Fading and transformation: how a woman entrepreneur's multiple identities interact throughout her life

Cesaroni, Francesca Maria; Sentuti, Annalisa; Pediconi, Maria Gabriella

doi:10.1108/ijebr-04-2020-0239

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“…More recently, Cesaroni et al (2021) examines the interactions among a woman entrepreneur's multiple identities to show how they may evolve during her entrepreneurial experience. They explore two main processes of change: transformation and fading.…”

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Entrepreneurship Post-C19: Gender and Fnancing Abroad

Shah

González

2022

J Stud Res

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Purpose. This study follows the trajectory in the United States and India of 35 entrepreneurs with similar backgrounds in India. It controls for irrelevant-to-this-study factors that impact financing and entrepreneurial paths, and sheds light into the at-times contradictory gender findings in the literature. Design/methodology/approach. The study is based on interviews with upper-middle class entrepreneurs from business-oriented Mumbai-Maharashtra, India. Out of the 35 highly educated entrepreneurs, one third are women, 21 have educational experience in the U.S. and 16 live in the U.S. This controlled setting is particularly fitting to examine gender effects and offer suggestions for the digitally led C-19 recovery. Indian immigrants have founded about a third of U.S. startups, besides more engineering and technology firms than immigrants born in the next nine immigrant-founder countries combined. Findings. Both in India and U.S., and despite similar backgrounds, education, no dependents, and similar or more advantageous immigration status in U.S., women entrepreneurs start their businesses later, lack collateral and equity partners, and borrow less. Practical implications. The findings highlight the potential for debt and equity crowdfunding as well as other fintech services to enhance opportunities for women entrepreneurs. Originality. This is the first study of gender and financing entrepreneurship in an intercontinental controlled environment. The setting enables an enhanced focus on gender and financing, a priority for academics, practitioners, and policy makers.

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Entrepreneurship Post-C19: Gender and Fnancing Abroad

Shah

González

2022

J Stud Res

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“…Overall, her venture is flexible enough so she can work from home to raise her granddaughter. Like her, most female participants value compatibility between their venture and household chores, as seen with female entrepreneurs from different backgrounds and fields (Cesaroni, Sentuti, and Pediconi 2021). Such is also the case of Juanita, a producer of organic products, who leans on kinship ties for venturing.…”

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Contextualizing indigenous venturing: emerging insights for context-based indigenous entrepreneurship research

Barros Celume

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We have a limited understanding of entrepreneurship beyond Western developed contexts. Commonly, mainstream entrepreneurship research relies on assumptions which do not always hold across different segments of the population, such as Indigenous peoples , a still marginalized and under researched segment of society . D espite its relevance for emancipation , economic independence, and sustainable development among Indigenous communities worldwide, Indigenous entrepreneurship remains largely understudied in our field . Therefore , in this doctoral thesis composed of two research articles, I examine some underexplored aspects of Indigenous venturing, focusing on the cultural backgrounds and contextual specificities in which Indigenous entrepreneurship takes place . In doing so, I seek to stress the need for more inclusive research, urging a reconsideration of some of our common knowledge and taken for granted entrepreneurial perspectives. In the first article of this dissertation , I explore the interface between Indigenous entrepreneurship and place, considering both the 'material' and 'socially constructed' dimensions of place. Specifically, I examine Latin American Indigenous individuals from different ethnicities, engaging in venturing across urban, remote, and rural locations. My findings put into perspective the key influence of place in Indigenous venturing , ranging from deeply embedded and relational ventures in remote settings to Western influenced business approaches within urban areas . Overall, I contribute with an empirical typology that provides a more detailed understanding of the context laden and highly idiosyncratic nature of Indigenous entrepreneurship , focusing on the emergence, orientation, main outcomes, and constraints among Indigenous ventures from different places and groups of people Building on embeddedness theory, in the second chapter of this dissertation I seek to gain new insights into the embedding process among Indigenous entrepreneurs migrating from their native settlements into urban environments . M y findings reveal that migrant Indigenous entrepreneurs engage in distinct ive prosocial and sustainable ventures, bringing their context laden traditions, beliefs, and values to the urban realm through their businesses . Based on this evidence , I showcas e the pivotal role that their home contexts play in the ir agentic embedding wi thin host contexts . I also contribut e to a multi contextual understanding of embeddedness, considering both distal and proximal contexts at a time.

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