Women entrepreneurship and the myth of 'underperformance' : a new look at women's entrepreneurship research / edited by Shumaila Yousafzai, Alain Fayolle, Adam Lindgreen, Colette Henry, Saadat Saeed, and Shandana Sheikh.

Taking a fresh look at how performance is defined by examining the institutional power structures and policies, eminent scholars herein explore ways to overcome constrained performance and encourage women's entrepreneurial activities through a variety of methodological approaches and geographical co...

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Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing (Publisher)
Other Authors: Yousafzai, Shumaila Y. (Shumaila Yakub) (Editor)
Fayolle, Alain (Editor)
Lindgreen, Adam (Editor)
Henry, Colette (Editor)
Saʻīd, Saʻādat (Editor)
Sheikh, Shandana (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018.
Subjects:
Businesswomen.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Elgar Online)
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Part I Performance, success and value in entrepreneurship: a women's perspective
  • 1. Redefining success beyond economic growth and wealth generation: the case of Ethiopia / Atsede T. Hailemariam and Brigitte Kroon
  • 2. Value creation through women's entrepreneurship / Shandana Sheikh, Shumaila Yousafzai, Federica Sist, Aybeniz Akdeniz and Saadat Saeed
  • 3. Stepping into power: women leaders and their journey of self-redefinition / Milka Milliance
  • Part II Challenging underperformance hypothesis and acknowledging constrained performance of women entrepreneurs
  • 4. Hitting the top: is there a glass ceiling for high growth women entrepreneurs? / Ruta Aidis
  • 5. Indigenous entrepreneurship and constraints to their success: Māori female entrepreneurs in tourism industry / Alina Zapalska and Dallas Brozik
  • 6. Women entrepreneurs in South Africa: maintaining a balance between culture, personal life and business / Bridget Irene
  • 7. How vague entrepreneurial identities of Swedish women entrepreneurs are performed by the government financiers / Aija Voitkane, Jeaneth Johansson, Malin Malmström, and Joakim Wincent
  • 8. Socially constructed masculine domination: officials' perception of female entrepreneurs in Kerala, India / Roshni Narendran
  • Part III Overcoming constrained performance: facilitating women entrepreneurs
  • 9. Exploring alternative gendered social structures within entrepreneurship education - notes from a women's only enterprise programme in the United Kingdom / Monique Boddington and Shima Barakat
  • 10. Bridging entrepreneurial gender gap through social protection among women small scale traders in Kenya / Anne Kamau, Paul Kamau, Daniel Muia, Harun Baiya, and Jane Ndung
  • 11. Challenges to formalization of Palestinian female-owned home-based businesses / Grace Khory, Wojdan Farazj and Suhail Sultan
  • 12. The influence of gender on social orientation and the implementation of family-friendly policies in community-based enterprises in Brazil / Luisa Delgado, Rachida Justo, Julio De Castro
  • PArt IV Moving Forward
  • 13. Gender and 'under performance' of female owned enterprises: The role of entrepreneurial segregation / Natalie Sappleton
  • 14. Still bringing up the rear: why women will always be 'Other' in entrepreneurship's masculine instrumental discourse / Joan Lockyer, Cherisse Hoyte, and Sunita Dewitt
  • Index.