An institutional perspective on borrowing discouragement among female-owned enterprises and the role of regional female empowerment

Forrester, Juanita Kimiyo; Neville, François

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106156

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“…There is research within the domain of entrepreneurship that specifies women-focused support, networks, and programs are effective in generating change and unsettling the masculine norm (Grandy & Mavin, 2020), but we still do not fully understand how women entrepreneurs can consolidate their entrepreneurial identities legitimately to create advantages for themselves while minimizing institutional barriers (Henry et al, 2021). As Forrester and Neville (2021, p. 3) argue “gender operates as a core component of one’s identity since it signals self-awareness of one’s membership within a particular social category and is continuously reinforced through social markers and relationships” and that “women must face the unique challenge of having to prove themselves as legitimate.”…”

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confidence: 99%

Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs

Arshed

Martin

Knox

2022

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This article explores how women entrepreneurs enact identity work to construct their identities at the intersection of gender and entrepreneurship while facing challenges to their legitimacy as entrepreneurs. These legitimacy challenges trigger reflections into who they are as entrepreneurs, and where they belong within entrepreneurial contexts. We draw on 24 focus groups with women entrepreneurs and 30 interviews with enterprise support organizations. We present a model which advances our understanding of the complex identities of women entrepreneurs and how their use of identity work enables them (or not) to become legitimate members of an entrepreneurial community.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs

Arshed

Martin

Knox

2022

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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“…Similarly, Forrester and Neville's (2021) study of US small businesses finds that women entrepreneurs exhibit gender‐based borrowing discouragement due to male‐typed business logic in entrepreneurship. The latter is shown to be a combination of two mechanisms, such as (i) lenders scrutinizing women‐owned enterprises more harshly in relation to business tasks that are typically perceived as masculine and involve agency, self‐interest, assertiveness, competitiveness, dominance, and growth; and (ii) women entrepreneurs presuming that they will be discriminated against when undertaking “male‐typed” tasks (e.g., seeking capital) and viewing the related efforts too costly psychologically and inefficient materially.…”

Section: Theory Developmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

Women's informal entrepreneurship through the lens of institutional voids and institutional logics

Ejaz

Grinevich

Karataş‐Özkan

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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In this conceptual paper, we respond to the calls for broader theoretical approaches that can coherently demonstrate a high degree of conceptual sensitivity to multiple combinations of institutional factors influencing women's informal entrepreneurship (WIE) and related agency. We do so by integrating constructs of gender and gender inequality with those of institutional logics and institutional voids. We find that a refined understanding of institutional voids is required to pave the way for a meaningful theoretical integration and empirical application of the related conceptualizations. We offer such a revised definition by placing formal and informal logics (rather than institutions) at the heart of it. In our theorizing, we propose that gender interplaying with formal and informal institutional logics create varying degrees of obscure and unique institutional voids that shape WIE prevalence. The proposed harmonized theoretical lens provides researchers with flexible yet consistent guidance for conducting context-specific empirical work that can coherently advance understanding of underlying logics shaping WIE and related agency.

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“…Since gender equality largely depends on the national context, mainly because of legislation as a formal pillar and social norms as an informal pillar of institutions (Ringblom and Johansson, 2020), the institutional theory is accepted in the paper as the theoretical framework of the research. The theory studies the influence of the institutional environment, consisting of social beliefs, norms, structures and social actors, on the behaviour of individuals and organizations (Forrester and Neville, 2021). Within the institutional theory, culture is treated as one of informal institutions.…”

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Female empowerment and masculinity – a cultural trait? Evidence from the CEE countries

Gaweł,

Mroczek-Dąbrowska,

Bartosik-Purgat

2023

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Purpose As women’s position in the economy and society is often explained by cultural factors, this study aims to verify whether the observed changes in female empowerment in the region of Central and East European (CEE) countries of the European Union (EU) are associated with masculinity as a cultural trait. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply the k-means clustering method to group CEE countries into clusters with similar levels of female empowerment in two time points – 2013 and 2019. Next, the authors examine the clusters and cross-reference them with the national culture’s masculinity to explore the interrelations between female empowerment and cultural traits in the CEE countries and their development in time. Findings The analyses reveal that female empowerment is not uniform or stable across the CEE countries. The masculinity level is not strongly related to women’s position in these countries, and changes in female empowerment are not closely linked to masculinity. Originality/value Despite the tumultuous history of women’s empowerment in the CEE countries, the issues related to gender equality and cultural traits pertaining to the region are relatively understudied in the literature. By focusing on the CEE region, the authors fill the gap in examining the independencies between female empowerment and cultural masculinity.

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An institutional perspective on borrowing discouragement among female-owned enterprises and the role of regional female empowerment

Cited by 18 publications

References 60 publications

Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs

Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs

Women's informal entrepreneurship through the lens of institutional voids and institutional logics

Female empowerment and masculinity – a cultural trait? Evidence from the CEE countries

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