...Nawreen Sobhan; Abeer Hassan Purpose Female entrepreneurs have made increasing contributions to entrepreneurial activity and economic development worldwide, especially in emerging economies. It is well acknowledged that Bangladesh is one such South Asian emerging economy with many institutional...

..., but as the result of a choice among a limited number of options defined by institutions (Hoffman, 1999 , p. 351). These options represent institutionalized rules which are reflected in the way people think, decide and behave (Garud et al., 2002). As such, through formulating certain possible or impossible...