... publication and authors. The full terms of this licence maybe seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence. Gender Start-ups Women entrepreneurs Female entrepreneurs Systematic literature review While entrepreneurship in general has been recognized as a crucial factor for economic...

... and risks, sources of funding and success of their social ventures. Women Social impact Developed economies Emerging economies Social entrepreneurship Gender Sustainability Social enterprises play a transformational role in addressing grave environmental and social challenges by implementing...

...Bastian Burger; Sascha Kraus; Thomas K. Maran; Dominik K. Kanbach Purpose This study aims to investigate the association between narcissistic tendencies, gender and funding success in high-growth start-ups. It aims to bridge a critical research gap by exploring the combined effect of gender...

... interventions and policies are essential for inclusive growth and gender equality in entrepreneurship. Originality/value This paper offers a unique perspective by focusing on rural women entrepreneurs in Lebanon, exploring their specific challenges within the country's socioeconomic landscape. Its...

...Abdullah M. Aljarodi; Tojo Thatchenkery; David Urbano Purpose To date, few studies have incorporated female entrepreneurship into the context of a country that relies heavily on natural resources and still has a wide gender gap due to historically established cultural norms. This study aims...

... Gender Fuzzy Cluster analysis Despite numerous attempts to reconcile economic growth with sustainable development, economic growth was notoriously given priority in economic policies, while the environment was looked upon from a separate rather than interconnected perspective (Giddings et...

...Maheshkumar P. Joshi; Deepak Pandit; Shalini Rahul Tiwari; Archana Choudhary Purpose Using the extant literature review, this paper aims to explore the relationship between gender, entrepreneurial education (EE) and entrepreneurial intention (EI) in the Indian context, which the authors believe...

... approaches to studying women's entrepreneurship in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and identify the key socio-cultural factors impacting women's entrepreneurial realities. Findings It was found that gender roles, family influence, social networking and religion are among the most significant factors...

... implications This suggest that the underlining causes of gender inequality in rural labour markets are institutional, including both social norms and the structure of labour market organizations, and can be holistically tackled through CSR programmes, government policies and building the strength of women...

...Edwina Pio; Shailendra Vyakarnam; Shima Barakat; Margaret McCammon Purpose The purpose of this study is to discuss how ethnicity and gender influence high-tech entrepreneurship in the Cambridge cluster emphasizing homophily and how and why bridging and bonding ties are created in moving...

... economies because of progressive policies and shifts in attitudes towards gender roles. In the light of this, studies have also brought to the fore, the experiences women face in these male-dominated occupations. Campuzano (2019) noted heightened cases of sexual harassment, which was in consistency...

... feminist action. Design/methodology/approach This paper analysed interviews conducted in the two countries over 15 years, using a holistic perspective on context, including its gendered dimensions. Findings The results amount to a critique of entrepreneurialism. Women in Sweden did not experience...

...Malin Tillmar; Helene Ahl; Karin Berglund; Katarina Pettersson Purpose Contrasting two countries with different gender regimes and welfare states, Sweden and Tanzania, this paper aims to analyse how the institutional context affects the ways in which a neo-liberal reform agenda is translated...

..., as it is essentially cross-sectional, describing and interpreting the current situation. A total 800 respondents were sampled across the coastal communities of the Niger Delta region. Findings The results from the use of a combined propensity score matching and logit model indicate that the GMoU model is gender...

... Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Gender Marketing Women SDGs Broom production Small scale businesses The palm tree is a versatile tree that meets man’s needs in every part of the world where it grows. There is no tree which in itself has so...

... by government policies and growth platforms and increased the importance of startup accelerators/incubators (NASSCOM Report, 2015). While the statistics for the ecosystem as a whole present a rosy picture, the situation is not as bright when one focuses on the gender composition of the environment. As per...

..., alternative conceptualisations of the economy are expanded upon to reveal how an economic externality influences entrepreneurial discourse, gender roles and community resilience. Design/methodology/approach In this interpretive approach, empirical evidence is drawn from six months of intensive...

...Prof. Elisabet Ljunggren and Prof. Elisabeth Sundin; Elisabet Ljunggren; Elisabeth Sundin Purpose – This paper introduces the special issue’s six articles with different approaches to investigating gender perspectives on enterprising communities. The papers’ approaches are presented and discussed...

...Prof. Elisabet Ljunggren and Prof. Elisabeth Sundin; Malin Tillmar Purpose – Women’s entrepreneurship is often seen as the solution of both economic growth and gender equality. This is despite academic knowledge of the gendered preconditions for entrepreneurship in many contexts. This paper aims...

... and future of self-employment must be linked to the discussion about changes in the structure of occupations, labour markets and regulations and gender. The increase of the service sector and the continuous rise of the liberal professions mirror changes within the category of self-employment. All different...