Women's entrepreneurship and culture : socio-cultural context, traditional family roles and self-determination / edited by Ulrike Guelich (assistant professor, GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) Thailand team leader, Bangkok University School of Entrepreneurship and Management, Thailand), Amanda Bullough (associate professor, Management and Global Leadership; co-founder and research director, Women's Leadership Initiative; principal co-investigator, GLOBE Project: GLOBE 2020, University of Delaware, USA), Tatiana S. Manolova (professor of management, Bentley University, USA), Leon Schjoedt (visiting research scholar, Babson College, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guelich, Ulrike, editor.

Bullough, Amanda, editor.

Manolova, Tatiana S., editor.

Schjoedt, Leon, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Diana Project, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship--Social aspects.

Entrepreneurship.

Women-owned business enterprises.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

"Women's entrepreneurship is an effective way to combat poverty, hunger and disease, to stimulate sustainable business practices, and to promote gender equality. Yet, deeply engrained cultural norms often prescribe gender-specific roles and behaviors that severely constrain the opportunities for women's entrepreneurial activities. This excellent new volume of work from the Diana Group explores this paradox. As women-entrepreneurs circumvent challenges and obstacles, they also ameliorate the cultural context for future women entrepreneurs. In this book, studies covering 40 countries document how culture affects women's entrepreneurship, and how women's entrepreneurship, in turn, shapes the cultural milieu. The work is organized into three main themes: (1) the socio-cultural context for women's entrepreneurship; (2) women's entrepreneurship as emancipation from traditional family roles; and (3) government policies and programs and self-determination in women's entrepreneurship."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Women's entrepreneurship and culture: socio-cultural dynamics, role-influenced behaviors and constraint negotiation / Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana S. Manolova and Leon Schjoedt.

Part I. The effects of a society's culture on the embeddedness of women's entrepreneurship: 2. Gender, culture and entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) / Bettina Lynda Bastian, Stephen Hill and Beverly Dawn Metcalfe

3. The unfolding process of women's entrepreneurship in a patriarchal society : an exploration of Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs' experiences / Wee Chan Au, Sabrina Nourin and Pervaiz K. Ahmed

4. The influence of institutional and in-group collectivism on women's entrepreneurship / Pedro Torres and Mário Augusto.

Part II. Women's emancipation from traditional family roles: 5. You are well-educated, so why do you want to start a venture? : cultural norms of women's entrepreneurship in Ethiopia / Magdalena Markowska and Tigist Tesfaye Abebe

6. From empowerment to emancipation : women's entrepreneurship cooking up a stir in South Africa / Bridget N. Irene, William K. Murithi, Regina Frank and Bernadette Mandawa-Bray

7. Role of socio-cultural factors in shaping entrepreneurial decision and behavior : an Indian perspective / Jasmine Banu, Rupashree Baral, Upasna A. Agarwal and Mansi Rastogi.

Part III. Culture and self-determination in women's entrepreneurship: 8. Mobilising "she power" : Chinese women entrepreneurs negotiating cultural and neoliberal contexts / Dongling Zhang and Nancy C. Jurik

9. Women in copreneurial businesses in the socio-cultural context of Iran / Zahra Arasti, Laleh Sadeghi and Maryam Saeedian.

Notes:

"In association with the Diana International Project."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781789905045