Edited by Shumaila Yousafzai, Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, Wilson Ng, Professor of Entrepreneurship, IDRAC Business School, Campus de Lyon, France and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Regent's University London, UK, Shandana Sheikh, Avicenna Medical and Dental College, Pakistan and Thomas Coogan, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Hadyn Green Institute, Nottingham University Business School, UK

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on Disability and Entrepreneurship xixShumaila Yousafzai, Wilson Ng, Shandana Sheikh and Thomas CooganPART I THE PUSH AND THE PULL FACTORS FORDISABLED ENTREPRENEURS1 Follow your dreams? Push and pull motivations ofentrepreneurs with disabilities in Hungary 2Sara Csillag, Zsuzsanna Gyori, Anna Laura Hidegh and Carmen Svastics2 “Underdog” entrepreneurs? Identifying processes ofopportunity creation among visually impaired founders of newventures 20Wilson Ng3 Creating my own job: Australian experiences of peoplewith disability with microenterprises, self-employment andentrepreneurship 35Simon Darcy, Jock Collins and Megan Stronach4 The push and pull of entrepreneurship for individuals withautism spectrum disorder 59Eric Patton5 Entrepreneurial activity among disabled entrepreneurs withvisible and invisible impairments: a literature review 77Wilson Ng6 Entrepreneurship and disability: research in a Spanish university 85Rosa M. Muñoz, Yolanda Salinero and M. Valle Fernández7 Awareness and attitudes towards social entrepreneurshipamong university students and disabled people: the case of theCzech Republic 99Ondřej Kročil, Richard Pospíšil and David KosinaPART II ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM: BARRIERSAND FACILITATORS8 Enterprising? Disabled? The status and potential for disabledpeople’s microenterprise in South Korea 114Se Kwang Hwang and Alan Roulstone9 Designing public policy to support entrepreneurial activitywithin the disabled community in Ireland 131Thomas M. Cooney10 How entrepreneurs with physical and mental health challengescan benefit from an entrepreneurial ecosystems approach 143Mirza Tihic, Gary Shaheen and Felix Arndt11 The role of government policies in establishing a conduciveentrepreneurial environment for disabled entrepreneurs in China 160Tiansheng Yang, Shandana Sheikh, Shumaila Yousafzai andXiangxin Yang12 The need for an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem forwomen with disability in Pakistan 182Shandana Sheikh13 Disabled women entrepreneurs and microfinance: a road lesstravelled (for a reason)? 196Nadeera Ranabahu and Farzana Aman Tanima14 A preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on themental wellbeing of entrepreneurship students 208Sylvie Studente, Filia Garivaldis and Wilson Ng15 The hidden entrepreneurs: disability and entrepreneurship inKazakhstan 221Shumaila Yousafzai and Yerken Turganbayev16 Inclusive entrepreneurship in Palestine: context and prospectsof people with disabilities 238Wojdan Omran and Leila FarrajPART III THE IDENTITY AND CONTRIBUTION OFDISABLED ENTREPRENEURS17 The making of a (dis)abled entrepreneur: an entrepreneurialidentity perspective 247Mukta Kulkarni and Yangerjungla Pongener18 The opportunity to contribute: disability and the digital entrepreneur 262Tom Boellstorff19 Disabled entrepreneurs creating value in Iran’s entrepreneurialecosystem 279Vahid Makizadeh, Shumaila Yousafzai, Siavash Aein Jamshid andAdel Mohebbi20 The contribution of disabled entrepreneurs in the Sultanate of Oman 297Eric V. BindahIndex

Edited by Shumaila Yousafzai, Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, Wilson Ng, Professor of Entrepreneurship, IDRAC Business School, Campus de Lyon, France and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Regent's University London, UK, Shandana Sheikh, Avicenna Medical and Dental College, Pakistan and Thomas Coogan, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Hadyn Green Institute, Nottingham University Business School, UK

