefit greatly from the insights provided in this unique volume.

Author : Banu Ozkazanc-Pan,Susan Clark Muntean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781316519431

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems by Banu Ozkazanc-Pan,Susan Clark Muntean Pdf

Analyzes entrepreneurial ecosystems though the lens of gender to identify myriad individual, organizational, and institutional factors that create gendered inequities.

Author : Iiris Aaltio-Marjosola,Paula Kyrö,Elisabeth Sundin
Publisher : Copenhagen Business School Press DK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8763002108

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Women Entrepreneurship and Social Capital by Iiris Aaltio-Marjosola,Paula Kyrö,Elisabeth Sundin Pdf

Human resources are the social capital of a firm or business, based on trust as well as on expertise, values, and cultural diversity. This calls for cross-cultural knowledge - an understanding of gender issues and individual differences in the social capital of the firm and society. The dialogue between women entrepreneurship and social capital theory/ research strengthens the fragmented voice of women entrepreneurship, providing the landscape for women entrepreneurs as creators of, and created by, social capital. It indicates how women entrepreneurs appear to have a special position in forming, developing, and reorganizing the social capital in the business world. This book explores social capital in the multiple relationships between gender, management, and entrepreneurship. Twenty-six researchers, representing a variety of disciplines from different parts of the world, provide findings on diverse aspects of the dialogue between women entrepreneurship and social capital. As a consequence, the central concepts - social capital, entrepreneurship, and gender - are given a variety of meanings. Women entrepreneurs and business owners - regardless of their cultural context, branch, and education - provide interesting ideas to the global debate on equality and social capital.

Author : Gry Agnete Alsos,Ulla Hytti,Elisabet Ljunggren
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783478132

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Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation by Gry Agnete Alsos,Ulla Hytti,Elisabet Ljunggren Pdf

Innovation is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth creating prosperous nations and enabling technological development within industries and sectors This Handbook contributes to the field of innovation by providing a wide range of studies fro

Author : Paola Paoloni,Rosa Lombardi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030468743

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Gender Studies, Entrepreneurship and Human Capital by Paola Paoloni,Rosa Lombardi Pdf

In today’s climate, academics, professional community and policy makers all have input in critical gender issues, as well as in the entrepreneurship and human capital issues. Various gender issues are published involving many scientific fields, including business, management and accounting research. Presenting the topic of gender issues, entrepreneurship and human capital, this book collects the main output of the researches presented at the Annual Workshop of IPAZIA 2019 of Rome in Italy. The authors provide a renewed and fruitful analysis of these topics, with the purpose of advancing the gender theories in the international context.

Author : Maura McAdam,James Cunningham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000373592

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Women and Global Entrepreneurship by Maura McAdam,James Cunningham Pdf

Entrepreneurship in context has been described as the third wave in entrepreneurship research. Accordingly, specific socio-economic, political, market, and institutional contexts are key to fostering, enabling, and enacting entrepreneurial activity and behaviours. These contexts shape everyday entrepreneurship experiences. This book is based on the premise that how gender is articulated within the entrepreneurial debate has to acknowledge context. However, context is not a construct that only applies to those economies and situations that differ from the presumed norm of Western developed nations. Adopting a more critical appraisal of how context is positioned within current theorizing around gender and entrepreneurial behaviours offers potential to progress debate whilst acknowledging that competing and contrasting contextual influences require clearer recognition. This book, therefore, has the potential to unearth credible and robust approaches to further examining contextualisation and women entrepreneurship that advances new insights. By exploring and examining how contextual influences shape women’s entrepreneurship, this book challenges the assumption that women entrepreneurship is the same throughout the world. It will be of value to researchers, academics, and students with an interest in entrepreneurship, political economy, economics, and public policy.

Author : Michael Z. Ngoasong
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800885868

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Women’s Entrepreneurial Journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa by Michael Z. Ngoasong Pdf

This innovative book traces women’s entrepreneurial journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa, examining the linkages between entrepreneurship, gender and development context. With extensive case studies of women’s experiences across the enterprise life-cycle, it gives new insight into how to support and empower Sub-Saharan African female entrepreneurs.

Author : Miguel-Angel Galindo,Domingo Ribeiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1461412935

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Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics by Miguel-Angel Galindo,Domingo Ribeiro Pdf

Over the past century, an extensive literature has developed, exploring the impact of entrepreneurship on economic performance. The active participation of entrepreneurs in virtually all aspects of business and economic activity has obliged policy makers within the global economy to consider entrepreneurship as a determining variable in any political force, not only for bodies and groups created specifically to this end, but also for any decision-making body. To this end, specific actions promoting entrepreneurship have already been established around the world. However, the particular dynamics of entrepreneurship by women present unique opportunities and challenges. The women’s perspective has often been overlooked in research, practice, and policymaking, and yet yields rich insights and implications. This volume features research from an international array of authors, global data, and in-depth analysis of women’s entrepreneurial activity in Europe, Latin America, the United States, and Canada, to shed light on the positive impact of women’s entrepreneurship on economic growth and development. The first part covers a broad range of concepts relating to the history and context of the female economic perspective. The second part focuses on performance and success factors, with respect to such issues as innovation, social needs, and entrepreneurial orientation. The third part addresses issues of financing, including discussion of access to capital, microcredit, and entrepreneurial behavior. The fourth part considers additional topics, such as work-family balance and access to education. Together, the chapters offer new perspectives on the unique characteristics of women entrepreneurs and their contributions to economic development in theory, practice, and policymaking.

Author : Attila Bruni,Silvia Gherardi,Barbara Poggio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134262885

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Gender and Entrepreneurship by Attila Bruni,Silvia Gherardi,Barbara Poggio Pdf

Entrepreneurship can be read as a cultural and economic phenomenon. In recent times, gender has become an increasing influence on entrepreneurship. This groundbreaking new study considers both gender and entrepreneurship as symbolic forms, looking at their diverse patterns and social representation. Presenting an ethnographic study of the gender st