Encouraging Female Entrepreneurship in Jordan: Environmental Factors, Obstacles and Challenges

Mehtap, Salime; Caputo, Andrea; Pellegrini, Massimiliano Matteo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39679-8_13

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“…Family or the immediate social environment plays a major role in constraining any type of public activity, consequently discouraging female entrepreneurship and leadership. Females are generally perceived as being submissive and subservient to the male gender, a social reality which is "more prevalent in Islamic contexts, which are characterized by conservative and patriarchal societies" (Mehtap et al, 2016).…”

Section: Digital Entrepreneurs and The Multitasking Whirlpoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Distinguished” women entrepreneurs in the digital economy and the multitasking whirlpool

Kamberidou

2020

J Innov Entrep

129

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How are women entrepreneurs transforming and challenging traditional understandings of professional success in the 21st century, despite the multitasking whirlpool? What type of knowledge and skills are required in today's digital world to develop professionally and succeed as an entrepreneur? What are the major barriers to successful entrepreneurship preventing women from realizing their full potential or stopping them from even beginning an entrepreneurial career? A current literature review (2011-2019) on women's entrepreneurial initiatives, skills, characteristics, attributes, motives and leadership styles, documenting strategies for success and barriers confronted, indicates that not much has changed. Women entrepreneurs continue to face the multitasking whirlpool, along with the lack of financial resources, marketing skills and support services, including poor access to business networks, technology and digital markets. Despite the mass entry of women in exclusively male domains, glass ceilings have not been shattered. Then again, developed and developing nations have come to understand that women's entrepreneurial activities contribute to socioeconomic growth and utilizing the full potential of all human resources is essential for sustainable development. Studies of the 21st century-as those of the late 20th century-continue to spotlight gender gaps in entrepreneurship as well as the sovalued career-family balance, while still arguing that further research is needed. They also agree that successful entrepreneurship requires digital skills along with the drive for innovation. The successful entrepreneur, or to use a term and concept coined by Elias G. Carayannis and McDonald R. Stewart (2013), the "distinguished entrepreneur" regardless of gender, is an innovator; a visionary; a person who predicts and shapes the future; takes initiatives; accepts change, risk and failure; learns from it; and sees what others do not see, among other things. Accordingly, this study presents snapshots of lives changed and empowered. It includes the work and narratives of "distinguished" (Carayannis & Stewart 2013) women entrepreneurs who have made a difference. Is it not time to shed some light on inspirational role models, especially those who are excelling in the startup world, the Blue Economy and the Silver Economy?

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Section: Digital Entrepreneurs and The Multitasking Whirlpoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Distinguished” women entrepreneurs in the digital economy and the multitasking whirlpool

Kamberidou

2020

J Innov Entrep

129

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“…Education plays an important role in entrepreneurial activities but not only education is necessary, but the support from the university is also important for nurturing the business. Mehtap et al (2017) also argued that providing practical education on entrepreneurship and necessary skills to the female students help them in their future entrepreneurial activities.…”

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Towards nurturing the entrepreneurial intentions of neglected female business students of Pakistan through proactive personality, self-efficacy and university support factors

Hussain¹

2018

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Purpose Nowadays in the competitive economy, the field of entrepreneurship and particularly female entrepreneurship is rapidly advancing, and its contribution to the economy is imperative. Consequently, the female business students’ factors and university support factors are imperative to nurture the entrepreneurial intentions, but the literature does not address them at large. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of proactive personality, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and perceived university support factors on female student’s entrepreneurial intentions. Design/methodology/approach The data from a total of 306 female students from the business schools of universities of Pakistan is collected through the personal physical-survey questionnaires. The data were then analyzed through Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) technique for results. Findings The results indicate that the proactive personality, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and university support factors are the significant predictors of entrepreneurial intentions of female students. Moreover, the results also support that entrepreneurial self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intentions of female students. Originality/value To the best of authors’ knowledge, the study originality lies in the testing of university support factors and individual personality factors (entrepreneurial self-efficacy and proactive personality) as the predictors of entrepreneurial intentions. Moreover, the present study provides the useful insight for the policymakers in formulating, delivering and evaluating educational policies into the universities for female students.

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“…A greater proportion of the Asian female entrepreneurs depend majorly on financial support from their own economizing, family, and friends FS and a small number of loans from commercial banks. Financial support plays a huge role in starring a new business because according to Mehtap, Caputo, and Pellegrini (2017a), female entrepreneurs with a new business idea would mainly want to accumulate the entire essential resources majorly including capital and money to venture into the business as well as the market. FS is the part of the process, as certain businesses would need large start-up collections than single females would not have and these start-ups FS are necessary to kick-start a business concept because, without it, female entrepreneurs would not have the skills to carry out their ideas in the market and business world.…”

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Comparative Study of the Factors of Female Entrepreneurship in China and Pakistan

Gul¹,

Wu²,

Khan³

2021

JSS

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Entrepreneurship has become very popular in the recent times and people are pursuing opportunities for new venture creation in different sectors. The phenomenon of "female entrepreneurship" is gaining wide popularity worldwide and now the interest of women in carrying out entrepreneurial activities is also increasing owing to the female empowerment in societies. The female entrepreneurs are highly affected by social, personality and institutional factors that motivate and encourage them in their entrepreneurial activities. The purpose of this study is to find out the impact of social support, financial support, entrepreneurial knowledge and achievement orientation on female entrepreneurial intention along with the mediating impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. For this purpose, the data was collected from 311 respondents from China and 311 from Pakistan through the administration of questionnaire. SPSS and AMOS were used for analysis and structural equation modelling has been used. The results have suggested that in case of China, all independent variables have significant impacts on female entrepreneurial intention but in case of Pakistan, financial support does not have the significant impact on female entrepreneurial intention. On the other hand, in case of China, the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy is significant in all cases, but in case of Pakistan, this mediating role is not significant in case of entrepreneurial knowledge.

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Encouraging Female Entrepreneurship in Jordan: Environmental Factors, Obstacles and Challenges

Cited by 24 publications

References 88 publications

“Distinguished” women entrepreneurs in the digital economy and the multitasking whirlpool

“Distinguished” women entrepreneurs in the digital economy and the multitasking whirlpool

Towards nurturing the entrepreneurial intentions of neglected female business students of Pakistan through proactive personality, self-efficacy and university support factors

Comparative Study of the Factors of Female Entrepreneurship in China and Pakistan

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