International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Volume 12 Issue 2

Ranking the enablers promoting female empowerment in the UAE health care sector

Mehrajunnisa Mehrajunnisa, Fauzia Jabeen

The purpose of this study is to identify and rank the enablers that promote female empowerment in the health-care sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Teams in new ventures: gender, human capital and motivation

Roy Cerqueti, Caterina Lucarelli, Nicoletta Marinelli, Alessandra Micozzi

This paper aims to dismantle the idea that sex per se explains entrepreneurial outcomes and demonstrates the influence of a gendered motivation on forging and shaping new venture…

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

Syed Far Abid Hossain, Mohammad Nurunnabi, Khalid Hussain, Xu Shan

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…

A gender- and class-sensitive explanatory model for rural women entrepreneurship in Turkey

Bengu Kurtege Sefer

The purpose of this paper is to offer a new gender- and class-sensitive framework for research on rural women entrepreneurship by focusing on the women’s agricultural cooperatives…

Performance drivers of women-owned microcredit funded enterprises in Tanzania

Charles Stephen Tundui, Hawa Petro Tundui

The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance drivers of women-owned businesses that are funded primarily through microcredit. It draws on Storey’s theory of small…