1st Edition

Women and Global Entrepreneurship Contextualising Everyday Experiences

Edited By Maura McAdam, James Cunningham Copyright 2021
374 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

374 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

374 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Entrepreneurship in context has been described as the third wave in entrepreneurship research. Accordingly, specific socio-economic, political, market, and institutional contexts are key to fostering, enabling, and enacting entrepreneurial activity and behaviours. These contexts shape everyday entrepreneurship experiences. This book is based on the premise that how gender is articulated within... Read more

1. Women and Global Entrepreneurship: Contextualising Everyday Experiences

Maura McAdam and James A Cunningham 

Part I: Where it happens 

2. Tackling (un)freedoms: The Challenge for Women Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean

Talia Esnard 

3. Doing gender and entrepreneurial success: Contextualizing the experience of Arab entrepreneurs

Hayfaa Tlaiss 

4. Everyday Experiences of Rural Female Entrepreneurs in Uganda: The Impact of Entrepreneurship Training on Business Knowledge and Emancipation

Sylvia K. Gavigan, Klavs Ciprikis and Tom Cooney 

5. The Economic Integration of Women Refugee Entrepreneurs in New Zealand

Nadeera Ranabahu, Huibert P. de Vries, and Zhiyan Basharati 

6. Topography of Marginalities: Asylum Seeking Women Entrepreneurs in Israel

Sibylle Heilbrunn 

7. Religion, Caste, Ethnicity, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Women-Owned Small Firms in India

Yuko Nikaido and Jesim Pais 

8. Women’s entrepreneurship in the context of a matriarchal society in Indonesia

Dian Mayasari, David Littlewood and Abbi Kedir 

9. Out of the Fire and into the Frying Pan: When Women Leave Corporate Careers to Enter Entrepreneurship – Insights from Denmark

Helle Neegaard and Anne Carlsen

Part II: Who it happens to  

10. ‘Making’ and ‘doing’ context: Sharing in an all Female Co-Working Hub

Gabriel Griffin 

11. How They Overcome: Minority Context, Resilience, and Black and Hispanic Women Entrepreneurs in the U.S.

Maria V. Lugo, and Lois M. Shelton 

12. Examining Female Underperformance Hypothesis from a Cultural-Institutions Perspective

Punit Arora 

13. Gendered returns to education for self-employed U.S. Millennials: A call for research

Jessica K. Simon and Megan McDonald Way 

14. Exploring Re-masculinization of Educational Practices in Entrepreneurship: a Global Dilemma?

Maria Aggestam, Caroline Wigren-Kristoferson and Karin Hellerstedts

15. Women’s Entrepreneurship and Changes in Institutional Context – Changes in Sweden’s Welfare System and Effects on Patriarchal Regimes

Carin Holmquist and Elisabeth Sundin

Part III When it happens 

16. The Intellectual Structure of Research on women’s entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries

João J. Ferreira, Pedro M. Veiga, Cristina I. Fernandes 

17. Constraining Contexts in the Creative and Cultural Industries: Women Entrepreneurs in Architecture

Mary Spaeth 

18. Women’s Involvement in Chinese Family Business

Huiping Xian and Johanna Jiang 

19. Contextualizing CEO’s Experiences and Perspectives: The Multiple Paths to Social Venturing

Patricia Gabaldon and Isabel Garcialomas Drake 

20. Contextualizing the experiences of women entrepreneurs and comparative responses to challenges during a global pandemic

Susan Clark Muntean

Biography

Maura McAdam is Professor of Management and Director of Entrepreneurship at Dublin City University, Ireland.

James A. Cunningham is Professor of Strategic Management and Director of Research and Innovation at the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy at Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University, UK.