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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Women’s entrepreneurship"”.
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Catalysts for Change? Women’s entrepreneurship, social structures, and gender norms in India
Contains fulltext : 232025.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Gender practices and the business-household nexus: Women’s entrepreneurship in São Paulo, Brazil
This study investigates how women’s entrepreneurship in the emerging economy of Brazil shapes traditional gender practices and power relations in the households and female-owned enterprises of the ‘ABC Paulista’, Greater São Paulo. Specifically, the thesis explores the business-household nexus and …
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Government intervention in women entrepreneurship development: opportunities and challenges for Bumiputera women entrepreneurs (BWEs) in the handicraft industry in Malaysia
… on the business survival of Bumiputera women entrepreneurs in the handicraft industry in Malaysia in which Bumiputera refers to the indigenous people and the largest population group in the country. The Malaysian handicraft industry is largely made up of Bumiputera women entrepreneurs …
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Embeddedness in the startup and growth of black women entrepreneurs in the West Midlands (UK)
Black women-owned businesses exhibit one of the highest rates of start-up activity, yet they also face the highest rates of failure. Despite this, there is a notable scarcity of research specifically addressing the entrepreneurial activities of black women. Existing literature predominantly focuses …
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Contextualising the Experiences of Mature Women Entrepreneurs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Entrepreneurship research and international development discourses are growingly stressing the burgeoning ageing population globally as a result of increased life expectancy. This is believed to disrupt the demand for state social welfare systems in the coming years, which will likely warrant …
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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.
… is to investigate 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 …
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Developing women entrepreneurs: the influence of enactus networks on women- owned SMMEs in Kwa Zulu-Natal
The extent to which women entrepreneurs interact with the entrepreneurial networks in their local environment as well as the impact that entrepreneurial networks bring to bear on the growth of women-owned Small, Medium, and Micro enterprises (SMMEs) during the process of developing their …
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Prospects and challenges for empowering female entrepreneurs in Africa – a Nigerian case study
… are dominating the formal industry and how these women can be empowered to engage more in business enterprises in the formal sector, which is believed to generate more revenue and income. Hence, women can contribute more to Nigeria's economic development. Using a qualitative methodological …
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Entrepreneurship and Identity among a group of Ghanaian women in Durban (South Africa)
African migrant entrepreneurship is fast becoming an increasingly important part of discourses of African migration to South Africa. This field of study is new in South Africa, because African women’s transnational activities have been neglected until now in studies on African entrepreneurship in …
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Exploring ICT-supported Formal Women Business Networks (eFWBNs) the case of Kenya and South Africa
… communication technology (ICT) supported formal women business networks (eFWBNs) and their contribution to the development of women entrepreneurs. For over a decade, studies on women’s entrepreneurship, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, have reiterated the importance of, and need for, …
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O impacto da cultura e dos valores humanistas no empoderamento das empreendedoras portuguesas: um estudo comparativo entre Portugal e o Brasil
A cultura em que os empreendedores se socializam é moldada pelos valores que orientam os seus comportamentos. Assim, o contexto sociocultural molda as orientações, decisões e práticas das empreendedoras. Contudo, persistem desigualdades de género e dinâmicas culturais que podem, simultaneamente, …