Research avenues to increase the level of embeddedness of women entrepreneurs
| Entrepreneurial context |
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| Financial market, business networking, entrepreneurship education |
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| Social safety, gender bias, gender stereotypes |
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To what extent do entrepreneurial contexts encourage or obstruct women’s entrepreneurship in terms of start-up, expansion, scalability, and embedding? How do entrepreneurial contexts help women entrepreneurs overcome barriers? How do women entrepreneurs influence entrepreneurial contexts? |
How can education address the financial resourcing of business to better suit women entrepreneurs’ needs? What are the impacts of women support programs (with role models) on the entrepreneurial behaviour of women? What effects do network connections, relationships, and work placement have on women entrepreneurs in ecosystems? To what extent does the networking behaviour of women entrepreneurs affect their broader ecosystem engagements with external actors? What is the role of social capital in shaping (financial) strategies of women entrepreneurs? What is the contribution of social capital to women’s entrepreneurial processes? What role does gender play in entrepreneurial education? How can higher education institutions assist in overcoming barriers for women entrepreneurs? What is the impact of education on the entrepreneurial intent of students or the general population? How do (early-stage) women entrepreneurs develop social bonds in different business networks? |
To what extent do the interactions of women entrepreneurs with role models affect their view of the normative entrepreneur? How can nudges influence gender bias in creating more neutral entrepreneurial contexts? What is the role of central actors in creating equal access to recourses for all entrepreneurs? How do we generate socially safe contexts within and across entrepreneurial environments? |
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