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Defining and Characterizing Women Entrepreneurship [PDF]

Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series
Entrepreneurship plays a key role in sustaining economic development, ensuring economic growth, launching innovative products and/or services, and satisfying social needs of communities and/or societies.
Sorin-George Toma
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Female Students

Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education, 2018
We have conducted the first-ever study of female and male Afghan university students about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education.  Students at this new university in Afghanistan provided data on their intentions, entrepreneurial disposition ...
Mark W. Pruett, Harun Şeşen, J.R.M. Pandian, Greg Winter   +3 more
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Sound Financial Practices and Entrepreneurs' Socio‐Environmental Commitment: Revealing the Role of Financial Barriers

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small enterprises (SEs) constitute a major component of economic systems, and their socio‐environmental commitment is critical for promoting societal well‐being. This paper examines the direct effect of sound financial practices on socio‐environmental commitment and evaluates the mediating role of financial constraints—specifically debt and ...
Marcos Álvarez‐Espiño, Sara Fernández‐López, Lucía Rey‐Ares   +2 more
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Towards a Socially Inclusive Circular Economy: Evidence From Social Enterprises in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE) and social entrepreneurship (SE) are increasingly recognised as critical pathways for sustainable development, yet CE research often underplays social inclusion, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs).
Maria L. Granados, Adeyemi Adelekan
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity in Central Asia: Culture, transition & entrepreneurship [PDF]

, 2009
With the demise of the USSR in 1991, five new countries became independent in Central Asia. This study presents an overview about transition, emergence and nature of entrepreneurship in a world’s region that displays amongst the most important energy ...
Dana, Leo-Paul, Mueller, Jens, Lasch, Frank   +2 more
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Constraints and opportunities facing women entrepreneurs in developing countries: a relational perspective

, 2009
Purpose: this purpose of the paper to examine the interplay of constraints and opportunities affecting female entrepreneurship in developing countries.
Jamali, Dima
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Constructing female entrepreneurship policy in the UK : is the US a relevant benchmark? [PDF]

, 2008
Successive UK governments have introduced a range of policy initiatives designed to encourage more women to start new firms. Underpinning these policies has been an explicit ambition for the UK to achieve similar participation rates as those in the US ...
Carter, Sara, Marlow, Susan, Shaw, Eleanor   +2 more
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Evaluation of women entrepreneurship performance in OECD countries - Data Envelopment Analysis approach

Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021
The importance of women entrepreneurship increases day by day as it has a significant contribution to economic development, job creation, and innovation.
Burcu Özcan, Melda Güliz Ateş, Yıldız Şahin   +2 more
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Locked in Transition: Examining the Role of Paradoxical Tensions in the Transition From Industrial Cluster to Eco‐Clusters

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial clusters are central to the circular economy transition, yet how they develop into eco‐clusters and the paradoxical tensions this transformation fuels remain underexplored. Drawing on 48 in‐depth interviews and secondary data from a Turkish textile‐recycling cluster, we develop an empirically grounded model of eco‐cluster transition
Tulin Dzhengiz, Leona A. Henry, Simon M. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring female factor in determinants of entrepreneurship: illustration by case of Côte d'Ivoire through a quasi-experimental ex-post approach

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 2023
Purpose of this article is to find out whether determinants of women entrepreneurship are different from those of men’s entrepreneurship in general and specifically in Côte d’Ivoire.
Salif Koné
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