Wellbeing of Women in Entrepreneurship

Maria-Teresa Lepeley is president and founder of the Global Institute for Quality Education in USA. She is an economist, educator, and entrepreneur.Katherina Kuschel is a visiting researcher at Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile.Nicholas Beutell is a professor of management, business administration, and health care management at Iona College, USA.Nicky Pouw is associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Emiel L. Eijdenberg is senior lecturer at the James Cook University, Singapore.

• Foreword: Erik Stam Part 1 The Americas. 1. The multiplier effect of wellbeing of women entrepreneurs. A practical approach and a personal account. 2. Women entrepreneurs: Advancing from quantity to quality to attain wellbeing through business sustainability. 3. Wellbeing, family, support, and health among married women entrepreneurs in the United States. 4. Wellbeing of women entrepreneurs in the United States. Common themes and their narratives. 5. Women founders of STEM firms in the United States. Challenges and opportunities to attain business sustainability and wellbeing. 6. The expat entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial ventures and wellbeing of women as ‘Trailing Spouses’. 7. Work, Wellness, and Wellbeing. Women Entrepreneurs Can Be Well While Doing Good. 8. Women in entrepreneurship from failure to wellbeing: Paradox or paradigm? A case study in Chile. 9. Entrepreneurship as therapy. A metaphor among necessity driven women seeking wellbeing by doing and connecting in Chile, . 10. Women in high-growth entrepreneurship and Chile’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. 11. Wellbeing of women entrepreneurs in rural Cusco, Peru: Success stories and entrepreneurial training. 12. Entrepreneurial Engagement, Empowerment and Wellbeing of Caribbean Women: A Meta-Synthesis. Part 2 Europe. 13. Why women entrepreneurs undertake lower radical growth modalities than do men. The Imprinting phenomenon. 14. Work-family conflicts and satisfaction among Italian women entrepreneurs. 15. Wellbeing of women entrepreneurs and relational capital. A case study in Italy. 16. Aspects of work-life balance and wellbeing of women in entrepreneurship. 17. Entrepreneurial Life-Puzzle and Wellbeing: The case of Swedish women entrepreneurs. 18. Women entrepreneurs and wellbeing: An identity perspective. Part 3 Middle East. 19. Grameen Microcredit Model of Social Entrepreneurship: Effect of Wellbeing among Women Entrepreneurs in Turkey. 20. Exploring Degrees of Wellbeing of Women Entrepreneurs in Refugee Settlements: A Personal Account. Part 4 Asia. 21. Wellbeing of women entrepreneurs: An Indian perspective. 22. Wellbeing assessment of pull and push women entrepreneurs. The Case of Bangladesh. Part 5 Africa. 23. Exploring wellbeing indicators of women micro entrepreneurs in Zambia. 24. Rethinking Women in Survival Entrepreneurship and Wellbeing in Kenya. 25. Hired Domestic Help: Critical factor in women entrepreneurs’ life and business satisfaction in Sub-Saharan countries. Part 6 Australia. 26. Enhancing wellbeing of women in entrepreneurship in media narrative

"Evidently, this work advances the academic perspective of women entrepreneurship and wellbeing through its innovative approach and broad perspective. The book thus contributes to advance our understanding of the different aspects of women entrepreneurs’ wellbeing, revealing alternative ways of assessment with alternative implications for women and, in consequence, for the sustainability of nations worldwide."--Katherinne Moore, Babson College, Wellesley, MA