Training young female entrepreneurs on a national-scale: the Greek 'Genesis' Project case study

The case describes the entrepreneurial journey of a passionate and dedicated young female entrepreneur, Hareem Zahid. She is a 2016 graduate from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), where she completed her bachelor’s degree in BBA Entrepreneurship. Her journey reflects that how she entered into the Entrepreneurship program at IBA, and the sequence of events led her to the frivolous pursuit of starting an online venture of ABAA. The venture came into being in January 2013, and climbed the ladder of success in a span of almost 2 years. ABAA’s philosophy is to help the modest women find refined elegance, versatility and style in their modest wardrobe, with no compromise on quality and affordability of price. This case elaborates the journey embarked upon by Hareem, who set foot in this venture with a spiritual orientation, where rather than pursuing things with a fiercely competitive mindset, she developed a mindset which seeks the pleasure of Almighty Allah (swt), with a belief of cooperation and customer service. The story of ABAA depicts that a high spiritual orientation along with an entrepreneurial mindset led Hareem to do something which creates real value and helps her to live a meaningful life. The case further examines the vision Hareem had of expanding her business and taking it to the next level. The case is extremely pertinent because of the dearth of literature available on female entrepreneurs in Pakistan. It aims to shed light on the mushroom growth of the women-led online business sphere in Pakistan.

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Industrial destabilisation: The case of Rajajinagar, Bangalore

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/00420980211044005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 004209802110440

Author(s):

Shriya Anand ◽

Aditi Dey

Keyword(s):

Industrial Restructuring ◽

National Scale ◽

Local Economies ◽

Industrial Transformation ◽

Engineering Economy ◽

Neighbourhood Scale ◽

The City ◽

Indian Cities ◽

Suitable Case

There has been a recent interest in expanding the focus of deindustrialisation studies to the cities of the Global South. Bangalore, with its long legacy of state sponsored industrialisation, as well as a substantial shift in its economy following economic liberalisation in 1991, presents itself as a suitable case to examine the impacts of industrial transformation. We study the decline of the engineering economy in one of Bangalore’s earliest planned industrial suburbs, Rajajinagar, to understand how industrial restructuring at the city and national scale has affected and reconfigured local economies. Using this case study, we make two main theoretical contributions: one, we bring out shifts at a neighbourhood scale that go beyond the existing literature on neoliberal transformations in Bangalore as well as other Indian cities. Two, the case also allows us to assess the limitations of deindustrialisation as a framework to analyse these changes, and we suggest a modified framework, that of ‘industrial destabilisation’.

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National-scale estimation of gross forest aboveground carbon loss: a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Environmental Research Letters ◽

10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044039 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 044039 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

A Tyukavina ◽

S V Stehman ◽

P V Potapov ◽

S A Turubanova ◽

A Baccini ◽

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Keyword(s):

Democratic Republic ◽

National Scale ◽

Carbon Loss ◽

Scale Estimation ◽

Aboveground Carbon ◽

Republic Of The Congo

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Exploring Young Female Entrepreneurial Activity in the United Arab Emirates: Issues, Prospects, and Implications for the Region

Al-Raida Journal ◽

10.32380/alrj.v0i0.67 ◽

1970 ◽

pp. 17-25

Author(s):

Yusuf Sidani

Keyword(s):

United Arab Emirates ◽

Driving Forces ◽

Young Female ◽

Entrepreneurial Activity ◽

Female Entrepreneurship ◽

Female Entrepreneurs ◽

Arab Region ◽

Start Up ◽

Entrepreneurial Motivations ◽

Entrepreneurial Activities

This study attempts to sketch a profile of young female entrepreneurs in the Arab region as they start their business organisations and take the first few steps in the development of their business. It attempts to draw a profile of a number of local Emirati women entrepreneurs and their characteristics, what attracts them to their businesses, and the hurdles they face as they enter into their line of business. In addition, it outlines the makeup of their entrepreneurial businesses, and identifies some barriers that women face at the start-up stage, in addition to their entrepreneurial motivations and driving forces, satisfactions, and frustrations. This is preceded by a brief overview of models of female entrepreneurship and an exploration of previous research into female entrepreneurship and women status in the Arab region. To accomplish this, we conducted thirteen interviews with young female entrepreneurs to assess the special challenges facing them as they go about starting and running their business ventures. We tried to gauge the interviewees’ entrepreneurial activities, their satisfaction with their business ventures, and the perceived opportunities and obstacles that they face. While this study explores the specific case of the UAE, the wider implications on young female Arab entrepreneurs are discussed.

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Establishing a retro-marketing rental company

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation ◽

10.1177/1465750318761647 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 125-133

Author(s):

Justin O’Brien

Keyword(s):

Small Business ◽

Contextual Information ◽

New Ventures ◽

Business Planning ◽

Female Entrepreneurs ◽

Service Concept ◽

Teaching Case ◽

Start Up ◽

Management Students

‘Establishing a retro-marketing rental company: VW Kamper’ is a teaching case study primarily targeted for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate entrepreneurship, marketing and management students who are seeking to learn a range of small business start-up business planning and evaluation methods. The case draws theoretically on the brand revival characteristic framework of Brown, Kozinets and Sherry to consider the allure of renting a nostalgic Volkswagen (VW) campervan for a glamorous camping experience while relating some of the growing literature pertaining to the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs. The case provides financial and marketing contextual information to practically engage students with an intriguing and authentic motorhome rental service concept to help develop financial reasoning skills related to new ventures and risk.

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