Promote Women Entrepreneurship Research Articles

The Role of Networkability and Personal Inclination of Women Entrepreneurship Towards Additive Manufacturing Start-Ups for Mining Industry in Bengaluru City: An Empirical Approach

Women entrepreneurship is closely interwoven with economic and social benefits. Though India constitutes nearly half of the women population, there is a limited participation of women in entrepreneurship, especially in the field of manufacturing start-ups. Women are recognized as successful entrepreneurs through their strong desire, qualities and capabilities for robust economic development. Due to such an important contribution of women in economic development, we propose to investigate the factors that play a major role in women entrepreneur’s success in the field of additive manufacturing startups in Bengaluru city (hub of start-ups). Purpose: The research study aims at deciphering the various dynamics that inclines women entrepreneurship in mining ecosystem by focusing on the networkability of women on various avenues. Design/ Methodology/Approach: The study conducts a survey by administering a structured questionnaire to 273 registered additive manufacturing start-ups run by women in Bengaluru city. Convenience sampling method is adopted followed by Correlation analysis. A SEM model is developed using JMP software for exhaustive analysis. The results will focus on the impact of inclination of women entrepreneurship on the development of start-ups with the identified variables such as driving forces, creativity and enterprising ability with the aid of networkability. Expected Outcome: The research aims at exhibiting the level of networkability amongst the women entrepreneurs in additive manufacturing start-ups Bengaluru and its pivotal role on the business development. The extent of entrepreneurial inclination on start-ups by women can be gauged through this study. Study Implications: The study results can help Trade associations, Women councils, Women associations, policy makers and facilitators linked to innovation which can thereby contribute in developing effective policies and supportive measures to promote women entrepreneurship.

The Role of NGOS in Promoting Women Entrepreneurship in India

In recent times, the government has realized the importance of entrepreneurship as a prominent alternative to traditional wage employment in the new economy, and its role in increasing the pace of economic growth. Therefore, Indian government has come up with various special policy measures to help women entrepreneurs. there are major limitations among women entrepreneurs in accessing those facilities. These limitations arise due to various factors, such as: lack of awareness, lack of information, difficulty in accessibility of finance, lack of easy access of entrepreneurial training and post training support, lack of market and network support, lack of self-confidence and managerial skills, bureaucratic hassles, lack of transportation mainly in remote areas, restriction of government officials in terms of timing when women also have to perform household activities etc.

Crowd-funding to promote women entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review of the empirical studies conducted in the last decade (2012–2023)

PurposeIt aims to understand crowdfunding’s effect on women’s entrepreneurship and summarize key findings, methods, and challenges women face in using crowdfunding for financing.Design/methodology/approachThis literature review examines 36 empirical studies on crowdfunding use by women entrepreneurs. It follows the PRISMA framework, using Scopus and citation tracking to categorize studies on crowdfunding’s potential to empower women financially and address their barriers to accessing finance.FindingsThe review identified seven key themes: opportunities and challenges for women in crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding’s potential, gender differences in crowdfunding outcomes, the role of social capital and networks, investor trust and decision-making, the influence of language, communication, and platform design, and the importance of considering intersectionality and context. Crowdfunding offers women entrepreneurs access to capital and helps them overcome traditional financing barriers. Women-led campaigns achieve comparable or even higher success rates compared to their male counterparts. However, under-representation, lower funding requests, pitching difficulties, and limited access to networks remain as challenges.Research limitations/implicationsThis study has limitations inherent to systematic reviews, including potential methodological flaws or biases in the included studies and the exclusion of relevant studies due to time and resource constraints.Practical implicationsCrowdfunding can be promoted as a viable financing option for women entrepreneurs and design targeted initiatives to support them. Building social capital, enhancing financial literacy, and creating networking opportunities can contribute to their success in navigating crowdfunding platforms effectively.Originality/valueThis review offers a comprehensive analysis of empirical studies conducted between 2012 and 2023. It provides up-to-date insights, identifies key themes, and offers actionable recommendations for policymakers and organizations seeking to support women entrepreneurs in effectively accessing and utilizing crowdfunding platforms.

