Nature-based businesses - such as those involving the land, forest, garden, or rural environment - are industries with significant growth potential. Female entrepreneurs within nature-based ...businesses are often invisible in statistics, as well as in research, since traditionally men have owned such companies. This had led to a lack of knowledge about the opportunities for women to start and run nature-based businesses. The aim of this paper was to explore the ambition, working conditions, and life situation for female entrepreneurs within nature-based businesses in sparsely populated areas of Sweden. Interviews were carried out with 18 female entrepreneurs within nature-based businesses in Sweden. One conclusion that was drawn from this study is that women within this industry are mainly pulled into entrepreneurship, that is, the entrepreneurship is opportunity based. Four different types of entrepreneurs were identified based on their ambitions when it comes to time spent in business and the degree of innovation. This study shows that it is often difficult to achieve profitability in a company, and the female entrepreneurs highlight that that self-employment implies hard but rewarding work. The findings of this study can be used by public actors in the design of support systems for female entrepreneurs in nature-based businesses.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the experience, attributes, and behavior of single mothers and the ways in which these inform their entrepreneurial actions. With this aim, and in absence ...of research on this population, a wide-ranging review of the literature on both single parents and female entrepreneurs was employed. Single mothers represent a growing population of entrepreneurs. Single mothers are also an historically underrepresented, oppressed, and stigmatized demographic viewed by society as a problem to be solved. In response, this research focused on their strengths. Narrative inquiry guided interviews with 43 participants who were single parents at the time they began entrepreneurship. Data were analyzed iteratively using constructivist grounded theory and revealed a process model for how single mothers translate abilities honed through their experience single parenting to their business ventures. Further, these created the conditions for participants to enter a state of thriving.
This article considers the nature of the portrayal of female entrepreneurs in public narratives of entrepreneurship and whether there exists a reductionist approach to such discourses. If there are ...basic plots driving such narratives, how authentic are they and what characteristics do they embody? Consideration is also given to whether individualism is amplified at the expense of the silencing of collectivism and the implications of such a trend. Two original and theoretically driven typologies are put forward that attempt to capture primary narrative characterisations of 'the female entrepreneur'.
The Female Entrepreneur Pines, Ayala Malach
Clinical case studies,
04/2002, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
A burned-out female entrepreneur was treated using a psychodynamic existential approach. Psychodynamic theory contributed to this treatment approach idea that people choose an occupation that enables ...them to reenact significant childhood experiences. Existential theory contributed the idea that people attempt to find existential significance through their work. Burnout is assumed to result from a failure in the existential quest. This case demonstrates that when treating burnout, it is essential to address (a) Why, psychodynamically, did the individual choose the particular career and howwas it expected to provide existential significance? (b) Why does the individual feel a sense of failure in the existential quest, and how is this related to burnout? (c) What changes need to happen for the individual to have a sense of existential significance? In addition to demonstrating a treatment approach for burnout, the case contributes to the understanding of gender differences in burnout and the family dynamics of entrepreneurs.
Men and women both play significant, though different, economic roles in Uganda (both contribute around 50% of GDP and women are 39% of business owners). Gender inequality in access to and control of ...productive assets and resources acts as a brake to womens economic participation and limits economic growth. Labor and time constraints differentially affect womens and mens capacity to engage in business activity, with significant consequences for agricultural productivity in the context of strategic exports. It is therefore important for Uganda to unleash the full productive potential of female as well as male economic actors, if it is to achieve high and sustained rates of pro-poor growth. This book considers the relationship between gender and economic growth in Uganda in the specific context of promoting womens business and entrepreneurship. Building on the findings of the FIAS Uganda Administrative Barriers to Investment Report, 2003, Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda identifies specific legal and administrative barriers to investment that have a gender dimension.
Conclusion Klinger, Bailey; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; del Carpio, Carlos
Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction,
04/2013
Book Chapter
While these current and potential entrepreneurs face numerous hurdles, the evidence clearly shows that the difficulties of financial intermediation for small and medium-sized enterprises are both ...significant and costly. Overcoming this barrier represents both a major profit opportunity for lenders and a major development opportunity for society at large, including of course entrepreneurs themselves. New tools that allow for screening and risk evaluation for small and medium-sized enterprises with low transaction costs and without depending on pre-existing information like borrowing history or business plans could represent a breakthrough in solving this problem. We have proposed one such tool, the use of psychometric tests, and evaluated its potential both conceptually, based on past studies, and based on a newly collected international dataset. The results show that there are some psychometric dimensions that have statistically and economically significant relationships with business profitability, which is of significant interest to investors, entrepreneurs, and capacity builders, and also that have significant relationships with default risk, which is of significant interest to lenders. Some of them are found to hold with surprising stability across a wide variety of countries, cultures, and business types. These questions could provide the boost to predictive power needed to bring millions of striving small business owners into the formal financial system and give them the capital they need to grow their businesses, if they can be successfully leveraged for credit screening. The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (or EFL for short) is a company set up to work with banks to deploy this technology and realize this potential. Since 2010, the company has been implementing a credit-screening tool including psychometric content similar to that reviewed above, and modeled using the Bayesian hierarchical methodology.
This report is a synthesis of fieldwork findings and recommendations developed since October 2012 under this Technical Assistance (TA) carried out by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program ...(WSP). The recommendations have been developed through on-going consultations and meetings with the Directorate of Environmental Sanitation and Directorate General of Human Settlements, Ministry of Health, and Government of Indonesia. This report describes and assesses the performance of technical assistance TA-P143167, ‘rural sanitation market expansion of domestic private sector in Indonesia,’ provided by the World Bank through the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) carried out from October 2, 2012 to March 31, 2015 to support the development of a rural sanitation market in Indonesia. This technical assistance (TA) was implemented as parts of a larger effort to assist the Government of Indonesia achieve at-scale results in rural sanitation through its National Strategy for Community-Based Total Sanitation (Sanitasi Total Berbasis Masyarakat - STBM).
In the literature on self-employment in general and female entrepreneurship in particular, what has rarely been considered is whether women entrepreneurs, like some of their male counterparts, can ...also treat their family and their ethnicity as a resource for pursuing economic advantages for themselves and their family and the extent to which gender relations and more specifically women’s relations with men and children can also act as a hindrance. The focus of this chapter is therefore to address these issues through discussion and illustration from biographical interviews with male and female entrepreneurs in the UK (London). One aim being to think through the multi-layered relations at work and attend to the intersections of gender, ethnicity and class.
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