“Bargaining with Patriarchy” and Entrepreneurship: Narratives of Malay Muslim Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia

Selamat, Nor Hafizah; Endut, Noraida

doi:10.21315/km2020.38.s1.2

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“…Reflections on gender appear in fourth place. The most discussed sub-themes include the roles associated with each gender (Altan-Olcay, 2014; Hernandez et al, 2012;Kuschel et al, 2017;Selamat and Endut, 2020;Tlaiss and Kauser, 2019) and female empowerment (Gusti Ayu Purnamawati et al, 2020;Martiana et al, 2018;Thapa Karki and Xheneti, 2018).…”

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“…Among gender studies, those seeking to investigate the different influences of patriarchal restrictions on female entrepreneurship stand out. For instance, Selamat and Endut (2020, p. 13) explored “how the patriarchal bargain is being consciously and constantly exploited by women entrepreneurs to earn ‘space’ for them to run and manage their entrepreneurship activities.”…”

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Female entrepreneurship in emerging and developing countries: a systematic literature review

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Lima

et al. 2021

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PurposeDespite the increase in female entrepreneurship literature, very few studies exist that systematize the extant literature, especially in emerging and developing countries. This article fills part of this gap; it maps, categorizes and groups the objectives, theoretical approaches and research methods on female entrepreneurship conducted in one or more of the 155 emerging and developing countries.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted, using Scopus and Web of Science, over a 10-year timeframe (2010–2020). Out of 465 papers, 77 were selected for content analysis.FindingsMost articles focus on understanding women entrepreneurs' challenges, the factors affecting their entrepreneurial performance and encouraging entrepreneurship. Qualitative research was found to be the predominant approach, while mixed studies appeared less frequently.Practical implicationsThis paper sheds light on female entrepreneurship characteristics, including business competence, performance and entrepreneurial orientation. Further, it can help female entrepreneurs to recognize the most relevant aspects regarding performance, the essential driving factors and entrepreneurial motivations, among others.Originality/valueFirst, this paper groups the objectives and the theoretical and methodological approaches that guide female entrepreneurship research. Second, it identifies distinct gaps, grouped and explored using unpublished thematic categories. Finally, the authors propose an extensive future research agenda regarding female entrepreneurship in emerging and developing countries.

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Female entrepreneurship in emerging and developing countries: a systematic literature review

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Lima

et al. 2021

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“…For instance, entrepreneurship success is defined on terms of productivity, financial earnings, number of employees and working hours ignoring its sociopolitical results (Al-Dajani and Marlow, 2013). On the other hand, impacts of care responsibilities (Eib and Siegert, 2019), social constraints (Selamat and Endut, 2020) and violence (Johnson, 2020) are usually ignored in the entrepreneurship literature.…”

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Informal entrepreneurship and women's empowerment – the case of street vendors in urban Colombia

Duque

Moreno

2021

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PurposeInternational development organizations promote access to resources through self-employment as one of the main strategies to achieve women's empowerment. However, many self-employees are more similar to informal workers than to successful entrepreneurs affecting women's control over resources and their empowerment process. This article analyzes the relationship between informal entrepreneurship and female empowerment in the context of an emerging economy.Design/methodology/approachThe authors surveyed a sample of 295 female street vendors in Bogotá – Colombia. Contingency and correlational analysis is performed.FindingsEvidence is found about the expansion of women's capacity to make decisions about resource allocation and time managing because of informal entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, these decisions are not strategic nor given in a context with several options. Several structural constraints to the exercise of agency limit empowerment to an individual process dependent on circumstances instead of a collective process resulting in changes in women's social conditions.Research limitations/implicationsThis research allows for a better understanding of the potentialities and opportunities these entrepreneurships offer to women and what strategies could be implemented to take advantage of them.Practical implicationsDespite their characteristics, informal entrepreneurship has potentialities to improve female empowerment especially when factors beyond economic rationality, such as personal, familial and sociocultural, are considered.Originality/valueThe authors discuss the category of informal entrepreneurship in emerging economies and evaluate the success of this type of entrepreneurship with a gender point of view by incorporating empowerment as measure.

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“…The inherent attitude of a patriarchal society which claims that men are superior to women and that women are best suited to play the reproductive roles pose significant challenges for Malay Muslim women entrepreneurs [7]. Malay women entrepreneurs also must face many challenges in the business and economic sector as this field is monopolized by males and other ethnics in Malaysia [4].…”

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“…Thus, the Malaysian government has made many initiatives to encourage more Malay or Bumiputra (native people) to become entrepreneurs [5]. Past literatures highlighted that the Malaysian government has been very concerned about developing and promoting entrepreneurship especially for women entrepreneurs [6,7].…”

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Critical Dimensions of EQ among Malay Women Entrepreneur in Malaysia

Rani¹,

Krishnan²,

Suradi³

et al. 2021

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This paper highlights the dimensions of emotional quotients (EQ) of Malay women entrepreneurs who own either micro enterprises or small and medium size enterprises in Klang Valley, Malaysia. EQ comprise of five dimensions which are social skills, self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, and empathy. About 1000 questionnaires were distributed around Klang Valley, Malaysia, with a 20% response rate. Out of 200, only 169 questionnaires were able to be used for the analysis of this study. The findings show that the most important dimension of EQ during economic crisis was self-regulation followed by self-motivation, empathy, social skills, and self-awareness. After the economic crisis, the most important dimension was self-awareness followed by social skills, self-motivation, self-regulation, and empathy. Hence, emotional quotients are important for Malay women entrepreneurs during the economic crisis to remain positive and endure business challenges in managing their business operations for business sustainability. The findings also highlighted that after the economic crisis, the focus was more towards facing business challenges from employees, customers, and other stakeholders due to increasing demand in products/services and business activities. To conclude, all the elements of each dimension were considered important for Malay women entrepreneurs during and after the economic crisis.

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“Bargaining with Patriarchy” and Entrepreneurship: Narratives of Malay Muslim Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia

Cited by 13 publications

References 31 publications

Female entrepreneurship in emerging and developing countries: a systematic literature review

Female entrepreneurship in emerging and developing countries: a systematic literature review

Informal entrepreneurship and women's empowerment – the case of street vendors in urban Colombia

Critical Dimensions of EQ among Malay Women Entrepreneur in Malaysia

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