Women Entrepreneurs and the Myth of ‘Underperformance’

A New Look at Women’s Entrepreneurship Research

Shumaila Yousafzai, Alain Fayolle, Adam Lindgreen, Colette Henry, Saadat Saeed (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2018
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78643-449-4 (ISBN)

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'A must read for all entrepreneurship scholars because it helps us to understand and appreciate the real and many roles of women entrepreneurs, their relevance and importance to societies across the World, as well as the challenges and issues women entrepreneurs can face. An exciting and interesting read which presents us with critical questions for the future - thank you.'
- Sarah Jack, Lancaster University Management School, UK

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 contexts.

Significantly, this book adds a critical perspective to defining ‘success’ and ‘performance’, shattering misconceptions of underperformance in women-owned enterprises. The contributing authors raise questions on the limiting concept of the ‘entrepreneur’ and have valuable insights into policies to facilitate female entrepreneurs. Instead of taking a one-sided and narrow approach with regards to understanding the entrepreneurship performance phenomenon, this book argues that future researchers should take a fresh look at business performance, considering structural constraints, definitions of success and other socio-political factors.

Scholars in the fields of entrepreneurship, gender studies, and institutional theory, as well as those who have a general interest in critical research, will benefit from this progressive step in entrepreneurship research.

Contributors include: R. Aidis, A. Akdeniz, H. Baiya, M. Boddington, D. Brozik, J.O. De Castro, L. Delgado-Márquez, S. Dewitt, W. Farraj, A. Fayolle, A.T. Hailemariam, C. Henry, C. Hoyte, B. Irene, J. Johansson, N. Jurik, R. Justo, A. Kamau, P. Kamau, G. Khoury, B. Kroon, A. Lindgreen, J. Lockyer, M. Malmström, M. Milliance, D. Muia, R. Narendran, J. Ndung'u, S. Saeed, N. Sappleton, S. Sheikh, F. Sist, S. Sultan, A. Voitkane, J. Wincent, S. Yousafzai, A. Zapalska

Edited by Shumaila Yousafzai, Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Cardiff University, UK, Alain Fayolle, Entrepreneurship Professor, IDRAC Business School, France and Visiting Professor, Turku School of Economics, Finland, Adam Lindgreen, Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Extraordinary Professor, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Colette Henry, Head of Department of Business Studies, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Ireland and Griffith University Australia, Saadat Saeed, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Durham University Business School, Durham University and Shandana Sheikh, Avicenna Medical and Dental College, Pakistan

Contents:

Introduction
Shumaila Yousafzai, Alain Fayolle, Adam Lindgreen, Colette Henry, Saadat Saeed and Shandana Sheikh

PART 1 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 2 Challenging underperformance hypothesis and acknowledging the constrained performance of women entrepreneurs
4. Hitting the top: Is there a glass ceiling for high-growth women entrepreneurs?
Ruta Aidis

5. Indigenous entrepreneurship: Māori female entrepreneurs in the tourism industry and constraints to their success
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 3 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’u

11. Challenges to formalization of Palestinian female-owned home-based businesses
Grace Khoury, Wojdan Farraj and Suhail Sultan

12. The influence of gender on social orientation and family-friendly policies in community-based enterprises in Brazil
Luisa Delgado-Márquez, Rachida Justo and Julio O. De Castro

PART 4 Moving Forward
13. Gender and business performance: 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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2018
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-78643-449-0 / 1786434490
ISBN-13	978-1-78643-449-4 / 9781786434494
Zustand	Neuware