...Samia Mahmood; Seemab Ara Farooqi Purpose This study investigates how regulatory, normative and cognitive systems intertwine and influence women’s entrepreneurial activities in Pakistan. It employs a gender-sensitive lens to examine this complex interplay, focusing on women entrepreneurs who...

... commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Gender stereotypes Gender bias Entrepreneurship education Women entrepreneurs...

... association and the other is a community leader (local council chairperson). The Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association from which majority of the participants attained entrepreneurial training served as an access route, however, the rest of the participants were contacted through snowballing. Developing...

...Albena Pergelova; Vesna Mandakovic Purpose This study takes an “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective to study entrepreneurs defined as “others” on multiple categories: women entrepreneurs whose ventures are necessity-based, bootstrapped and located in economically impoverished areas...

... this variation through the idea of shared societal mental models. We suggest that the variation in gender ideologies linked to gender (in)equality could better explain the variation of contextual motivations among women entrepreneurs across countries. Research acknowledges that “the rules of the game” might...

...” and unravels how family context, customary practices, poverty and, rural-urban and formal/informal divide, significantly shape and interact with African women entrepreneurs’ enterprising experience and firm performance. Practical implications The findings and analyses indicate that any initiatives...

... to the study of policy implementation through examination of the UK’s Phoenix Development Fund (1999–2008). It analyses a wide range of secondary sources to examine 34 projects funded and supported by the Phoenix Development Fund that targeted women entrepreneurs. Findings Potentially conflicting...

...Nirjhar Nigam; Khodor Shatila Purpose Entrepreneurship institutions exhibit substantial gender discrimination despite worldwide efforts to decrease the phenomenon. The MENA area has a low percentage of women entrepreneurs since little is known about women’s desire to start their businesses...

...-structured interviews with women entrepreneurs located in the United Arab Emirates to understand their entrepreneurial experiences and how they were empowered. Findings Findings suggest that the three aspects of power characterized as “positive” from within Rowlands’ distinctions (“power to”, “power...

... of research. H1. Female participants assigned to the successful women entrepreneurs' condition will present greater entrepreneurial intention (vs participants assigned to the successful entrepreneurs – no-gender-mention – or successful men entrepreneurs...

... women entrepreneurs to subvert and challenge a highly masculinized context. This condition empowers them to mobilize their “otherness” to create change within their own ventures and make the rules on their own terms. Originality/value This interdisciplinary research deepens the understanding...

.... Women's agency proves paramount in making these processes possible and helping her achieve personal and professional fulfillment. In prior studies, women entrepreneurs have mostly been observed at a specific time or stage in their life and entrepreneurial experience. This paper responds to the call...

...Anna Karin Olsson; Iréne Bernhard Purpose This study aims to explore how women entrepreneurs in small businesses encounter digitalization and learn to use social media at work by combining theoretical perspectives from research on women entrepreneurs in small businesses, digitalization and use...

... intention Theory of planned behaviour Women entrepreneurs Muslim marriages Business growth The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of Muslim society marriages – forced, arranged or marriages of choice/love, on women entrepreneurial intentions (EI), with reference to Ajzen’s...

...Huriye Yeröz Purpose While migrant women entrepreneurs (MWE) have been studied extensively through the lenses of gender and ethnicity, social class, as an axis of difference, received scant attention in entrepreneurship and migrant enterprise literature. The purpose of this paper is to make...

... for future gender, disability and entrepreneurship research by outlining research questions for each synergy and variance which draw attention to disabled women entrepreneurs’ experiences of choice and control within and across different spaces and processes of entrepreneuring. Dr Nicola...

... a prominent place in Morocco, directly influencing women’s activities. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of family in Moroccan women’s entrepreneurial success. The qualitative research is based on 60 interviews with women entrepreneurs in Morocco, including women business owners...

... The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the developing literature on entrepreneurship and identity by exploring the multidimensionality of older (50+) British women entrepreneurs’ identity. By using positionality as a lens, greater insight into the complexity of the lived multiple identities of older...

..., networks of entrepreneurial women. The findings stress that, through the formalization of networks, women can gain more advantages, namely, sharing knowledge and experiences, increasing their level of internationalization, and expanding their networks. Women entrepreneurs Networks Networking...

... women entrepreneurs (Ahl and Nelson, 2010 ; Greene et al., 2003). As Jennings and Brush (2013 , p. 698) point out, “the proportion of women’s entrepreneurship research published within top-tier journals has steadily declined since the mid-1990s.” These authors challenge researchers to expand...