Research handbook on disability and entrepreneurship / edited by Shumaila Y. Yousafzai [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Yousafzai, Shumaila Y. (Shumaila Yakub), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Businesspeople with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2022]

Summary:

By exploring the economic and social value of disabled people with positive entrepreneurial traits and adaptive skills, this innovative book breaks away from normative entrepreneurial studies to recognise the overlooked value in disabled entrepreneurs.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Boxes

About the editors

Contributors

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Disability and Entrepreneurship

PART I The push and the pull factors for disabled entrepreneurs

1. Follow your dreams? Push and pull motivations of entrepreneurs with disabilities in Hungary

2. "Underdog" entrepreneurs? Identifying processes of opportunity creation among visually impaired founders of new ventures

3. Creating my own job: Australian experiences of people with disability with microenterprises, self-employment and entrepreneurship

4. The push and pull of entrepreneurship for individuals with autism spectrum disorder

5. Entrepreneurial activity among disabled entrepreneurs with visible and invisible impairments: a literature review

6. Entrepreneurship and disability: research in a Spanish university

7. Awareness and attitudes towards social entrepreneurship among university students and disabled people: the case of the Czech Republic

PART II Entrepreneurial ecosystem: barriers and facilitators

8. Enterprising? Disabled? The status and potential for disabled people's microenterprise in South Korea

9. Designing public policy to support entrepreneurial activity within the disabled community in Ireland

10. How entrepreneurs with physical and mental health challenges can benefit from an entrepreneurial ecosystems approach

11. The role of government policies in establishing a conducive entrepreneurial environment for disabled entrepreneurs in China

12. The need for an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem for women with disability in Pakistan

13. Disabled women entrepreneurs and microfinance: a road less travelled (for a reason)?

14. A preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the mental wellbeing of entrepreneurship students.

15. The hidden entrepreneurs: disability and entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan

16. Inclusive entrepreneurship in Palestine: context and prospects of people with disabilities

PART III The identity and contribution of disabled entrepreneurs

17. The making of a (dis)abled entrepreneur: an entrepreneurial identity perspective

18. The opportunity to contribute: disability and the digital entrepreneur

19. Disabled entrepreneurs creating value in Iran's entrepreneurial ecosystem

20. The contribution of disabled entrepreneurs in the Sultanate of Oman

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Yousafzai, Shumaila Research Handbook on Disability and Entrepreneurship

ISBN:

1-78990-564-8