Women's Entrepreneurship Policy

Edited by Colette Henry, Head of Department of Business Studies, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Ireland and Griffith University Australia, Susan Coleman, Professor Emerita, University of Hartford, US and Kate V. Lewis, Reader, Newcastle University, UK

• Contents:About Global WEP xviii1 Introduction to Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy: takingstock and moving forward 1Colette Henry, Susan Coleman and Kate V. Lewis2 Exploring the gender gap in women’s entrepreneurship:a narrative policy analysis 14Patricia G. Greene and Candida Brush3 Strategies to redress entrepreneurship gender gaps inCanada revisited 40Barbara J. Orser4 Entrepreneurship as a losing proposition for women:gendered outcomes of neo-liberal entrepreneurship policyin a Nordic welfare state 77Helene Ahl, Malin Tillmar, Karin Berglund and Katarina Pettersson5 Mapping ethnic minority women entrepreneurs’ supportinitiatives: experiences from the UK 105Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla6 Institutional work in Czech and US business assistanceprogrammes and implications for entrepreneurial inclusion 125Nancy C. Jurik, Alena Křížková, Marie Pospíšilová andGray Cavender7 Barriers to women’s entrepreneurship in Poland andinstitutional support 164Ewa Lisowska and Dariusz Leszczyński8 Beyond COVID-19: women entrepreneurs ande-commerce policy in the Asia-Pacific 194Patrice Braun, Naomi Birdthistle and Antoinette Flynn9 Analysis of Ghana’s and South Africa’s womenentrepreneurship policies 216Mavis S. B. Mensah and Evelyn DereraIndex 243

‘Well thought-out, illustrative and opportune! This outstanding collection of chapters positively influences the future of the women’s entrepreneurship research agenda and outlines new pathways for entrepreneurship policy formation, enrichment and delivery. A must-read for policy makers and scholars around the globe.’