Women’s Entrepreneurship and Culture

Socio-cultural Context, Traditional Family Roles and Self-determination

Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana S. Manolova, Leon Schjoedt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78990-503-8 (ISBN)

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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.

This illuminating and inspiring book offers valuable insights for students of women's entrepreneurship, practicing entrepreneurs, and public policy makers interested in promoting women’s entrepreneurship in different cultural contexts around the world.

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, Tatiana S. Manolova, Professor of Management, Bentley University and Leon Schjoedt, Visiting Research Scholar, Babson College, US

Contents:

1 Introduction to women’s entrepreneurship and culture:
socio-cultural dynamics, role-influenced behaviors and
constraint negotiation 1
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) 20
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 47
Wee Chan Au, Sabrina Nourin and Pervaiz K. Ahmed
4 The influence of institutional and in-group collectivism on
women’s entrepreneurship 68
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 88
Magdalena Markowska and Tigist Tesfaye Abebe
6 From empowerment to emancipation: women’s
entrepreneurship cooking up a stir in South Africa 109
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 140
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 174
Dongling Zhang and Nancy C. Jurik
9 Women in copreneurial businesses in the socio-cultural
context of Iran 196
Zahra Arasti, Laleh Sadeghi and Maryam Saeedian

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2021
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-78990-503-6 / 1789905036
ISBN-13	978-1-78990-503-8 / 9781789905038
Zustand	Neuware