ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the stream of research into women's entrepreneurship by identifying configurations of leadership theories (CLTs) and cultural practices that lead to increased participation of women in entrepreneurial leadership. The topic of women participating in entrepreneurial leadership has received increasingly more attention from academics. In this context, it would be helpful to understand which environments encourage women to make such moves. Thus, societal culture could help explain rates of women's self-employment. Culture is an important issue in business research and the GLOBE study conducted by House et al. identified several cultural dimensions that relate culture to leadership. Following Stephan and Pathak, focuses on uncertainty avoidance practices (UAP) and in-group collectivism practices (ICP) because individualism/collectivism and uncertainty avoidance have been suggested to be the cultural dimensions that have the most influence on entrepreneurship. In general, participation in entrepreneurial leadership implies the acceptance of uncertainty.