Government support in promoting women entrepreneurship in Arunachal Pradesh: An overview

Government support in promoting women entrepreneurship in Arunachal Pradesh: An overview

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GREEN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION: A SYSTEMATIC STUDY IN RAIPUR DIVISION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

This research study focuses on women entrepreneurship and green technological innovations in Raipur division, especially in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of the study is to understand how women are developing their businesses using green technologies such as organic farming, solar energy, and waste management and bringing about positive change in society. Based on primary data from 50 women entrepreneurs, this research identifies their current status, key challenges such as lack of resources, access to technology, and social barriers. It also explores opportunities such as government schemes and community support that can help women adopt green technologies. In conclusion, this study shows that women entrepreneurs have a significant contribution towards sustainable development and encouraging their innovations can have a wide positive impact on society. Policy decision makers need to take concrete steps to promote women entrepreneurship and support green technological innovations.

Promoting Women Entrepreneurship

Women entrepreneurship is widely accepted as an important source of profitable growth. Women entrepreneurs produce new jobs for themselves and others and also give the society with different results to operation, association and business- related problems. still, women entrepreneurs still represent a major part of all entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs frequently face gender-based walls to starting and growing their businesses. Women entrepreneurship can make a particularly strong contribution to the profitable well- being of the family and the community, poverty reduction and women’s commission. therefore, governments across the world as well as colourful experimental associations are laboriously bearing creation of women entrepreneurs through colorful schemes, impulses and promotional measures. In India, the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises development associations, colorful State Small diligence Development pots, the Nationalized banks and indeed Non-Government Associations are conducting colorful programmes including Entrepreneurship Development Programmes to feed to the requirements of implicit women entrepreneurs, who may not have acceptable educational background and abilities.

WEP (Women Entrepreneurship Platform): Top Business Ideas for Women Entrepreneurship in India

Abstract: In India, there are large demographics of the women which are estimated about 48.5% of 121.06 Cr populations (as per census 2011). But 13.76% approximately (as per sixth economic census 2013-14) owned businesses which is very less in all. Apart from this a majority of women entrepreneurs have small businesses. On the other hand, other countries like China, U.S, Japan, UK, Russia etc have much more entrepreneurship than India. Indian economy is a growing economy which has always focused on ‘Women Empowerment’ requires to be more focused on “Women Entrepreneurship Platform” as this is a great way to empower as well as economically sound them in the field of business. The main objective of the paper is to promote women entrepreneurship with new ideas. The other aims are to study the availability of financial aid to women of India, to find out regarding bottlenecks faced by the women entrepreneurs, to increase the number of women entrepreneur in India, to build an ecosystem for women entrepreneurs with available government & other innovative initiatives, sustainable and long- term strategies for their businesses. The research paper will be based on available data and information provided by the women entrepreneurs and their suggestions, government and repute publications, other researches etc. There are so many concepts to start new ventures or to engage and elaborate with the existed running ones. So, this time is to liberate the powerful Indian women with new and exciting, creative and unique business ideas to become great womenentrepreneur in the country to place themselves as superhero in the world.

A Study on Challenges and Problems of Women Entrepreneurs in Madurai District

Women- possessed entrepreneurship should be encouraged in any society that aspires to reach a high position of overall development so that women can take advantage of the openings it presents for particular development and profitable growth. The donation of women to business development can be backbone of profitable acceleration. Women’s business power is extensively recognised as a critical element of a heathy frugality because it plays a significant part in the product of new jobs and services and contributes to overall profitable development. Dur to numerous challenges and problems that are present in the business world. The metamorphosis of socio- profitable fabric of Indian society in recent times has bought clear recognition of women in public docket and in achievement of development objects including sweats to promote women entrepreneurship. The presence of women entrepreneurs has increased leading to a change in demographic characteristics of women. The present study was conducted to identify the social and profitable position among the women entrepreneurs as well as the colorful challenges facing by them during the starting and running the business.

