Table 2

Research avenues to increase the level of embeddedness of women entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurial context
  • 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?

Financial market, business networking, entrepreneurship education
  • 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?

Social safety, gender bias, gender stereotypes
  • 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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