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on Disability and Entrepreneurship xixShumaila Yousafzai, Wilson Ng, Shandana Sheikh and Thomas CooganPART I THE PUSH AND THE PULL FACTORS FORDISABLED ENTREPRENEURS1 Follow your dreams? Push and pull motivations ofentrepreneurs with disabilities in Hungary 2Sara Csillag, Zsuzsanna Gyori, Anna Laura Hidegh and Carmen Svastics2 “Underdog” entrepreneurs? Identifying processes ofopportunity creation among visually impaired founders of newventures 20Wilson Ng3 Creating my own job: Australian experiences of peoplewith disability with microenterprises, self-employment andentrepreneurship 35Simon Darcy, Jock Collins and Megan Stronach4 The push and pull of entrepreneurship for individuals withautism spectrum disorder 59Eric Patton5 Entrepreneurial activity among disabled entrepreneurs withvisible and invisible impairments: a literature review 77Wilson Ng6 Entrepreneurship and disability: research in a Spanish university 85Rosa M. Muñoz, Yolanda Salinero and M. Valle Fernández7 Awareness and attitudes towards social entrepreneurshipamong university students and disabled people: the case of theCzech Republic 99Ondřej Kročil, Richard Pospíšil and David KosinaPART II ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM: BARRIERSAND FACILITATORS8 Enterprising? Disabled? The status and potential for disabledpeople’s microenterprise in South Korea 114Se Kwang Hwang and Alan Roulstone9 Designing public policy to support entrepreneurial activitywithin the disabled community in Ireland 131Thomas M. Cooney10 How entrepreneurs with physical and mental health challengescan benefit from an entrepreneurial ecosystems approach 143Mirza Tihic, Gary Shaheen and Felix Arndt11 The role of government policies in establishing a conduciveentrepreneurial environment for disabled entrepreneurs in China 160Tiansheng Yang, Shandana Sheikh, Shumaila Yousafzai andXiangxin Yang12 The need for an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem forwomen with disability in Pakistan 182Shandana Sheikh13 Disabled women entrepreneurs and microfinance: a road lesstravelled (for a reason)? 196Nadeera Ranabahu and Farzana Aman Tanima14 A preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on themental wellbeing of entrepreneurship students 208Sylvie Studente, Filia Garivaldis and Wilson Ng15 The hidden entrepreneurs: disability and entrepreneurship inKazakhstan 221Shumaila Yousafzai and Yerken Turganbayev16 Inclusive entrepreneurship in Palestine: context and prospectsof people with disabilities 238Wojdan Omran and Leila FarrajPART III THE IDENTITY AND CONTRIBUTION OFDISABLED ENTREPRENEURS17 The making of a (dis)abled entrepreneur: an entrepreneurialidentity perspective 247Mukta Kulkarni and Yangerjungla Pongener18 The opportunity to contribute: disability and the digital entrepreneur 262Tom Boellstorff19 Disabled entrepreneurs creating value in Iran’s entrepreneurialecosystem 279Vahid Makizadeh, Shumaila Yousafzai, Siavash Aein Jamshid andAdel Mohebbi20 The contribution of disabled entrepreneurs in the Sultanate of Oman 297Eric V. BindahIndex

Edited by Shumaila Yousafzai, Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, Wilson Ng, Professor of Entrepreneurship, IDRAC Business School, Campus de Lyon, France and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Regent's University London, UK, Shandana Sheikh, Avicenna Medical and Dental College, Pakistan and Thomas Coogan, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Hadyn Green Institute, Nottingham University Business School, UK

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on Disability and Entrepreneurship xixShumaila Yousafzai, Wilson Ng, Shandana Sheikh and Thomas CooganPART I THE PUSH AND THE PULL FACTORS FORDISABLED ENTREPRENEURS1 Follow your dreams? Push and pull motivations ofentrepreneurs with disabilities in Hungary 2Sara Csillag, Zsuzsanna Gyori, Anna Laura Hidegh and Carmen Svastics2 “Underdog” entrepreneurs? Identifying processes ofopportunity creation among visually impaired founders of newventures 20Wilson Ng3 Creating my own job: Australian experiences of peoplewith disability with microenterprises, self-employment andentrepreneurship 35Simon Darcy, Jock Collins and Megan Stronach4 The push and pull of entrepreneurship for individuals withautism spectrum disorder 59Eric Patton5 Entrepreneurial activity among disabled entrepreneurs withvisible and invisible impairments: a literature review 77Wilson Ng6 Entrepreneurship and disability: research in a Spanish university 85Rosa M. Muñoz, Yolanda Salinero and M. Valle Fernández7 Awareness and attitudes towards social entrepreneurshipamong university students and disabled people: the case of theCzech Republic 99Ondřej Kročil, Richard Pospíšil and David KosinaPART II ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM: BARRIERSAND FACILITATORS8 Enterprising? Disabled? The status and potential for disabledpeople’s microenterprise in South Korea 114Se Kwang Hwang and Alan Roulstone9 Designing public policy to support entrepreneurial activitywithin the disabled community in Ireland 131Thomas M. Cooney10 How entrepreneurs with physical and mental health challengescan benefit from an entrepreneurial ecosystems approach 143Mirza Tihic, Gary Shaheen and Felix Arndt11 The role of government policies in establishing a conduciveentrepreneurial environment for disabled entrepreneurs in China 160Tiansheng Yang, Shandana Sheikh, Shumaila Yousafzai andXiangxin Yang12 The need for an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem forwomen with disability in Pakistan 182Shandana Sheikh13 Disabled women entrepreneurs and microfinance: a road lesstravelled (for a reason)? 196Nadeera Ranabahu and Farzana Aman Tanima14 A preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on themental wellbeing of entrepreneurship students 208Sylvie Studente, Filia Garivaldis and Wilson Ng15 The hidden entrepreneurs: disability and entrepreneurship inKazakhstan 221Shumaila Yousafzai and Yerken Turganbayev16 Inclusive entrepreneurship in Palestine: context and prospectsof people with disabilities 238Wojdan Omran and Leila FarrajPART III THE IDENTITY AND CONTRIBUTION OFDISABLED ENTREPRENEURS17 The making of a (dis)abled entrepreneur: an entrepreneurialidentity perspective 247Mukta Kulkarni and Yangerjungla Pongener18 The opportunity to contribute: disability and the digital entrepreneur 262Tom Boellstorff19 Disabled entrepreneurs creating value in Iran’s entrepreneurialecosystem 279Vahid Makizadeh, Shumaila Yousafzai, Siavash Aein Jamshid andAdel Mohebbi20 The contribution of disabled entrepreneurs in the Sultanate of Oman 297Eric V. BindahIndex