Women's Entrepreneurship in the Asian Region

Building Sustainable and Responsible Businesses
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-42752-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship

This book explores women’s entrepreneurship in Asia and analyses the experiences of women entrepreneurs through institutional logics. Covering nine different countries throughout Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Brunei, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, this book highlights a range of success stories, the supports, challenges, policy and practical implications to improve women’s particiaption in entrepreneurship.

Women in some of the Asian countries are subjected to cultural norms and beliefs systems which regard women as inferior. This book suggests actions by governments, universities, organizations and women themselves to help improve the position of women as entrepreneurs in Asia and explains how these actions are in line with UN’s Sustainability Development Goal (SDG) of gender equality. The book also considers how women may contribute to developing businesses that focus on addressing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability.

This book is an essential resource for women entrepreneurs, academics researching these areas, and student’s studying women’s entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship more generally. Women who are keen to start their own businesses and policy makers seeking to support the establishment of women led business in the Asian region will also find this useful.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zutshi, Ambika

Menzies, Jane

North-Samardzic, Andrea

Chavan, Meena

Lubna Alam, Sultana

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Setting the Scene for Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Asian Region

Jane Menzies, Meena Chavan, Prince Mensah and Ambika Zutshi.

2. Women’s Entrepreneurship in India: Facing Current Challenges and Looking Ahead
Venkatesha Murthy and Anish Purkayastha.

3. Women Entrepreneurs in India: A Systematic Review of Prior Research and an Agenda for Future Research
Andrea North-Samardzic, Alexander Newman, Madhura Bedarkar and Rakesh Pati.

4. Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan: Challenges, Opportunities, and Success Stories
Nayab Iqbal, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Azianura Hani Shaari and Kaukab Abid Azhar.

5. Going upstream: A gender-aware entrepreneurial process framework for an emerging economy Saudi Arabia
Maram Saeed Sabri and Keith Thomas.

6. Women’s Microentrepreneurial self-efficacy and life satisfaction in Malaysia: The mediating role of individual autonomy
Sharon G. M. Koh, and Grace H. Y. Lee

7. Digitalization and Changing Landscape of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh
Mosarrat Farhana, Afshana Saleh and Shaila Sarmin,

8. Resilience of vulnerable women entrepreneurs in climate fragile Bangladesh
Rozina Akther, Nadeera Ranabahu, Mesbahuddin Chowdhury, and Huibert P. de Vries.

9. Navigating Post-COVID Sales Recovery: Growth Mindset & Informal Financing Among Indonesian Women Microentrepreneurs
Berto Mulia Wibawa, Grace HY Lee, Imam Baihaqi, and Juliana French.

10. The Microfoundations of Ambidexterity: Behaviours and Competencies of Modest Fashion Entrepreneurs in Turkey
Alessandra Vecchi, and Dilek Zamantili Nayir.

11. Female micro-entrepreneurs in the hospitality sector: A qualitative exploratory study in Nepal
Faisal Shahzad, Lana Beikverdi, Dinesh Poudel and Ahmad Arslan

12. A Review of the Landscape of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Brunei Darussalam
Khairul Hidayatullah Basir

13. Women’s Entrepreneurship in Asia: Supports, Challenges and a future way forward
Jane Menzies, Meena Chavan, and Prince Mensah

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Menzies is a Senior Lecturer of International Business, at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She is interested in gender and women’s entrepreneurship and has published in high-quality outlets including Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, International Journal of Consumer Studies, European Management Journal, Management International Review, and Human Resource Management Review.

Meena Chavan is an Associate Professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship at the Macquarie Business School. She conducts research on international business, government-MNE strategy, and entrepreneurship. Her research has been published in top-tier journals including Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Research, Business Strategy and the Environment and International Business Review.

Ambika Zutshi is Professor and Dean of the Peter Faber Business School at the Australian Catholic University. Ambika has over 100 publications in high quality outlets and her research has achieved significant impact nationally and internationally, with many funded research projects.

Andrea North-Samardzic is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Business School and the Associate Dean Executive Degree Programs. Andrea’s research and teaching spans leadership, entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, technology and ethics, focusing on industry-engaged research that leads to impact. She has received research funding from both government, and non-government organisations.

Sultana Lubna Alam is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Discipline of Business and Business Analytics at Deakin University. She is an inter-disciplinary researcher with expertise in socio-technical studies and the empowering impacts of emerging and digital technologies on individuals, digital literacy, women leadership, women in technology and digital transformation.