... Female entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial passion Decision-making Start-up stage Tunisia Arab Middle East Funding: The authors have no financial or proprietary interests in any material discussed in this article. Why is it important to study female decision-making in start-ups...

...Izaias Martins; Maria Antonia Nunez; Juan P. Perez; Eduart Villanueva Purpose Informal female entrepreneurship (IFE) represents a significant yet understudied dimension of economic activity globally. This research aims to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) on IFE. Design/methodology...

... to explore the role of husbands' participation in their wives' cooperative and SGH. We embed our hypotheses and empirical results in a rich discussion of female entrepreneurship, microfinance and cooperative literature. Felix Meier zu Selhausen can be contacted at: f.p.meierzuselhausen@uu.nl 07...

...Filippo Marchesani; Francesca Masciarelli Purpose This study aims to investigate the synergies between the economic environment and the smart living dimension embedded in the current smart city initiatives, focusing on the localization of female entrepreneurship in contemporary cities...

...Hala Hatoum; Mohamed Yacine Haddoud; Chima Mordi Purpose The paper aims to shed light on the factors that affect female entrepreneurship at the macro-environment level and motherhood in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the 5M model and an institutional approach...

... excellent subjects for exploring the framework of entrepreneurship as a means of liberation. Female entrepreneurship Emancipation Motivations Emerging economies West Africa Globally, governments are promoting entrepreneurship as the means to solving the world's economic problems (Urbano...

... gender and innovation and how these two elements interact for the growth of firms in their early life. Results also provide insights for policymakers to use in designing programs for promoting female entrepreneurship and participation in science. Prior literature in fact highlights that gender...

... as a factor in motivating females towards entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Female entrepreneurship Social cognitive theory Social comparison theory Entrepreneurial self-efficacy Career choice Emirati Self-efficacy, which is the belief in one's capabilities...

... approaching the same issues, trends, opportunities and threats (Teoh and Chong, 2014). Carter and Shaw (2006) pointed out that women performed different entrepreneurial roles: a leader, innovator and risk taker, which helped them to be successful entrepreneurs. Female entrepreneurship Psychological...

... enterprise Creative industry Business Support Female entrepreneurship Micro enterprise A large body of literature exists debating the need for supporting small and medium enterprises (SME) and seeking to evaluate the return-on-investment of public expenditure into business support...

...Collette Henry; Laura Treanor; Tatiana Iakovleva; Marina Solesvik; Anna Trifilova Purpose This paper studies female entrepreneurship in two post‐Soviet countries – Russia and Ukraine. Employing institutional theory, the research aims to investigate the entrepreneurial environment, particularly...