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Women of Enterprise: A Study of Success and Failure Incidents From Self-Employed Women Using the Perspectives of Bakan's Constructs of Agency and Communion and Attribution Theory

Flexman, Nancy AnnUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate how self-employed women interpret the entrepreneurial experience. More specifically, success and failure incidents described by self-employed women were examined with regard to two types of meanings, agentic and communal, and with regard to the caus

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Elder care, self-employed women and work-family balance: an exploration using work-family border theory : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Studies in Human Resource Management at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Bourke, Josephine Emily2009

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Trapped in ideology. The limitations of micro-finance in helping women creating viable micro-businesses

Desmedt, EmmanuelleUniversity of York2010

… a viable alternative to waged employment for women, as is the current international policy claim. To answer this question, I compared the accounts of 22 micro-finance agency employees in the UK and in Belgium with those of 20 self-employed women who received support from these agencies. The …

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Women's Bargaining Power in the Household: Self -Employment Versus Wage Employment Among Low -Income Women in India

Deva, VrindaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

What's unique and interesting about these self-employed women is the immense shift in the amount of power they wield in the household context in a context where they have traditionally had limited power. This study finds that the women receiving some support from NGOs undoubtedly have more …

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