...Paulo Jose Azevedo; Paulo Roberto Arvate; Luisa Cordeiro Evangelista Moraes Purpose Women entrepreneurs in the informal economy ( IE ) are expected to experience a different trajectory and worse performance than men due to the societal context in which they operate (e.g. norms and culture...

...Omaya Kuran; Lara Khabbaz Purpose This study aims to investigate how Lebanese women entrepreneurs build resilience in the face of compounding crises, including economic collapse, political instability and the COVID-19 pandemic. It introduces “Mission” as a sixth dimension in the established 5M...

...Nurul Hidayana Mohd Noor; Mahazril 'Aini Yaacob; Noralina Omar Purpose Women’s involvement in business is growing and positively impacting the national economy, especially in developing countries. Women entrepreneurs’ success has shown women’s abilities to empower and support national policies...

... antecedents of the decision to persist among entrepreneurs have remained understudied. This dearth of research is more obvious with respect to women entrepreneurs, especially in developing countries. To address this gap, this paper aims to explore the main antecedents of the decision to persist among women...

... the study objectives, and based on an inductive method, the non-economic antecedents that led women to start entrepreneurship ventures are explored using 33 in-depth interviews. The study explores beyond the motivations and investigates the social process through which a women entrepreneur passes through...

... after receiving negative feedbacks regarding those plans. Although the escalating behavior is an inherent part of the entrepreneurial cognition, previous studies have mostly ignored its antecedents among entrepreneurs. This dearth of studies is more severe regarding women entrepreneurs, whose biases...

... intangible assets available to women entrepreneurs contribute to the performance of their businesses. Design/methodology/approach Using an exploratory sequential research design (a type of mixed methods design), the data collection was organized into two main phases. The first phase was the qualitative...

... of 170 women entrepreneurs in Vietnam and 180 women entrepreneurs in China. The authors used the survey instrument developed by H.M. Chu ( Chu and Katsioloudes 2001 ), which has been adopted in a number of small business studies since 2002. To determine whether there is a significant difference between...

... competencies and competitive advantage under the premises of social capital theory. Innovation Competitive advantage Social capital Women entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial competencies The essence of competitive advantages derived from a simple question, “why should consumers purchase from...