... 2026 28 06 2026 07 08 2026 20 08 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Women entrepreneurship Agency Relational-temporal framework Polycrisis context Gender Lebanon Lebanon's entrepreneurial legacy...

... implications for developing resource-enhancing interventions and support systems to improve the well-being of women entrepreneurs with diverse caregiving roles. Research on women's entrepreneurship has long been shaped by a male-normative understanding of entrepreneurship (Ahl, 2005 ; Thébaud, 2015...

... Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Women entrepreneurship Financial exclusion Credit access Family enterprise Informal financial systems Women frequently experience unique challenges while accessing formal credit supports (Beck et al., 2018...

...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...

... and mobilise resources. Women-only business networks Mixed-gender business networks Embeddedness Women entrepreneurship Saskia Stoker can be contacted at: s.stoker@hva.nl 06 01 2025 26 03 2025 30 04 2025 © Saskia Stoker, Burcu Kör, Juanfra Alvarado Valenzuela and Ingrid...

..., 2021) seems to have created gender blindness and turned masculine norms into universal ones (Bruni et al., 2004). In this respect, Ahl (2006 , p. 595) argues that “research articles on women’s entrepreneurship reveal … a tendency to recreate the idea of women as being secondary to men...

... these women’s entrepreneurship. By reflecting on three different ways of identity work through a postfeminist lens, we show how these women are interpellated by postfeminist discourses when trying to gain legitimacy. Research limitations/implications The rather small sample does not allow us to generalise...

... a gendered phenomenon. Due to the limited number of women entrepreneurs in STEM and the difficulty of accessing them for research purposes, previous studies on women’s entrepreneurship in STEM have primarily been conducted in business incubation contexts and various fields of technology (Treanor, 2022...

...Laura H. Koch; Andreas Kuckertz Purpose This study scrutinizes the evolution of thematic directions in the domain of growth-oriented women entrepreneurship research over the past two decades. Furthermore, it explores the implications of this evolution for future research and practical endeavors...

... superdiversity into social interactions across barriers of difference. We speak to the field of women entrepreneurship studies but specifically to the understudied realm of women-led food entrepreneurship, and to the cross-disciplinary field of (im)migrant entrepreneurship. 08 08 2023 09 01 2024 21...

... Quality List (ABDC JQL) were included in the final SLR list. Originality/value This is one of the first studies to use a systematic approach to provide a detailed account of the state of the literature on women's entrepreneurship research in India. Women entrepreneurs Women entrepreneurship...

... a liberating force to gain autonomy and independence from the constraining ties of their collectives (e.g. family, tribe, clan) as a precursor to successfully pursue entrepreneurial venturing (Ojediran and Anderson, 2020). This perspective, however, ignores the embeddedness of women's entrepreneurship in its...

... This study reveals that although microfinance services promote women entrepreneurship, they also exacerbate exclusion and further discrimination. Individual-, household-, institutional- and community-level structures shape women’s agencies to access and use loans and conduct entrepreneurial activities; hence...

... is structured as follows. The next section provides the foundation of the present review followed by the methodology section. After the methodology section, the literature review is presented. The paper analyzes previous studies that report on women's entrepreneurship and the influence on ethnic background...

... limited hours. Women’s empowerment is a procedural social and personal change based on intertwined political, social, economic and psychological domains. Through these domains, women gain power and control over their decisions (Debnath et al., 2020). Women entrepreneurship facilitates...

...Mohammed Abdul Imran Abdul Aziz Khan Purpose Women entrepreneurship is the fundamental carter of economic development. This study aims to identify the dynamics that encourage entrepreneurial attitudes among women in MENA countries. More precisely, it required to scrutinize the role...

... the situation of women entrepreneurs in this country. The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution of women entrepreneurship in Bahrain, a country in the midst of high transition. The research question is: How do Bahraini women cope with the evolution of their environment? And how far are they keen...

... ”, Venture Capital , Vol. 8 No. 1 , pp. 15 - 31 . Brush , C.G. , de Bruin , A. and Welter , F. (2009), “ A gender-aware framework for women’s entrepreneurship ”, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship , Vol. 1 No. 1 , pp. 8 - 24 . Carter , S...

...-use rights only Psychological capital Human capital Entrepreneurial alertness Social capital Job complexity Women entrepreneurship Many scholars have agreed that opportunity recognition stands at the heart of the entrepreneurship field (Short et al., 2010 ; Shane, 2012...

... personal initiatives, thereby leading to more formal entrepreneurial actions. Originality/value This study is a significant addition to women entrepreneurship literature because the role of culture in females’ intention to participate in entrepreneurship is generally an under-researched area. Besides...