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“…Gender roles are embedded in specific contexts and may stipulate entrepreneurial behaviour (Welter, Brush, and de Bruin 2014). Thus, a thorough consideration of context allows researchers to grasp the effects of the social, spatial and institutional factors that can either restrain or facilitate entrepreneurship (Fayolle et al 2015, Welter 2011Zahra, Wright, and Abdelgawad 2014). For example, more traditional gender norms from the countries of origin of migrant women have been shown to affect their entrepreneurial behaviour in their destination countries where they must navigate different social settings (Villares-Varela, Ram, and Jones 2017).…”

Section: Contextualizing Transnationalism and Migrationmentioning

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The contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurship: towards a more informed research agenda

Yousafzai

Fayolle

Saeed

et al. 2018

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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The contextual embeddedness of women's entrepreneurship: towards a more informed research agenda 'For the modern man the patriarchal relation of status is by no means the dominant feature of life; but for the women on the other hand, and for the upper-middle class women especially, confined as they are by prescription and by economic circumstances to their "domestic sphere", this relation is the most real and most formative factor of life'.

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Section: Contextualizing Transnationalism and Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurship: towards a more informed research agenda

Yousafzai

Fayolle

Saeed

et al. 2018

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…Entrepreneurial methods can fortify competitive agency to negotiate interests and to overcome perceived impediments to growing business proactively. Organisational entrepreneurship is thus (re)defined as a proactive method of human problem-solving and a practical form of organising human and material arrangements (Hjorth 2012;Sarasvathy and Venkataraman 2011). Reflexive searching, investing into and accomplishing new arrangements can generate the creative power to turn competitive agency and the new diversified linkages it creates into value for the South African players.…”

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“…The process remained strongly tied to the search for a risk-averse corporate growth strategy in the sense of 'calling the resource cycle correctly' to protect company assets and employees' jobs, beyond purely aiming at shareholder value. Evidence from the interviews in Case Two suggests a pragmatic or opportunistic problem-solving strategy (Hjorth 2012;Sarasvathy and Venkataraman 2011). How would the new partners deal with low points in the price cycle?…”

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Surviving in the BRICS: the struggle of South African business in coping with new partners and investors

Wenzel

Freund

Graefe

2018

International Review of Applied Economics

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The purpose of this paper is to improve our understanding of how South African economic actors react to the gradual entry of non-South African BRICS firms in their established business areas. Throughout the twentieth century, South Africa's trade and investment activities were conducted overwhelmingly with Western countries. However, the end of apartheid coincided with significant shifts as new players had a wider and growing presence. South Africa entering the BRICS alliance is symbolic of the change. Ease of entry into the South African economy has increased greatly. South African businesses in key subsectors in the mining and capital equipment industry have had to adapt to new players, and find space in new structures, value chains and initiatives. This paper presents the results of this research activity from the perspective of the South African political economy. Practice-oriented research investigated how six local companies forge new partnerships and how well South African firms adapt and cope with an altered and often unstable environment. It assumed that entrepreneurial activity is not autonomous but takes place within a larger organisational framework. Entrepreneurial activity facilitates the effective exploitation of particular niches and relationships with service providers. KEYWORDS South Africa; BRICS; mining management; entrepreneurship; Chinese business relations; niche management a transmission belt for global forces to the rest of the continent'. This is key to grasping where the South African economy is positioned in the grand discussion over BRICS. After exploring the diverse interests and strategies of players from the individual BRICS nations, Carmody (2013) notes that South African interests in fact bolster Chinese big businesses' activities in Africa with impacts that remain unclear. The purpose of this paper is to improve our understanding of how South African economic actors react to the gradual entry of non-South African BRICS firms in their established business areas. Carmody does not define the particular role of South African companies in the BRICS process (Draper and Qobo 2015). In addition, it is not clear how governments politically engaging in BRICS would promote more value-added exports and attract investment in minerals beneficiation or processing at source as would be desirable (Kaplan 2015). Instead, increased competition from BRICS firms, mainly with those from India and China, has become a practical challenge for many firms, notably in manufacturing (Kaplan 2015; Manufacturing Circle 2017). An understanding of how to engage economically with non-South African BRICS actors is pertinent for policy makers and private firms (Qobo 2010; Draper and Qobo 2015). In her criticism of suspect state-business relations, Catherine Grant Makokera (2015, 127) advances the argument earlier made by Qobo (2010) on the '.. .need for the public and private sectors in South Africa to work together in order to develop further the economic diplomacy of the country. There is a clear potential to mu...

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“…entrepreneurs) are embedded (cf. Welter 2011). These entrepreneurship scholars have primarily taken 'discourse' and 'narratives'structured collections of texts that infuse actions with particular kinds of meanings and constitute particular subject positionsas the unit of analysis in order to understand how entrepreneurial phenomena is influenced by (hegemonic) structural features.…”

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Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies

Thompson¹,

Verduijn²,

Gartner³

2021

Entrepreneurship as Practice

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The contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurship: towards a more informed research agenda

The contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurship: towards a more informed research agenda

Surviving in the BRICS: the struggle of South African business in coping with new partners and investors

Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies

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