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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Female entrepreneurs"”.
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Training needs of pre-venture female entrepreneurs
Few studies on female entrepreneurship have focused on preventure women and their training needs. This study used four years of data collected from a Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in a large mid-western city. The information needs sought by pre-venture females were compared with those of …
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(Re) Visiting Female Entrepreneurs: An Emancipatory Impulse
This thesis aims to emancipate female entrepreneurs from the metanarrative of economic growth which has created a false dichotomy of successful male entrepreneur versus an unsuccessful female entrepreneur. This aim is pursued through a multidisciplinary and critical inquiry that destabilises this …
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THE RESILIENCE OF FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
How do female entrepreneurs build resilience in Nigeria? This study proposed an evidence-based female entrepreneurial resilience framework which demonstrates resilience building processes of female entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Previous studies established the value of resilience in enabling …
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Enterprising Identities; Female Entrepreneurs of Moroccan and Turkish Origin in The Netherlands
Contains fulltext : 69007.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Prospects and challenges for empowering female entrepreneurs in Africa – a Nigerian case study
… and investigates the prospects and challenges female entrepreneurs face in Nigeria and how they can be empowered to contribute more to economic development. The focus is to understand why many female entrepreneurs in Nigeria are primarily concentrated in the informal sector compared to their …
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Building blocks of a new economy : emerging roles for female entrepreneurs in Malaysia
… study highlights the role of women as entrepreneurs who spur micro-level reform with the potential to affect larger institutional change in Malaysia, arguably one of Asia's largest Muslim democracies. In a context where women make up 49% of the current population, government is …
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Doing entrepreneurship in Uganda : the social construction of gendered identities among male and female entrepreneurs
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-189)
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Economic and socio cultural experiences of female entrepreneurs in Brazil and the United States: an exploratorial and empirical analysis.
Over the last twenty years female entrepreneurs have been increasing in numbers in economies of developing and developed nations across the world. But although female entrepreneurship participation rates have increased worldwide, it appears that economic and socio cultural patterns still prescribe …
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Entrepreneurial Motivation of Female Entrepreneurs in UK Online Fashion Retailing: Personal and Social Situation of Women Entrepreneurs as Constraints on the Emergence of Entrepreneurship.
… the factors that motivate women to become entrepreneurs in UK online based micro-sized fashion retailing in the context of their personal situation and social situation. Understanding women’s entrepreneurial intention in their personal and social context can provide knowledge about how they …
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Female entrepreneurship in Nigeria: an investigation.
The significant contributions of female entrepreneurs to both the social and economic development of their various countries have been recognized over the past two decades. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found that between 17 and 41 percent of the female adult population set up new …
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Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women's micro businesses.
… possibilities. Nonetheless, poor rural female entrepreneurs use enterprise to try to improve their lives. But this survivalist entrepreneurship appears radically different from western models of enterprise and we know very little about processes and practices. Literature suggests that …
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The entrepreneurial process and the role of gender: a comparative study of entrepreneurs in the business services and technology sectors in Scotland.
The comparatively low levels of entrepreneurship in Scotland and in particular, low rates of female entrepreneurship are well documented and have been the focus of numerous government policies. In addition, there are specific issues regarding female entrepreneurship and whilst current literature …
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Impact of Credit on Female-Owned Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Small Business in Jamaica
… developing comprehensive training programs for female entrepreneurs.
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Changing society: pioneering women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia.
… the role of institutions influencing Saudi female entrepreneurs, and how they became enabled to be social agents and institutional entrepreneurs in a very traditional, family-orientated society - albeit facing pressures to change. In acknowledging the uniqueness of the social-cultural …
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
… key success elements that are characteristic of female entrepreneurs in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It offers useful information for aspiring business owners, those already on their entrepreneurial journey, and stakeholders who are decision-makers for entrepreneurship. There has been a lot of …
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Female entrepreneurship and access to finance in Nigeria through a gendered lens.
… explore and articulate the experiences of female entrepreneurs in Nigeria while accessing finance for business growth through a gendered lens. Despite the significant growth in the level of female entrepreneurship across the world - such as is seen in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand …
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Perceived educational needs of women entrepreneurs in a business incubator setting
… examine the past educational experiences women entrepreneurs had that related to the operation of their businesses in an incubator setting. The study also examined educational needs not adequately addressed for women entrepreneurs in this setting. Data were gathered by participant interview …
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An exploratory study on the use of social media as a business networking tool: the case of four female-owned fashion retail businesses in the Stellenbosch area, Cape Town
One major contribution to entrepreneurship in the past decade is the introduction of social media, which has changed the way in which businesses are operated. It is argued that using social media has signalled a departure for many businesses from the tradition of word-ofmouth advertising of …
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The Contribution of Microfinance Institutions on Poverty Reduction Among Women in Dar es Salaam
… employment level, saving and assets ownership by female entrepreneurs. In order to analyze the contribution of the microfinance institutions on the above mentioned parameters, primary data were collected through questionnaire from 100 respondents. The research found that, there was a significant …
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New Economics of Venture Capitalism? Assessing the Role of Remittances on Household Entrepreneurship
… receipt on the likelihood to engage in household entrepreneurship in Malawi using cross sectional data from the Fifth Malawi Integrated Household Survey 2019-2020 covering 11,434 households. Analysis is made using a bivariate Probit estimation technique on overall households, as well as …
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