Building gender-aware ecosystems for learning, leadership, and growth

Hughes, Karen D.; Yang, Te

doi:10.1108/gm-11-2019-0215

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“…Most of this studies have not considered the role of gender in influencing the performance and resilience of small-medium enterprises especially dairy agripreneurs in Kenya. Positive change of entrepreneurs' traits, behaviors, and their thinking as a result of entrepreneurial orientation is different between men and women entrepreneurs (Hughes & Yang, 2020). Entrepreneurial orientation has several dimensions (risk orientation, market orientation, social orientation and future orientation) of which each may be embraced differently by men and women leading to difference in performance and resilience levels by gender.…”

Section: Gender and Entrepreneurial Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Having social capital and networks helps in accessing beneficial information and resources which contribute indirectly to performance of the business (Salisu et al, 2019). Social orientation facilitates local networks of interconnected stakeholders which promotes collective learning (Hughes & Yang, 2020). Based on gender differences, women generally have less access to important networks which affect their access to inputs, information and reaching out to potential customers compared to men (Adom & Anambane, 2019).…”

Section: Gender and Entrepreneurial Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The plausible reason could be due to the empowerment of women which has awoken their spirit of financial independence and need for success. In addition, women tend to be the higher attendees on most social empowerment programmers where they acquire new knowledge on how to venture into new economic activities unlike men who rarely create time to attend such forums (Hughes & Yang, 2020). This imply that most women can access more informational resources which are likely to influence their risk-taking capability thereby their dairy career resilience.…”

Section: Gendered Impact Of Agripreneurial Orientations On Agripreneumentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Within the context of gender, entrepreneurial learning declares a potential distinction (Ettl and Welter, 2010; Ekanem, 2015; Hughes and Yang, 2020) because of the varying levels of knowledge, experience and observations between men and women entrepreneurs (Fellnhofer et al , 2016). This shows that men and women differ in their outcomes even during normal times of entrepreneurial activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Learning experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst COVID-19

Afshan

Shahid

Tunio³

2021

IJGE

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Purpose COVID-19 pandemic triggered unexpected crises, which were beyond the imaginations of a common man. It changed the order of routine life and the business world. In this challenging condition, the survival of the small business was at high risk. Following experiential learning theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore women's entrepreneurial learning obtained during the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges experienced by them and strategies undertaken to transform businesses. Design/methodology/approach To explore Pakistani women entrepreneurs' lived experiences and learning during the COVID-19, researchers used a qualitative interview design. The interviewees reported their experiences about the effects of COVID-19 on their business and entrepreneurial learning from such a crisis. Findings The findings of the study indicate new fractions of knowledge from the novel learning of the female entrepreneurs throughout the experience of the COVID-19. The transformation from manual business dealings and financial transactions to virtual dealing and the online transaction was the addition of novel learning. Furthermore, the analysis provides insights into the challenges experienced by women entrepreneurs, strategies undertaken and lessons learned from COVID-19. The life lessons learned showed the importance of technical skills and their business operations during the crisis. Research limitations/implications This study is very specific in its context and limitations of this study offers new avenue for research to extend study in different perspectives. First, interviews were conducted from women entrepreneurs running businesses in sub-urban cities of Pakistan, where study can be extended to include both male and female in a comparative study which can expose new dimensions. Second, this study is conducted in the sub-urban areas of the Sindh province of Pakistan, which can be extended to other areas of the country because Pakistan is multicultural and multilingual, which offer different gender specific factors for entrepreneurial activities in general terms but in case of the Covid-19 situation, there exists great variations and social stratifications. Third, this study can be extended to other developing or developed countries or comparative study can provide a new flavor of knowledge. Practical implications The study's finding offers few implications for the entrepreneurs, societies and government at large. Although the pandemic crisis has had devastating effects on health and lifestyle activities, there is always a ray of coming to innovative approaches to fulfill the entrepreneurial desires and serve the community. Thus, entrepreneurs are encouraged to contribute to the economy as a part of society through their sustainable products and services for the greater good. There is also a need for some social policies to find entrepreneurial ways to deal with the COVID-19 crisis that integrates value co-creation for society (Ratten, 2020b). Government and society should also intervene and play their role to encourage women entrepreneurs to feel a sense of empowerment, contribute to family income, alleviate poverty, create jobs and help in economic growth. Originality/value This study's unique contribution and origin are to explore the COVID-19-related entrepreneurial learning experiences of women entrepreneurs in a developing country (Pakistan). Moreover, this study theoretically contributes to the development of experiential learning theory by expanding its insights during COVID-19.

