Navigating institutional complexities

Langevang, Thilde; Hansen, Marit; Rutashobya, Lettice

doi:10.1108/ijge-02-2018-0015

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“…In developed countries, women's entrepreneurship has received scholarly attention; however, in emerging nations, such attention has been limited (Welsh et al, 2018). Prior studies have addressed the contemporary replacement of offline and online shopping (Dakduk et al, 2017), systematic mobile-device usage (Hossain et al, 2019a(Hossain et al, , 2019b(Hossain et al, , 2019c(Hossain et al, , 2019d, m-shopping behavior (Holmes et al, 2013), m-learning (Hossain et al, 2019a(Hossain et al, , 2019b(Hossain et al, , 2019c(Hossain et al, , 2019d, social networking and entrepreneurship (Hossain, 2019), the acceptance of smartphone-based m-shopping (Hubert et al, 2017), variety-seeking among university students (Hossain et al, 2019a(Hossain et al, , 2019b(Hossain et al, , 2019c(Hossain et al, , 2019d, women and apparel-based entrepreneurship (Hodges et al, 2015), coping with role conflict in entrepreneurial activities (Hundera et al, 2019), navigating institutional complexities (Langevang et al, 2018), the normative context for women's entrepreneurship (Roomi et al, 2018), women entrepreneurs in the Indian informal sector (Williams and Gurtoo, 2011), trajectory movement and entrepreneurial tendency (Hossain et al, 2019a(Hossain et al, , 2019b(Hossain et al, , 2019c(Hossain et al, , 2019d, factors affecting the success of women's entrepreneurship (Cabrera and Mauricio, 2017;Hossain et al, 2020) and entrepreneurial tendency among university students (Gürol and Atsan, 2006). However, specific studies on smartphone-based increased m-shopping behavior and an innovative entrepreneurial tendency among women in emerging Asia are limited.…”

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Smartphone-based m-shopping behavior and innovative entrepreneurial tendency among women in emerging Asia

Hossain

Nurunnabi

Hussain

et al. 2020

IJGE

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the ubiquitous role of the smartphone in expanding entrepreneurial opportunity among women in emerging Asia. This study attempted to explore the hidden issues behind increased innovative entrepreneurial tendency. Design/methodology/approach This study used a mixed research methodology. First, prior research based on different aspects of entrepreneurial tendency was reviewed in a systematic way. Second, a person-administered survey was conducted based on 265 women who are involved in entrepreneurial activities in different regions in Asia. Structural equation modeling (Amos) is used to analyze the person-administered survey. Findings Results show a significant relationship among the independent and dependent variables of the study which indicates a significant entrepreneurship opportunity for women in emerging Asia. Research limitations/implications This study was conducted with a limited number of entrepreneurs from a few Asian countries which may affect the generalizability of the result. Originality/value This study fulfills the gap in the current literature by analyzing innovativeness in entrepreneurship with the usage of smartphones and increased tendency among women to conduct business.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Smartphone-based m-shopping behavior and innovative entrepreneurial tendency among women in emerging Asia

Hossain

Nurunnabi

Hussain

et al. 2020

IJGE

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“…In terms of practitioner oriented scholarship, I would note and thank the authors of the following works published in IJGE that I believe can serve as guidepost and even models of this type of bridging: Orser et al (2019); Katre (2019); Rosenbaum (2019); Smith and Neergaard (2015); and Langevang et al (2018).…”

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Strengthening the contribution of scholarship to equity in practice for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship

Nelson

2020

IJGE

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Purpose This paper aims to discuss the ways to strengthen the contribution of scholarship to gender equity in practice for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. Research that spotlights gender construction and enactment, including its origins and its discriminatory effects on people, is inherently social action to the degree that it motivates institutional change. For this 10th year recognition of the founding of the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, the four waves of feminism framework is used to consider our conceptual domain and select practitioners in the gender × entrepreneurship field are interviewed for input on-field needs. Findings are that academics can boost equity in practice by doing original research and promoting research that is more representative, sharing specialized scholarship skills in activist arenas, making the results of academic research available to practitioners and policymakers, and reviewing and validating (or discrediting) information circulating in public spheres. Design/methodology/approach This reflective essay is designed to consider the relevance of scholarship in gender and entrepreneurship to practitioners who participate in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The concept of the temporal waves of feminism, plus interviews with international practitioners, are used to inform the issues. Findings Findings are that academics can boost equity in practice by doing original research and promoting research that is more representative, sharing specialized scholarship skills in activist arenas, making the results of academic research available to practitioners and policymakers, and reviewing and validating (or discrediting) information circulating in public spheres. Originality/value Scholars of gender and entrepreneurship can look for and create access and meaning for their work with and for practitioners. Bridges to scholarship on gender (e.g. in psychology, anthropology, gender studies, social psychology) can be built to stay current and effective.

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“…Some women, for example, in the diner industry in the US, use their motherly identity when they interact with the college student clientele, whereas other women go into business with their children (Anderson, 2008). In Western contexts in particular, such as Sweden, women entrepreneurs have access to childcare facilities (Pettersson & Cassel, 2014), which, while necessary, are largely absent in Tanzania and Kyela, in particular (Langevang et al, 2018). Men might also assume the carer responsibilities.…”

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“…Unfortunately, change in this direction seems limited and may be reversed, as has been reported to be the case amongst some men in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (Pierotti et al, 2018). Thus, the ability to balance work and family affairs seems critical for women business owners (Gherardi & Poggio, 2001;Langevang et al, 2018).…”

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“…In agriculture, men tend to control the trading of cash crops, whereas women control the trading of food crops such as rice (Doss, 2002;Njuki et al, 2011). There has been increased attention on examining factors leading to such inequalities in various economic and social spheres (Amine & Staub, 2009;Langevang et al, 2018;Lusiba et al, 2017;Rutashobya et al, 2009), including business, agriculture and their resulting outcomes. However, the question of how women and men perform as normatively expected of a particular sex category-that is, "doing gender", in terms of gendered identities, interaction, symbols, and division of labour, location in space and power, has largely been overlooked.…”

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Doing and undoing gender in rice business and marketplaces in Tanzania

Ilomo

Rutashobya

Ishengoma

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Cogent Social Sciences

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This paper contributes to the gender-and-marketplace literature by exploring whether and how the ongoing, under-researched food-to-cash crop transformation of rice in Tanzania reinforces or challenges the "doing of gender". We apply Acker's "doing gender" framework, where gender is done by following normative conceptions and undone by challenging them. We analyze women and men's everyday practices and relations in terms of identities, divisions, symbols and interactions. The empirical material includes observations, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with women and men traders, farmers and key informants at two rice markets in Kyela, south-western Tanzania. We find that this transformation of rice has resulted in more processes of doing than undoing gender. Too, more women than men undo gender. Since men and masculinity are constructed as superior to women and femininity, this makes it more difficult for men to undo gender. The structures of the marketplaces also seem to influence these processes. Surprisingly, the old marketplace offers more avenues to undo gender, whereas the new, government-initiated marketplace reinforces the doing of gender.

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Navigating institutional complexities

Cited by 28 publications

References 40 publications

Smartphone-based m-shopping behavior and innovative entrepreneurial tendency among women in emerging Asia

Smartphone-based m-shopping behavior and innovative entrepreneurial tendency among women in emerging Asia

Strengthening the contribution of scholarship to equity in practice for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship

Doing and undoing gender in rice business and marketplaces in Tanzania

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