...Yanying Chen; Zijie Song; Hang Zhu Purpose This study aims to examine whether gender dynamics vary across two distinct stages of entrepreneurial decision-making: opportunity identification and exploitation intention. Given the masculine stereotype of entrepreneurship and the socially evaluative...

...Jean Francky Landry Ngono Purpose In this study, we examine how the impact of security crises on the vulnerability of female entrepreneurship varies according to the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) in sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach Using data...

... The study contributes to entrepreneurship and gender research by offering a process-based explanation of women's entrepreneurial empowerment in fragile institutional contexts. By conceptualising empowerment as an empowerment–disempowerment cycle, the study uses institutional theory and liberal feminist...

...Anna-Katharina Schaper; Kerstin Ettl Purpose To advance women's entrepreneurship research, scholars require a clearer understanding of how, and where, researchers have applied the field's critical theoretical frameworks, as well as how extant studies have shaped the development of the frameworks...

...Peter Chakaniza; Abdul Latif Alhassan; Bomikazi Zeka Purpose Although remittances are acknowledged as foreign capital for African nations, their potential to foster entrepreneurship is underestimated. This is particularly the case when accounting for gender dynamics in entrepreneurship, which...

... framework. The primary data from 315 Lithuanian women was processed using structural equation modelling technique. Findings It was revealed that mompreneurship is a distinct form of entrepreneurship, as it is primarily driven by extrinsic motivators such as societal support, family support and gender...

...Ahsan Habib; Thomas Cooney Purpose This study explores how entrepreneurship education (EE) can be structured to support the personal and professional development of people with disabilities (PWDs), with a focus on gender-specific pathways. It examines how men and women with disabilities adopt...

...Irene Campos-García Purpose Previous research has shown that entrepreneurship is an emotional journey that includes many moments of positive and negative well-being and female entrepreneurs, due to some individual and/or cultural differences and determinants, may be more likely than men to exhibit...

...Tékam Oumbé Honoré; Njang Gladys Che; Pilag Kakeu Charles Bertin; Miamo Wendji Clovis Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the natural resources curse on entrepreneurship by putting gender on the agenda and verifying the Kuznets relationship. Indeed, until now...

...Colleen C. Robb; Jill Kickul; Katrina M. Brownell; Daniel Veidlinger Purpose Despite the rapid growth of women in entrepreneurship and the economic importance of female entrepreneurs, there remains a substantial gender gap in entrepreneurship. We theorize that this disparity may stem from how...

..., this new business environment offers rules more aligned with their aspirations, leading women to develop internal motivations for persisting in entrepreneurship. Originality/value This study expands the knowledge in feminist literature that investigates the motivations of women entrepreneurs...

... crisis. By highlighting the essential role of care work in both business resilience and familial well-being, the research challenges traditional views of entrepreneurship and offers new insights into the relationship between gender, affective labor and crisis management, showing how these overlooked...

...Carolina Gallo Garcia; Lara Gautier; Marie-Jeanne Blain Purpose This article provides a narrative review of recent research on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrant women in Canada. The aim was to identify the state-of-the-art, current trends and findings in existing literature...

.../approach Our study conducts a three-stage dramaturgical analysis of the major film adaptations of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka (1971, 2005 and 2023). After supplementing the limited literature on boyhood in entrepreneurship with literary and feminist art theory, we identify the significant narrative features...

... dimensions, we gained insights into the nuances and paradoxes of dominant assumptions related to how digital technologies influence the business transformation of female entrepreneurship as it relates to sustainability, hope, empowerment, resilience and optimism. Through a contextual gendered lens...

... of venture accelerators by examining how they perpetuate and reinforce traditional masculine norms, even in environments that strive for diversity. Entrepreneurship is enacted as a masculine domain that reinforces masculinised practices of entrepreneurship (Ahl and Marlow, 2012 ; Marlow and Martinez Dy...

...Katrina Brownell; Jill Kickul; Diana Hechavarria Purpose Our study draws on gender role congruity theory to theorize and test an integrative conceptual model outlining how motives for entrepreneurial action explain the relationship between female entrepreneurship and innovation in nascent ventures...

... or weaken the connections between entrepreneurship and society, considering gender differences. Design/methodology/approach We employ individual-level data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the UK Longitudinal Study (UKLS) to assess changes in entrepreneurs' social engagement during...

...Elise Stephenson; Sarah Furman Purpose This paper aims to explore synergies between feminist, first nations and queer theories and social, circular and climate entrepreneurship, to build a framework for supporting climate just entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws...

... in Ireland and three in the UK) and employs the theoretical lens of translocational positionality to analyse entrepreneurship as context-specific and relational processes that bring together a multiplicity of social and geographical locales. Findings Latin American women entrepreneurs navigate...