Women’s Entrepreneurship and Culture

Socio-cultural Context, Traditional Family Roles and Self-determination

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana S. Manolova, Leon Schjoedt

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Women's entrepreneurship is an effective way to combat poverty, hunger and disease, to stimulate sustainable business practices, and to promote gender equality. Yet, deeply engrained cultural norms often prescribe gender-specific roles and behaviors that severely constrain the opportunities for women's entrepreneurial activities. This excellent new volume of work from the Diana Group explores this paradox.As women-entrepreneurs circumvent challenges and obstacles, they also ameliorate the cultural context for future women entrepreneurs. In this book, studies covering 40 countries document how culture affects women’s entrepreneurship, and how women's entrepreneurship, in turn, shapes the cultural milieu. The work is organized into three main themes: (1) the socio-cultural context for women's entrepreneurship; (2) women’s entrepreneurship as emancipation from traditional family roles; and (3) government policies and programs and self-determination in women's entrepreneurship. This illuminating and inspiring book offers valuable insights for students of women's entrepreneurship, practicing entrepreneurs, and public policy makers interested in promoting women’s entrepreneurship in different cultural contexts around the world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-07-02
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781789905038

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Edited by Ulrike Guelich, Assistant Professor, GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) Thailand Team Leader, Bangkok University School of Entrepreneurship and Management, Thailand, Amanda Bullough, Associate Professor, Management and Global Leadership; Co-Founder and Research Director, Women’s Leadership Initiative; Principal Co-investigator, GLOBE Project: GLOBE 2020; University of Delaware, Tatiana S. Manolova, Professor of Management, Bentley University and Leon Schjoedt, The University of Texas Rio Grade Valley, US

Contents:1 Introduction to women’s entrepreneurship and culture:socio-cultural dynamics, role-influenced behaviors andconstraint negotiation 1Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana S. Manolovaand Leon SchjoedtPART I THE EFFECTS OF A SOCIETY’S CULTUREON THE EMBEDDEDNESS OF WOMEN’SENTREPRENEURSHIP2 Gender, culture and entrepreneurship in the Middle Eastand North Africa (MENA) 20Bettina Lynda Bastian, Stephen Hill and Beverly Dawn Metcalfe3 The unfolding process of women’s entrepreneurship ina patriarchal society: an exploration of Bangladeshi womenentrepreneurs’ experiences 47Wee Chan Au, Sabrina Nourin and Pervaiz K. Ahmed4 The influence of institutional and in-group collectivism onwomen’s entrepreneurship 68Pedro Torres and Mário AugustoPART II WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION FROMTRADITIONAL FAMILY ROLES5 You are well-educated, so why do you want to starta venture? Cultural norms of women’s entrepreneurship inEthiopia 88Magdalena Markowska and Tigist Tesfaye Abebe6 From empowerment to emancipation: women’sentrepreneurship cooking up a stir in South Africa 109Bridget N. Irene, William K. Murithi, Regina Frank andBernadette Mandawa-Bray7 Role of socio-cultural factors in shaping entrepreneurialdecision and behavior: an Indian perspective 140Jasmine Banu, Rupashree Baral, Upasna A. Agarwal andMansi RastogiPART III CULTURE AND SELF-DETERMINATION INWOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP8 Mobilising “she power”: Chinese women entrepreneursnegotiating cultural and neoliberal contexts 174Dongling Zhang and Nancy C. Jurik9 Women in copreneurial businesses in the socio-culturalcontext of Iran 196Zahra Arasti, Laleh Sadeghi and Maryam SaeedianIndex

'For the first time, the idea of dynamic interaction between women's entrepreneurship and socio-cultural context is considered from the perspectives of family roles and self-determination across a variety of countries. Not only does this volume highlight how culture affects women’s entrepreneurship, but also it explores how women’s entrepreneurship influences cultural context. A well edited and interesting collection of chapters!'