We have to leverage those relationships: how Black women business owners respond to limited social capital

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Taylor M. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Women Business Owners

scholarly journals Struggles and Strategies of Black Women Business Owners in the U.S.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor M. Jackson ◽  
Paromita Sanyal
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
White Men ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
And Gender

Black women start businesses at a rate above the national average. Yet, a revenue gap persists when compared to businesses owned by Black men and White men and women. Existing explanations for the differences in revenue highlight the lack of experience and limited access to start-up capital that constrain racial and gender minorities and also the type of industries in which they operate. Research specifically examining Black women business owners is very limited. In this article, we explore if Black women business owners’ gender and racial identities pose challenges to running their businesses. We find that, because of their race and gender, Black women business owners contend with unique challenges that many entrepreneurs do not face. In-depth interviews reveal that they confront negative stereotypes held about them and, surprisingly, experience difficulties interacting with Black clients. These entrepreneurs cite navigation strategies that include monitoring self-presentation, adopting standards of excellence, and creating clear professional boundaries. This study suggests that Black women business owners might be spending more time than other business owners navigating challenges specifically linked to their identity, which seems to impact their business directly.

scholarly journals Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
pp. 026624262110137
Author(s):  
Patricia Lewis ◽  
Nick Rumens ◽  
Ruth Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Work Study ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Family And Work ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Analytical Device

Mobilising postfeminism as an analytical device, this article re-examines how women business owners discursively engage with the identity of the mumpreneur. Drawing on interviews with women business owners, this article reconceptualises the compatibility between motherhood and entrepreneurship associated with the mumpreneur, in terms of a hybrid identity that interlinks feminine and masculine behaviours connected to home and work. Study data reveal the discursive practices present in interview accounts – choosing family and work, strategic mumpreneurship and enhancing the business without limits – which draw on postfeminist discourses to constitute hybrid entrepreneurial femininities associated with the mumpreneur category. The article contributes to the gender and entrepreneurship literature, in particular, the scholarship on mumpreneurship, by first, showing how engagement with the mumpreneur identity is implicated in the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship; second, demonstrates how encounters with the mumpreneur contribute to the creation of a hierarchy of entrepreneurial identities which reinforces the masculine norm; and third considers how the mumpreneur as a hybrid identity mobilises entrepreneurship in children in gendered ways. While the emergence of the mumpreneur as a contemporary entrepreneurial identity has positively impacted how women’s entrepreneurship is viewed, the study demonstrates that it has not disrupted dominant discourses of masculine entrepreneurship or gendered power relations in the entrepreneurial field.

The effects of agent incentives and training of women business owners on the take-up of mobile financial services in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianmarco Leon ◽  
Erika Deserranno ◽  
Firman Witolear ◽  
Mayra Buvinic ◽  
Hillary C. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Mobile Financial Services ◽  
And Training

Small Business Stories: Surviving and Thriving Amidst the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie McCall ◽  
Khaliid Scott ◽  
Urmi Bhatt
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Aid Programs

The COVID-19 pandemic will leave an enduring mark on North Carolina’s small business community. Using a phenomenological framework, we conducted a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews with small business owners about how they addressed the pandemic’s challenges. Four central themes emerged that illustrate the complexity and nuance of small business resiliency. Our data suggest that to survive and thrive, entrepreneurs had to: (1) be adaptable and willing to pivot, (2) have an entrepreneurial spirit, (3) leverage their social capital, and (4) have the knowledge and ability to apply for aid programs.

Growing Women Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries in South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-261
Author(s):  
Ndwakhulu Stephen Tshishonga
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Women Entrepreneurship ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Ideas

This chapter interrogates the potential of women entrepreneurship as an economic strategy to address unemployment and job creation. The chapter focusses on creative industry to demonstrate that creativity and innovations can activate entrepreneurship among women in South Africa. It is through entrepreneurship that entrepreneurs transform their innovative and creative ideas into business enterprises and job creation. Although female entrepreneurship for economic development is recognised internationally, it lags behind those of men especially in the number of women business owners and the size of businesses including access to economic resources. The chapter argues that entrepreneurs are central in boosting the economy and the optimal use of their skills, innovative new ideas that sustain entrepreneurial creative projects. The chapter makes use of a visual profile, participant observation, case studies, and face-to-face interviews with women involved in creative industries such as bead making, pottery, traditional dress-making, and traditional dance.

Women of Enterprise

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-236
Author(s):  
Katina Manko
Keyword(s):  
Business Administration ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Business Administration ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Direct Sales ◽  
Global Organization ◽  
Sales Company ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
A Company

During the 1980s and 1990s, Avon had successfully built its reputation as “a company of women and for women.” Avon, along with the Small Business Administration, created a Women of Enterprise awards program that highlighted the success of women business owners outside of direct sales. Through this program, Avon engaged in a popular conversation about women’s ability to “have it all.” Recognized for its women-friendly management policies, organizations such as Catalyst held Avon up as an example of a company where women had shattered the glass ceiling, even though Avon continued to name men to lead the corporation, prompting the defection of several high-ranking women in its global organization. When Andrea Jung became CEO in 1999, Avon had reached its zenith as a direct sales company, but it could not succeed against the fundamental challenges presented by internet marketing.

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