... of the government, role models, the entrepreneurial training and women’s demographic characteristics in encouraging women to embrace entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on primary data, where data were gathered from a sample of 300 women from MENA countries through a self...

...Jamel Choukir; Wassim J. Aloulou; Faouzi Ayadi; Slim Mseddi Purpose There have been few investigations regarding the relationship of gender and role models with students’ entrepreneurial intention (EI). The purpose of this study is to apply a conceptual framework to explain the relationship...

... in India. Findings Cooperative form of entrepreneurship and sisterhood among its members provides an environment for repeated affective experiences that inspire women to change the status quo. Sisterhood facilitates interactions with role models, mentee-driven mentoring and vicarious incentives, each...

... for the relationship between vicarious experience and self-efficacy. For example, Scherer et al. (1989) established early on that the presence of a parental entrepreneurial role model tends to be associated with increased expectancy for an entrepreneurial career. More recently, BarNir et al. (2011...

... of women's entrepreneurship. Concepts such as stereotypes, stereotype threat and role models are introduced. Second, the authors instantiate how the social psychology experimental method can address core questions in the women's entrepreneurship field, such as women's under‐representation in entrepreneurial...