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Female Entrepreneurship

Strategic Direction, 2019
Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Female entrepreneurs
Jennifer L. Solotaroff   +5 more
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Female Entrepreneurship, Female Employment, and Productivity

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020
Female underperformance hypothesis, which states that female-run businesses are smaller, earn humbler profits and revenues, and make indistinct contributions to the economy may not be completely co...
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Female Social Entrepreneurship in Turkey

2015
Social entrepreneurship has generally been accepted as an “entrepreneurial activity with an embedded social purpose” (Austin et al., 2006). However, when we look at the construct in detail, different scholars define it in various ways (Dacin et al., 2010; Cukier et al., 2011).
Uygur, D.   +3 more
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FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AFGHANISTAN [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 2011
This paper analyzes the motivations of eight female Afghan entrepreneurs to start up their own business and the problems they encountered during start-up and operations. Income generation was the most important push factor but pull factors including desire for independence and autonomy were also important.
MAGNUS HOLMÉN   +2 more
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Exploring Female Entrepreneurship

2019
This chapter addresses some of the misconceptions regarding female entrepreneurship and how different notions in different contexts lay the ground for further misalignments in the entrepreneurial process. It also addresses how contextual issues affect social and economic underpinnings in different countries.
Muhammad Zakria   +3 more
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Female Entrepreneurship in Africa

2023
Abstract This paper examines data on formal and informal firms in Cameroon and explores the links between female direction of firms and the obstacles known to keep firms from reaching their full potential.  The strong presence of women in the informal sector can be explained by several factors, including the size of their business ...
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye   +2 more
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Female immigrant entrepreneurship

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2011
PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to explore how entrepreneurial opportunities are used by the rapidly increasing immigrant Indian female population in Japan. Given that a majority of Indian women are housewives and grew up in conservative family backgrounds, this analysis seeks to provide an insight into the situations that aided them and the ...
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Female Entrepreneurship in Germany

2000
In Germany, fostering female entrepreneurship is viewed as one of the solutions to fulfill the aim of increasing the overall level of entrepreneurship. As in many other countries, it is believed that a higher level of entrepreneurship would reduce the level of unemployment.
Leona Achtenhagen, Friederike Welter
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