Action learning through radio: exploring conceptual views and lived experiences of women entrepreneurs

Akobo, Loliya Agbani

doi:10.1080/14767333.2018.1509838

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“…Contextualizing entrepreneurship draws attention to different normative perceptions of who should be an entrepreneur and how they should "do" or enact entrepreneurship in different regions and different places (Anderson and Gaddefors 2017)-the social embeddedness of women's entrepreneurship (Bastian et al 2018). This highlights gendered perspective of entrepreneurship (Ahl and Marlow 2012), especially in the Global South (Ramirez-Pasillas et al 2017;Welter et al 2019), where women may have different entrepreneurial experiences (Akobo 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Global South: Empowering and Emancipating?

Ojediran

Anderson

2020

Administrative Sciences

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This paper addresses the following questions: Are women entrepreneurs empowered by entrepreneurship, and critically, does entrepreneurship offer emancipation? Our theoretical position is that entrepreneurship is socially embedded and must be recognized as a social process with economic outcomes. Accordingly, questions of empowerment must take full account of the context in which entrepreneurship takes place. We argue that institutions—formal and informal, cultural, social, and political—create gendered contexts in the Global South, where women’s entrepreneurship is subjugated and treated as inferior and second class. Our thematic review of a broad scope of the literature demonstrates that in different regions of the Global South, women entrepreneurs confront many impediments and that this shapes their practices. We show how the interplay of tradition, culture, and patriarchy seem to conspire to subordinate their efforts. Yet, we also recognize how entrepreneurial agency chips away and is beginning to erode these bastions, in particular, how role models establish examples that undermine patriarchy. We conclude that entrepreneurship can empower but modestly and slowly. Some independence is achieved, but emancipation is a long, slow game.

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Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Global South: Empowering and Emancipating?

Ojediran

Anderson

2020

Administrative Sciences

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“…The results of this study confirm the centrality of the academic knowledge in the Global North [14], which influences the study of topics that may not be a priority for the Global South. However, there is evidence of some efforts to address topics that are more related to the Global South reality, such as women's entrepreneurship; a relevant topic for some developing countries where entrepreneurship is a gendered topic because women entrepreneurs have to face many barriers related to their culture and patriarchy [4,17,20,21]. In addition, women's entrepreneurship is a matter that acquires special interest in the Global South because it could contribute to creating wealth, jobs, and welfare in developing countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some developing countries create gender contexts in which women entrepreneurs are seen as inferior, forcing them to face many barriers related to their culture [17]. Therefore, women in the Global South may have different entrepreneurial experiences [20], and the study of these differences is a crucial aspect for the region considering that entrepreneurship could contribute to solving numerous problems that they have by creating wealth, more jobs, and social welfare in low-income countries [4,21].…”

Section: Scientific Research In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Entrepreneurship as a Field of Knowledge: Analyzing the Global South

Contreras

Dornberger

2022

Sustainability

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The objective of this study is to characterize the contribution to sustainable entrepreneurship as a field of knowledge from developing countries, also called the Global South, through the analysis of the literature that has been produced in the last two decades. This research starts from the premise of the dominance of the Global North over academic production on this topic and analyzes the consequences for the Global South. Through VOSViewer software, and Biblioshiny, a web interface of bibliometrix R-package, 1964 articles that were retrieved from the WoS database were analyzed. According to the results, the dominance of the Global North is confirmed, not only by the number of articles (63% vs. 22% of the Global South), but also by the impact on the publications, the publishing systems, and the thematic addressed, among other indicators. Likewise, the low North–South collaboration (15%), and the scarce collaboration networks between Southern countries, were also confirmed. This situation may have affected the formation of a critical mass of Southern researchers to develop their own concepts and address subjects related to sustainable entrepreneurship that are more adjusted to their reality. We did not find significant differences between the Southern and the Northern research themes or the emergence of new concepts from the Global South, despite their different conditions. Finally, a closer look at the thematic trajectory in terms of scholarly production shows a lesser emphasis on sustainability in the Global South than that in the Global North. These findings are discussed herein.

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“…For example, women are drawn to business ownership as a career because it offers them a high degree of autonomy, self-fulfillment, and independence (Powell and Eddleston, 2008). Yet, many women continue to face discrimination even after venture creation resulting in varying levels of well-being (Ahl and Marlow, 2012;Akobo, 2018). The positive relationship between income and empowerment found in the Western context may not apply to women in developing countries where patriarchy and socio-cultural norms may prevent the translation of earnings into empowerment (Al-Dajani and Marlow, 2013).…”

Section: Women's Entrepreneurship At the Base Of The Pyramidmentioning

confidence: 99%