International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 30 Issue 7

Guest editorial: Exploring entrepreneurship policy in a global context: a gender perspective

Colette Henry, Joan Ballantine, Marcus Dejardin, Helle Neergaard, Alena Křížková

The implications of economic freedom and gender ideologies on women's opportunity-to-necessity entrepreneurship

Diana M. Hechavarría, Maribel Guerrero, Siri Terjesen, Azucena Grady

This study explores the relationship between economic freedom and gender ideologies on the allocation of women’s opportunity-to-necessity entrepreneurship across countries…

Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy

Helene Ahl, Karin Berglund, Katarina Pettersson, Malin Tillmar

Policy for women's entrepreneurship is designed to promote economic growth, not least in depleted rural areas, but very little is known about the contributions of rural women…

Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis

Anne-Charlott Callerstig, Marta Lindvert, Elisabet Carine Ljunggren, Marit Breivik-Meyer, Gry Agnete Alsos, Dag Balkmar

In order to address the gender divide in technology entrepreneurship, we explore how different national contexts impact policies and policy implementation. We investigate how…

Empowering migrant women's entrepreneurship: stakeholder perspectives from the entrepreneurial ecosystem

Raushan Aman, Maria Elo, Petri Ahokangas, Xiaotian Zhang

Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) research has focused on high-growth scale-up entrepreneurship, whereas the role of EEs in nurturing the ventures of marginalised groups like…

Pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities is not a choice: the interplay between gender norms, contextual embeddedness, and (in)equality mechanisms in entrepreneurial contexts

Saskia Stoker, Sue Rossano-Rivero, Sarah Davis, Ingrid Wakkee, Iulia Stroila

All entrepreneurs interact simultaneously with multiple entrepreneurial contexts throughout their entrepreneurial journey. This conceptual paper has two central aims: (1) it…

Gender and entrepreneurial intention in low-income countries: the relative roles played by anticipated financial returns versus perceived barriers for university students in Sierra Leone

Wendy A. Bradley, Caroline Fry

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the extent to which female and male university students from low-income countries express different entrepreneurial intentions…

Breaking barriers and bridging gaps: the influence of entrepreneurship policies on women’s entry into entrepreneurship

Ali Raza, Shumaila Yousafzai, Saadat Saeed

How does the interplay between entrepreneurship policies and both formal and informal gender equality affect women’s inclination towards self-employment in contrast to men?

Gender-based policies and women’s entrepreneurship: an fsQCA analysis of sub-Saharan African countries

Abiodun Samuel Adegbile, Oyedele Martins Ogundana, Sola Adesola

Entrepreneurship policy is a vital component of any entrepreneurial ecosystem. However, the specific policy initiatives that have a greater impact on women's entrepreneurship…

The impact of local entrepreneurial initiatives on women entrepreneur empowerment: the case of cooperative social ventures in Morocco

Rachid Jabbouri, Yann Truong, Helmi Issa

We explore how NGO’s local entrepreneurial initiatives to empower women entrepreneurs can compensate for weak state policies for women in a context of male-dominated…

Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions

Birgitte Karlstrøm, Tiril Marie Jansen, Marte C.W. Solheim

The venture capital industry is an important provider of capital to start-ups and has grown considerably in recent decades. This study explores how investors' gender perceptions…

Awareness of enterprise finance support programmes: the role of networks, gender and ethnicity

Samuel Mwaura, Stephen Knox

This paper investigates how gender, ethnicity, and network membership interact to influence how small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owner-managers become aware of finance…

Ideas for bridging the academic-policy divide at the nexus of gender and entrepreneurship

Jessica Carlson, Jennifer Jennings

Inspired by the “responsibility turn” in the broader organization/management literature, the overarching aim of this article is to help scholars working at the…

Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy

Oliver Mallett, Robert Wapshott, Nazila Wilson

This research paper generates new insights into the challenges of implementation in women’s enterprise policy. It argues that organisations involved in policy implementation need…