Global Women's Entrepreneurship Research: Diverse Settings, Questions and Approaches

摘要

The stark rise in female business proprietorship that has occurred over the past three decades has been accompanied by an unprecedented scholarly interest in the motivations, activities and experiences of women business owners. However, this literature suffers from three major deficiencies, the redressing of which is taken up in Global Women's Entrepreneurship Research: Diverse Settings, Questions and Approaches. First, published studies on female entrepreneurs are overwhelmingly North American-centric, which limits the generalizability of conclusions to other cultures and nations, and, perhaps more damagingly, serves in the 'othering' of women entrepreneurs in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.