ABSTRACT
Contextual Embeddedness of Women’s Entrepreneurship brings together a range of research that provides powerful insights into the influences and restraints within a diverse set of gendered contexts including social, political, institutional, religious, patriarchal, cultural, family, and economic, in which female entrepreneurs around the world operate their businesses. In doing so, the contributing authors demonstrate not only the importance of studying the contexts in how they shape women’s entrepreneurial activities, but also how female entrepreneurs through their endeavours modify these contexts.
Collectively, the edited collection’s studies make a substantial contribution to the contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurial activity, provide numerous insights, and provoke fruitful directions for future research on the important role of the contexts in which women’s entrepreneurial activities take place.
This innovative and wide-ranging research anthology seeks to reframe and redirect research on gender and entrepreneurship and will appeal to all those interested in learning more about female entrepreneurship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|87 pages
Religious embeddedness of women entrepreneurship in the Islamic context
chapter 1|15 pages
Behind the green line
chapter 2|15 pages
If policy (half-heartedly) says 'yes', but patriarchy says 'no'
chapter 3|13 pages
Gendered expectations and ideologies of patriarchy
chapter 5|14 pages
Leveraging micro-level support factors to overcome macro-level challenges
chapter 6|14 pages
Women's entrepreneurship in Turkey
section 2|170 pages
Gendered embeddedness of women's entrepreneurial activity in the entrepreneurship ecosystem
chapter 8|13 pages
Gender embeddedness in patriarchal contexts undergoing institutional change
chapter 9|20 pages
Opportunity creation for female entrepreneurs in the Welsh and Turkish entrepreneurial ecosystem
chapter 13|14 pages
Women's entrepreneurial realities in the Czech Republic and the United States
chapter 14|12 pages
Women's entrepreneurship in Swedish forestry
chapter 16|14 pages
Developing an understanding of entrepreneurship intertwined with motherhood
section 3|26 pages
Moving forward