Neo-liberalism translated into preconditions for women entrepreneurs – two contrasting cases

Tillmar, Malin; Ahl, Helene; Berglund, Karin; Pettersson, Katarina

doi:10.1108/jec-12-2020-0207

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“…Experiences from one context do not always translate well into another context (Xheneti, 2017). For example, Tillmar et al (2021aTillmar et al ( , 2021b showed that neoliberal entrepreneurship policy benefitted women in deeply patriarchal states such as Tanzania by providing women with an income of one's own and escape from dependence on a man, but in the well-developed Swedish welfare state, neoliberal entrepreneurship policy took a different routeit replaced public with private provision of welfare services, which paid women less than when publicly owned. Same economic ideology, but different outcomes.…”

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Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy

Ahl,

Berglund,

Pettersson

et al. 2023

IJEBR

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PurposePolicy for women's entrepreneurship is designed to promote economic growth, not least in depleted rural areas, but very little is known about the contributions of rural women entrepreneurs, their needs or how the existing policy is received by them. Using a theoretical framework developed by Korsgaard et al. (2015), the authors analyse how rural women entrepreneurs contribute to rural development and discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy. This paper aims to focus on the aforementioned objectives.Design/methodology/approachThe authors interviewed 32 women entrepreneurs in rural Sweden representing the variety of businesses in which rural Swedish women are engaged. The authors analysed their contributions to rural development by analysing their motives, strategies and outcomes using Korsgaard et al.’s framework of “entrepreneurship in the rural” and “rural entrepreneurship” as a heuristic, interpretative device.FindingsIrrespective of industry, the respondents were deeply embedded in family and local social structures. Their contributions were substantial, multidimensional and indispensable for rural viability, but the policy tended to bypass most women-owned businesses. Support in terms of business training, counselling and financing are important, but programmes especially for women tend to miss the mark, and so does rural development policy. More important for rural women entrepreneurs in Sweden is the provision of good public services, including for example, schools and social care, that make rural life possible.Research limitations/implicationsTheoretically, the findings question the individualist and a-contextual focus of much entrepreneurship research, as well as the taken-for-granted work–family divide. How gender and how the public and the private are configured varies greatly between contexts and needs contextual assessment. Moreover, the results call for theorising place as an entrepreneurial actor.Practical implicationsBased on the findings, the authors advise future policymakers to gender mainstream entrepreneurship policy and to integrate entrepreneurship and rural development policy with family and welfare state policy.Originality/valueThe paper highlights how rural women respond to policy, and the results are contextualised, making it possible to compare them to other contexts. The authors widen the discussion on contributions beyond economic growth, and the authors show that policy for public and commercial services and infrastructure is indeed also policy for entrepreneurship.

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Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy

Ahl,

Berglund,

Pettersson

et al. 2023

IJEBR

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“…On the opposite end of the scale is a choice of new venues for professional advancement and business entrepreneurship opened by labour market liberalisation (Palalić et al, 2020; Ramadani et al, 2015; Tillmar et al, 2021). For example, gender differences in employment in Lithuania are also affected by the so-called revaluation of resources strategy that is available mostly to women but only to some degree to men (Fodor 1997; Ghodsee, 2005).…”

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Labour market flexibilisation in Lithuania: Outcomes and impacts on gender differences in work arrangements

Juška

Navicke

2022

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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This paper evaluates the impacts of 2017’s labour law liberalisation on labour market flexibility in Lithuania. While employment did grow rapidly in 2017–2019, there was little change in labour market flexibility. Against expectations, part-time employment declined as labour relations continued to be administered under path-dependent institutional inertia inherited from previous decades. The prevalence of full-time, dual-earner employment was shaped by the country’s socialist legacy and was reflected in high employment rates and permanent open-ended contracts for both men and women. Analysis also showed that the revised labour law lowered the probability for women with family care responsibilities to be hired. Once hired, they were offered permanent employment albeit with the reduced protections that such contracts now provide. Impacts of the new labour law on shaping what is considered to be ‘men’s work’ and ‘women’s work’ in Lithuania are discussed. JEL Codes: J00

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“Oh no! all my money is gone”: the detrimental consequences of participating in stokvels among women entrepreneurs within the South African township economy

Maziriri,

Nyagadza,

Maramura

2024

JEC

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the detrimental consequences of participating in stokvels among women entrepreneurs within the South African township economy. Design/methodology/approach The research used the Gioia methodology, involving the implementation of a qualitative inquiry with an inductive approach. Semi-structured interviews served as the primary method for data collection. The study had a sample comprising 20 women entrepreneurs located in Johannesburg, South Africa. Findings Narratives on the detrimental consequences of participating in stokvels among women entrepreneurs within the South African township economy included fraudsters, misunderstanding and dishonesty among stokvel partners, year-end robbery and theft, stokvels being dominated by men, operating outside of formal regulatory frameworks, exclusion and limited funding. Research limitations/implications Sample size challenges feature as a notable limitation, including the research being conducted in only one province of South Africa. Caution should be exercised when seeking to generalize the findings in other contexts. Originality/value While there is an array of literature on the impact of stokvels on entrepreneurship, there are deficiencies in studies that have looked at the detrimental consequences of stokvels on women entrepreneurs. As a result, the goal of this research is to add to the present corpus of African entrepreneurship literature, specifically in the context of South Africa.

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Neo-liberalism translated into preconditions for women entrepreneurs – two contrasting cases

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References 105 publications

Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy

Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy

Labour market flexibilisation in Lithuania: Outcomes and impacts on gender differences in work arrangements

“Oh no! all my money is gone”: the detrimental consequences of participating in stokvels among women entrepreneurs within the South African township economy

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