Moving Contexts Onto New Roads: Clues From Other Disciplines

Welter, Friederike; Baker, Ted

doi:10.1177/1042258720930996

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“…Whilst the importance of context in women's entrepreneurship has already been recognized (Welter & Baker, 2020), this paper addresses women entrepreneurs' diversified experiences concerning their family in non‐Western developing countries in a precise and organized way. Whereas the issue of domestic responsibilities and childcare is a recurring topic regarding the family issues of women entrepreneurs in developed countries (Ahl, 2006), this paper examines the effect of it and its different dimensions on sole proprietor women's businesses in developing countries.…”

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Women's entrepreneurship in developing countries from a family perspective: Past and future

Jaim

2021

Glob Bus Org Exc

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Studies of the distinct experience of women entrepreneurs in non‐Western settings are rare. Extant studies of women's entrepreneurship focus, almost exclusively, on developed Western economies and tend to underplay the role of the family, which has become unnaturally separated from entrepreneurship research. Based on a structured literature review, this article advances the understanding of how family related issues shape women's gendered experience as entrepreneurs in developing countries. It addresses the diversity of experiences of women entrepreneurs, and discusses both the positive and negative aspects of familial issues, as well as some broader contextual features related to the family. It offers an agenda for future research on this topic, and provides a useful guide for policy makers and practitioners intending to facilitate women's entrepreneurship in developing countries.

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Women's entrepreneurship in developing countries from a family perspective: Past and future

Jaim

2021

Glob Bus Org Exc

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“…Ample empirical research exists linking cultural context and entrepreneurship (e.g. Welter et al , 2019; Welter and Baker, 2020; Wennberg et al , 2013) using Hofstede's cultural dimension framework (Fleck et al , 2020; Oo et al , 2018; Shirokova et al , 2018). The dimensions of this framework are outlined in Table 1.…”

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Teaching entrepreneurship in China: culture matters

Lyu

Shepherd

Lee

2021

IJEBR

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PurposeThe primary purpose of this research is to explore how the cultural context, in this case, China, influences the teaching of entrepreneurship that seeks to cultivate student entrepreneurs during their university experience.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative case study approach is adopted to explore how the cultural environment affects the delivery and application of entrepreneurship education to university students in a Chinese context. Seventeen student entrepreneurs and three lecturing staff members in three Chinese universities were interviewed using a semi-structured interview approach.FindingsThe findings suggest that while Chinese universities have been importing teaching models and methods of entrepreneurship education from the United States and other countries, both students and educators are starting to recognise the need for teaching methods to be contextualised and designed based on national conditions and cultural characteristics. Findings from this study highlight cultural fusion and collision in the process of importing and implementing entrepreneurial teaching methods. For example, teaching students how to write a business plan appears to offer limited value for students' start-up activities and their venture development. The didactic teaching method centred on teachers without entrepreneurial experience works for the teaching “about” entrepreneurship but is paradoxical to the goal of teaching “for” entrepreneurship.Originality/valueLittle theoretical or empirical attention has been paid to the complexity of the cultural environment of teaching approaches to entrepreneurship education. This paper provides novel empirical insight into why the cultural environment plays a critical role in teaching approaches to entrepreneurship education and how these teaching approaches can be culturally nuanced to better meet the needs of nascent student entrepreneurs in various cultural contexts.

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“…As pointed out in several contributions in entrepreneurship, there has been a long-standing tendency to disregard or underplay the importance of contexts, including spatial context (Trettin and Welter, 2011; Welter and Baker, 2020). This critique is less about a disregard for, or lack of focus on spatial issues but more about how the issue has been studied.…”

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COVID-19 and the importance of space in entrepreneurship research and policy

Korsgaard

Hunt²,

Townsend

et al. 2020

International Small Business Journal

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Given the COVID-19 crisis, the importance of space in the global economic system has emerged as critical in a hitherto unprecedented way. Even as large-scale, globally operating digital platform enterprises find new ways to thrive in the midst of a crisis, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) nestled in local economies have proven to be fragile to shocks, causing countless local economies to unravel in the face of severe challenges to survival. Here, we discuss the role of entrepreneurship in re-building local economies that are more resilient. Specifically, we take a spatial perspective and highlight how the COVID-19 crisis has uncovered problems in the current tendency for thin contextualisation and promotion of globalisation. Based on this critique, we outline new perspectives for thinking about the relationship between entrepreneurship, resilience and local economies. Here, a particular emphasis is given to resilience building through deeply contextualised policies and research, localised flows of products and labour, and the diversification of local economies.

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Moving Contexts Onto New Roads: Clues From Other Disciplines

Cited by 113 publications

References 74 publications

Women's entrepreneurship in developing countries from a family perspective: Past and future

Women's entrepreneurship in developing countries from a family perspective: Past and future

Teaching entrepreneurship in China: culture matters

COVID-19 and the importance of space in entrepreneurship research and policy

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