Socio-cultural motivation in women’s entrepreneurship: Exploring the handloom industry in Assam

Goswami, Kishor; Hazarika, Bhabesh; Handique, Kalpana

doi:10.1080/12259276.2019.1637391

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“…This fact was obtained from the results of further interviews with the ina 1 , who dominated the trading process in traditional markets a week after the disaster. We identify the rise of entrepreneur motives, such as self-dependence and providing monetary support, to support family income as a medium to socially construct their gender roles 24 . As a result, the roles improve their resilient towards pressures from natural disaster effects.…”

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Understanding Women’s Psychological Well-Being in Post- Natural Disaster Recovery

Handayani¹,

Nurdin²

2021

MLU

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This study aims to understand psychological conditions of women during post-disaster recovery in Palu city Indonesia. The ethnic women in Palu city are known as the bulonggo (backbone), which describes their role, function, and position in the family. The focus of this study is to examine the psychological aspects of the wellbeing of Kailinese women, especially those who become victims of natural disasters and have lost their possessions. We conducted a survey on 200 women who live in two districts which experience severe earthquake and liquefaction. Through a psychological well-being scale adapted from Ryffand Keyes, the result was analyzed using factor analysis and interview methods. The findings indicate that among six dimensions of wellbeing proposed by Ryffand Keyes, personal growth and positive relationship are the most significant contributing factors to Kailinese women well-being during post-disaster recovery. The findings highlight the important of building personal growth and positive relationship among women community to develop their ability to recover from natural disaster distress. More importantly, as the personal growth and positive relationship contribute to Kailinese women's well-being, their roles as family backbone (bulonggo) in economics and social is also strengthened.

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Understanding Women’s Psychological Well-Being in Post- Natural Disaster Recovery

Handayani¹,

Nurdin²

2021

MLU

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“…The push factors, extrinsic in nature, and described as a supply factor, is often seen as factors that push people toward entrepreneurship as a desire to change current uncomfortable state to a desired one (Nguyen et al, 2020). Push factors motivate women to engage entrepreneurship owing to the forced reasons like the perception of necessity and societal pressures and are linked with dissatisfaction (Goswami et al, 2019). Studies demonstrated that individual sengage in entrepreneurship as a result of dissatisfaction with being unemployed or job salary (Nasiri & Hamelin, 2018), dissatisfaction with working hours which create an imbalance in work-life responsibilities (Özsungur, 2019), being an immigrant (Shinnar et al, 2019), or pursuing a family profession (Ramadani et al, 2017).…”

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Factors of Women Entrepreneurship in Egypt: A Qualitative Perspective

Borham,

Taib,

Sisodia

et al. 2023

Sage Open

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Extensive studies related to women’s entrepreneurial motivation are available in the western context, however, only a few studies are found focused on factors that motivate Egyptian women to engage in entrepreneurial activities. The study explores in-depth the motivations behind female entrepreneurs’ efforts to establish business ventures in Egypt. It analyses the influence of macrosocial realities and cultural values on the motivation for entrepreneurship. The finding demonstrates how post materialism factors motivate Egyptian women to embrace entrepreneurial activity as a way to maintaining “personal freedom”. The results demonstrate the impact of the Arab patriarchal culture on shaping the Egyptian women motivation. The qualitative research approach is adopted in this study to explore the entrepreneurial motivations of Egyptian women entrepreneurs. Through purposeful sampling, 20 women entrepreneurs were selected from five Egyptian governorates to administer a semi structured interview for the collection of primary data. The findings indicated that the motivation of Egyptian women entrepreneurs cover a variety of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Intrinsic motivations include maintaining personal freedom, satisfying their creative impulses, utilizing their knowledge derived from education training courses and work experiences, exploiting business opportunities, achieving a sense of self -actualization, improving social motivation. On the other hand, extrinsic factors include the inability to find a suitable job, death or illness of a family member, the need to supplement the family income, unfavorable job routine. The research on female entrepreneurs in the context of Egypt is essential as this study responded to calls for a thorough understanding of women’s entrepreneurial motivations. By studying these factors, the study would be able to show that motivations are unique and differentiate from other contexts.

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“…In our study, the kind of microenterprises we came across in our sample are primarily survivalist in nature in the sense that they are operated with the sole motive of earning a living and not profiteering or accumulation. Following contemporary studies (Bharti, 2014;Goswami et al, 2019;Manimekalai and Rajeswari, 2001;Shaw, 2004), we define a microenterprise as a selfemployment activity-mostly informal-related to petty business, agriculture [2] and allied activities pursued mainly by rural women to supplement household income. As the size of the…”

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Factors influencing micro-entrepreneurship among women SHG members of Sikkim: a propensity score matching approach

Prasad,

Choubey

2023

IJSE

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PurposeThe paper identifies the influence of socio-economic factors and livelihood training in stimulating micro-entrepreneurship among women self-help group (SHG) members.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on a sample of 416 women SHG members drawn from all the four districts of Sikkim using cluster sampling procedure. A multivariate binary logistic model is used to find the impact of socio-economic factors, and a Poisson regression has been used to find the impact of training on fostering micro-entrepreneurship. The result is validated using a propensity score matching approach which corrects for the potential self-selection bias in the sample. Subsequently, a covariate adjustment estimator verifies the robustness of the approach.FindingsThe study finds that “size of landownership”, “amount of loan borrowed”, “member's age”, “number of earning and dependent members”, “number of years of SHG enrolment” as well as the “district to which the member belongs to” have a statistically significant influence on the graduation of SHG members to micro-entrepreneurs. Furthermore, it is found that members attending the livelihood training programmes had a significantly higher number of microenterprises.Originality/valueThe study differentiates itself by providing empirical evidence on how socio-economic factors and livelihood training stimulate micro-entrepreneurship among SHG women of Sikkim, which has so far remained unexplored. Moreover, advanced econometric method has been used to eliminate the possible self-selection bias involved with training participation and thereby provides reliable and robust results.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-01-2023-0070

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Socio-cultural motivation in women’s entrepreneurship: Exploring the handloom industry in Assam

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Understanding Women’s Psychological Well-Being in Post- Natural Disaster Recovery

Understanding Women’s Psychological Well-Being in Post- Natural Disaster Recovery

Factors of Women Entrepreneurship in Egypt: A Qualitative Perspective

Factors influencing micro-entrepreneurship among women SHG members of Sikkim: a propensity score matching approach

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