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“…Progress toward gender equality in entrepreneurship and innovation has been slow and uneven (Jennings and Brush, 2013;Elam et al, 2019). But, our scholarly community is well-poised to intervene (Brush et al, 2012;Brush et al, 2018;Leitch et al, 2018) to level the playing field (Foss et al, 2019;Hughes and Yang, 2020), empowering both female and male entrepreneurs to become agents of positive change. Contributing to a better understanding of the conditions and root causes of the gender stereotyping and biases in entrepreneurial (self-)evaluations is the first necessary step for understanding how to jumpstart gender equality in entrepreneurship and innovation.…”

Section: Some Implications For How To Mitigate Gender Biasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender role (in-)congruity and resource-provider gender biases: a conceptual model

Tonoyan

Strohmeyer

2021

IJGE

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PurposeExisting entrepreneurship literature has provided mixed evidence as to whether resource providers discriminate against female-led innovative start-up ventures in their resource commitment decisions either in terms of the likelihood or conditions of resource provision. While some studies revealed evidence indicative of negative discrimination against female entrepreneurs, others have provided evidence suggestive of positive discrimination. In light of these divergent findings, the purpose of this paper is to develop a more nuanced and integrative approach to studying gender biases in entrepreneurial resource provision with greater attention paid to both moderating contingency factors and mediating mechanisms.Design/methodology/approachThe authors develop a conceptual model and empirically testable propositions describing whether, how and when entrepreneurial resource providers are likely to under-, over- and equivalue female-led innovative start-up ventures relative to equivalent male-led start-up ventures. The model applies not only to institutional or private investors as providers of financial capital to start-up ventures as discussed extensively in extant entrepreneurship literature but also to prospective employees as providers of human capital and prospective consumers as providers of money in exchange for an entrepreneurial product or service. The authors discuss the gender-typing of the entrepreneur's core product/service offering as a key contingency factor likely to moderate the proposed relation. The authors further delineate the importance of what they refer to as the “first”- and “second-order” mediating mechanisms underlying the hypothesized relation between resource provider evaluations of the male versus female founder-CEO, the attractiveness of his/her start-up venture and the (conditions of) resource provision to their start-ups.FindingsBuilding on social-psychological theories of descriptive and prescriptive gender stereotypes and extant entrepreneurship literature, the authors establish that gender biases are likely to occur because of resource providers' perceptions of women entrepreneurs at the helm of male-typed start-up ventures to be less competent and agentic, as well as less warm and other-oriented than equivalent male entrepreneurs leading male-typed start-up ventures. The authors discuss the implications of such gender-biased evaluations for the application of stricter performance standards to female-led-male-typed start-up ventures and the likelihood and conditions of resource provision to their companies. The authors further discuss why and when female founder-CEOs of a female-typed (gender-neutral) start-up venture are likely to be overvalued (equivalued) compared to equivalent male founder-CEOs. The authors also develop propositions on additional contingency factors and mediators of the gendered evaluations of founder-CEOs and their start-up ventures, including resource providers' “second-order” gender beliefs, the high-cost versus low-cost resource commitment, individual differences in gender stereotyping and the perceived entrepreneurial commitment of the founder-CEO. The authors conclude by suggesting some practical implications for how to mitigate gender biases and discrimination by prospective resource providers.Originality/valueDiscussing the implications of descriptive and prescriptive gender stereotypes on evaluative decisions of entrepreneurial resources providers, this study advances not only the women's entrepreneurship literature but also the more-established scholarship on the role of gender stereotypes for women's advancement opportunities in the corporate world that has traditionally viewed entrepreneurship as the solution for women fleeing the gender-stereotype-based discrimination in the corporate setting to advance their careers.

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Building gender-aware ecosystems for learning, leadership, and growth

Cited by 17 publications

References 59 publications

Gender effect of entrepreneurial orientation on dairy farming career resilience in Kenya

Gender effect of entrepreneurial orientation on dairy farming career resilience in Kenya

Learning experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst COVID-19

Gender role (in-)congruity and resource-provider gender biases: a conceptual model

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