ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the selection of articles from 2008 to 2015, examines how networks are defined, and describes commonalities in the research. It discusses how institutional perspectives can provide scholars with new angles on how to research gendered entrepreneurial networks. In evaluating whether gender perspectives have been more explicitly applied in the reviewed literature on networks and entrepreneurship, the chapter distinguishes between the commonly accepted categorisations in feminist theory: gender-as-variable (GAV), feminist standpoint theory (FST) and post-structural feminism (PSF). A commonality amongst the articles is that they all appeared to focus on the effects of gender as a binary variable on networks. Like their male counterparts, female entrepreneurs need to be effective networkers. The normative pillar incorporates values, expectations and standards, including roles, repertoires of action and conventions. The cultural-cognitive pillar encompasses predispositions and symbolic value as models for individual behaviour regarding an individual's engagement with entrepreneurship.
