scholarly journals Extending Women's Entrepreneurship Research in New Directions

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen D. Hughes ◽  
Jennifer E. Jennings ◽  
Candida Brush ◽  
Sara Carter ◽  
Friederike Welter
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship

scholarly journals New directions for entrepreneurship through a gender and disability lens

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 1706-1726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jannine Williams ◽  
Nicola Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship

PurposeThere is a dearth of studies exploring the intersection of gender and disability within entrepreneurship research. This is despite women’s entrepreneurship research encouraging an expansion of the research questions asked and approaches taken. As a contribution to this debate, the purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of gender and disability as social categorizations which can shape entrepreneurial opportunities and experiences for disabled women entrepreneurs.Design/methodology/approachThe paper offers an intersectional conceptual lens for the study of disabled women entrepreneurs to explore a concern for a particular social group – women – at a neglected point of intersection – disability – within the social setting of entrepreneurship. Guided by the research question (how can gender and feminist disability theory contribute to the development of an intersectional theoretical lens for future entrepreneurship research?), the potential for new theoretical insights to emerge in the entrepreneurship field is identified.FindingsThrough a gender and disability intersectional lens for entrepreneurship research, four theoretical synergies between gender and disability research are identified: the economic rationale; flexibility, individualism and meritocracy; and social and human capital. In addition to the theoretical synergies, the paper highlights three theoretical variances: the anomalous body and bodily variation; sexuality, beauty and appearance; and multiple experiences of care as potentially generative areas for women’s entrepreneurship research. The paper identifies new directions for future gender, disability and entrepreneurship research by outlining research questions for each synergy and variance which draw attention to disabled women entrepreneurs’ experiences of choice and control within and across different spaces and processes of entrepreneuring.Originality/valueThe conceptual intersectional lens offered to study disabled women’s entrepreneurship highlights new directions for exploring experiences of entrepreneuring at the intersection of disability and gender. The paper brings disability into view as a social category that should be of concern to feminist entrepreneurship researchers by surfacing different dimensions of experience to those currently explored. Through the new directions outlined, future research can further disrupt the prevailing discourse of individualism and meritocracy that perpetuates success as an individual’s responsibility, and instead offer the potential for richer understandings of entrepreneuring which has a gender and disability consciousness.

Feminist perspectives on social entrepreneurship: critique and new directions

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Clark Muntean ◽  
Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship

Purpose The authors bring diverse feminist perspectives to bear on social entrepreneurship research and practice to challenge existing assumptions and approaches while providing new directions for research at the intersections of gender, social and commercial entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply liberal feminist, socialist feminist and transnational/post-colonial feminist perspectives to critically examine issues of gender in the field of social entrepreneurship. Findings By way of three distinct feminist lenses, the analyses suggest that the social entrepreneurship field does not recognize gender as an organizing principle in society. Further to this, a focus on women within this field replicates problematic gendered assumptions underlying the field of women’s entrepreneurship research. Practical implications The arguments and suggestions provide a critical gender perspective to inform the strategies and programmes adopted by practitioners and the types of research questions entrepreneurship scholars ask. Social implications The authors redirect the conversation away from limited status quo approaches towards the explicit and implicit aim of social entrepreneurship and women’s entrepreneurship: that is, economic and social equality for women across the globe. Originality/value The authors explicitly adopt a cultural, institutional and transnational analysis to interrogate the intersection of gender and social entrepreneurship.

Profile of Women Entrepreneurs in Tunisia and Their Choice of Entrepreneurial Career: An Exploratory Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (03) ◽  
pp. 281-303
Author(s):  
Anis Ben Salem ◽  
Adnane Malek ◽  
Hajer Chka
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business World ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship

Women’s entrepreneurship has taken its position in the sphere of entrepreneurship research as well as in the business world. Several features and attributes characterize and distinguish women entrepreneurs across countries. This paper aims at identifying and discerning the various factors influencing the entrepreneurial career of Tunisian women entrepreneurs and the impediments they face. For this, a qualitative exploratory study was conducted with a sample of 23 women entrepreneurs in Tunisia. This study shows the existence of several factors spurring the entrepreneurial career of the women entrepreneurs, including personal, social and environmental factors as well as following obstacles.

Come on out of the ghetto, please! – Building the future of entrepreneurship research

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Baker ◽  
Friederike Welter
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Future ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship ◽  
Special Case

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make the argument that previously marginalized but now flourishing subfields of entrepreneurship research continue to provide insights that can form the basis for future entrepreneurship research that is more broadly practical and critical. What is currently core or “mainstream” in entrepreneurship research would then be seen as an important but rare special case. Design/methodology/approach The essay briefly explores a number of illustrative themes that have emerged and become important in women’s entrepreneurship research (acknowledging that some similar themes have emerged in other subfields). These themes are used to suggest how broader application of such insights to theory-building about entrepreneurship in general – rather than “just” to “women’s entrepreneurship” – might greatly enrich the field. Findings The authors’ arguments suggest that research focused on ghettoized subfields such as women’s entrepreneurship challenge the assumptions of what entrepreneurship is and what it contributes. For example the richer perspective on motivations, goals, and outcomes and on the possibilities of emancipation that currently animate research on women’s entrepreneurship can improve the understanding of all entrepreneurship. Originality/value Too much of current entrepreneurship research is both of limited practical value for “practitioners” and of little “critical value” for scholars interested in how things might work better. The authors argue that by broadening the set of goals, motivations, contexts and accomplishments that are taken as legitimate targets of study, entrepreneurship research can become both more practical and more critical and thus more broadly useful and legitimate.

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