Contributing factors of women entrepreneurs' business growth and failure in Pakistan

Noor, Shaista; Isa, Filzah

doi:10.1504/ijbg.2020.109115

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“…The widespread discrimination and vulnerability are broadly viewed in most developed and developing countries [55][56][57]. Besides that, women still strive hard to make a space in corporate and economical business and work with equal zeal as their male counterparts [58][59][60][61]. Women are mostly viewed in the second stream of literature as more environmentally friendly and sensitive about the environment than the male counterpart.…”

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards the United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG-5) that emphasized the need to empower women in every walk of life. The study examines women’s autonomy in the sustainable development agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 to 2019. The study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector autoregressive (VAR) Granger causality, and innovation accounting matrix to estimate parameters. The existing data are summarized and collated in the context of China to explain as a correlational study. The results show that women’s autonomy moderated with technology spills over to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and substantiate the hump-shaped relationship between them. The increased spending on research and development (R&D) activities, patent publications, and renewable energy consumption empowers women to be equipped with the latest sustainable technologies to improve environmental quality. The pollution haven hypothesis verifies a given country, where trade liberalization policies tend to increase polluting industries to set up their plants that engaged in dirty production that exacerbate GHG emissions. The causality estimates confirmed that technological innovations and renewable energy consumption leads to women’s autonomy. In contrast, females’ share in the labor force participation rate leads to an increase in renewable energy consumption. Thus, it is evident that there is a positive role of women in the country’s sustainable development.

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…Apart from facing issues and challenging situations in running their business entities, women are playing a remarkable role in changing the face of the modern business world by standing forefront in various business ventures including ageing care centres. Previous studies depict various factors such as socio-cultural, economic, personal and environmental factor that handicap the women progress in various entrepreneurial businesses (Brush, 2018;Keyes, 2017;Noor & Isa, 2020a). The present study results highlight that women are confronting various managerial obstacles, and the main obstacles are lack of qualified staff, weak administration and poor marketing tactics, and fewer finances and lack of technology.…”

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Managerial Obstacles Facing the Ageing Care Centres: A Case of Malaysian Women Entrepreneurs

Noor

Isa

Muhammad

2021

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Malaysia is experiencing the rise in the ageing population as it is a more significant challenge for developing and developed countries. Therefore, across the globe, it is imperative for countries to anticipate effectively against the rising issue of the ageing population. In Malaysia, ageing care centres are mostly managed by three sectors: public, private and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Currently, 365 ageing care centres are working in various states of Malaysia. The men and women entrepreneurs run these centres individually or in partnership. This study highlights the managerial challenges confronted by women entrepreneurs of ageing care centres in Malaysia. The study adopts the qualitative research strategy, and structured questionnaires have been used to collect data by face-to-face interviews. The target population of the study is five women entrepreneurs of ageing care centres in the leading states (Johor, Penang and Selangor) in Malaysia. The result highlights that staff retention, lack of qualified staff, technology gap, staff training, less capital; strapped budget and poor marketing strategy are main managerial challenges faced by women entrepreneurs of ageing care centres in Malaysia. This study will help policymakers to formulate strategies for women entrepreneurship in Malaysia. A recommendation plan is being proposed.

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“…The procedure is known as a quantitative strategy that pursues consistencies in the human beings' social lives and systematically represents statistical facts (Payne and Payne, 2004). Moreover, in the field of entrepreneurship, various scholars, such as Singh (2000), Taormina and Lao (2007), Sandhu et al (2011), Noor and Isa (2020) and Zhu et al (2022), have applied this strategy to collect the quantitative facts from the respondents.…”

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“…Second, there is no agreement in the current literature about the effect that these barriers have on ES (Jodyanne, 2009;Chatterjee et al, 2019;Dzogbenuku and Keelson, 2019;Linfang et al, 2021). Finally, in the context of Pakistan, studies have not taken account of the country's female university students (Shah and Soomro, 2017;Zeb, 2018;Nasir et al, 2019;Noor and Isa, 2020). In the circumstances, the researchers developed the following research question:…”

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Entrepreneurship barriers faced by Pakistani female students in relation to their entrepreneurial inclinations and entrepreneurial success

Soomro

Abdelwahed²,

Shah³

2022

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Purpose The current environment is unhelpful to female entrepreneurs, and they need to overcome numerous barriers when starting their own businesses. In this study, the researchers investigated the significant barriers that Pakistani female entrepreneurs require to overcome in this respect. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the researchers used a quantitative study and they used a questionnaire to survey the respondents and collect cross-sectional data. The researchers targeted female students who were undertaking bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in different Pakistani public and private sector universities. Accordingly, the researchers based this study’s findings on the usable samples received from 498 Pakistani female students. Findings The researchers used a structural equation model (SEM) in this study and its findings highlight that aversion to risk (ATR) has an insignificant impact on entrepreneurial inclinations (EI). In addition, fear of failure (FoF), lack of resources (LoR), aversion to hard work and stress (ASH) and the lack of social networking (LSN) have negative and insignificant effects on EI. The ATR factor has an insignificant effect on entrepreneurial success (ES), whereas FoF, LoR, ASH and LSN are negative and insignificant predictors of Pakistani female students’ ES. Practical implications This study’s findings may help Pakistani women to overcome the barriers to ES. In this respect, the researchers recommend that the Pakistan Government and policymakers develop significant strategies to provide the conducive business environment and to financially support Pakistani women to start their own businesses. Furthermore, this study’s findings contribute greatly to the vast amount of current literature and help to overcome the entrepreneurial conditions and barriers that potential entrepreneurs from advanced and developing countries experience frequently. Originality/value This study’s findings provide empirical evidence of EI and ES in Pakistan.

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Contributing factors of women entrepreneurs' business growth and failure in Pakistan

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Managerial Obstacles Facing the Ageing Care Centres: A Case of Malaysian Women Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship barriers faced by Pakistani female students in relation to their entrepreneurial inclinations and entrepreneurial success

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