Role of Self-Help Groups in Supporting Women Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Study

This paper is an attempt to investigate the role of self-help groups (SHGs) in promoting womenentrepreneurship through an empirical study. An effective program for women empowerment,self-help groups provide resources, training, market linkages, and credit, to create a platform forwomen to initiate their businesses and work towards obtaining a better standard of living. Asupport system that assists women in overcoming challenges and building resilience, womenparticipating in these groups have heightened their socio-economic status, and decision-makingskills and are able to participate in income-generating activities. SHGs also allow women toshare their knowledge, experience, and skills, seeking to improve self-confidence. Womenentrepreneurs can create employment opportunities for themselves and others, contributing to thegrowth of the national economy. The findings of this study prove that self-help groups (SHGs)support and promote women entrepreneurship

Women Entrepreneurship and Self-Reliant India; A Case Study of Barak Valley in Assam

The developmental goals of the nation and campaigns such as Atmanirbhar Bharat depends largely upon the increasing participation of women into economic activities in general, and as women entrepreneurs in particular, since, the female population of India is almost half of the total. Today the role of Women entrepreneur in economic development is inevitable because women are entering not only in selected professions but also in professions like trade, industry and engineering. Likewise, in the era of globalization, women in both the rural and urban areas of Barak Valley are also coming forward to establish themselves as entrepreneurs particularly owned enterprises on a small scale. Though women entrepreneurship is taking its root in the region, yet the present status is not satisfactory due to several factors. In order to promote women entrepreneurship, the different remedial measures have to be made at different levels of the economy. Hence, if India wants to attain the self-reliant tag in a true sense, the most viable option is to empower women economically through creating congenial opportunities for women entrepreneurs and to integrate them with the developmental goals of the nation and campaigns such as Atmanirbhar Bharat. Keywords: Atmanirbhar Bharat, Women Empowerment, Self-reliant Nation, Developmental Goals, Women Entrepreneurship, Barak Valley.

Credit Cooperative Lending Loans as Challenges and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurship in Africa: Evidence from Ghana

ABSTRACT This study examined how credit cooperative loans affect women entrepreneurship. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 women entrepreneurs from three Cooperative Lending groups in the Ashaiman Municipality of Ghana. We found that credit cooperative lending groups support and promote women entrepreneurship by providing their members with access to long-term interest-free credit support to start or expand their businesses. We also found that by providing their members with training and capacity-building opportunities to improve their skills for sustainable businesses and their income to pay back their loans, credit cooperative lending groups significantly contribute to women entrepreneurship. The contribution of this study is that it sheds light on how credit cooperative loans help to alleviate the difficulties that women entrepreneurs of the informal sector in Developing Countries face to have access to financial resources.

“Think entrepreneur – think male”: the effect of reduced gender stereotype threat on women's entrepreneurial intention and opportunity motivation

PurposeEntrepreneurship, which traditionally has been a male occupation, still attracts fewer women than men. Challenging gender stereotypes within entrepreneurship is one avenue to increase women's entrepreneurial intention and promote women entrepreneurship. This study adapts the “think manager – think male” leadership perspective to the entrepreneurship context and explores gender stereotype's implications for both entrepreneurial intention and motivation to become an entrepreneur.Design/methodology/approachA total of 902 Spanish non-entrepreneurs, both male and female, were randomly asked about the representation of successful entrepreneurs (no-gender-mention), successful men entrepreneurs or successful women entrepreneurs (reduced stereotype threat condition vs no-gender-mention or men entrepreneurs' conditions). Then, female participants' entrepreneurial intention, its antecedents (i.e. attitudes toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms and entrepreneurial self-efficacy) and necessity vs opportunity motivation were measured and compared to their male counterparts' scores in those three conditions.FindingsFemale participants reported higher entrepreneurial intention, self-efficacy and opportunity motivation when assigned to the successful women entrepreneurs' condition. Younger participants – compared to older ones – also exhibited higher entrepreneurial intention and opportunity motivation, more positive attitudes toward entrepreneurship and higher scores in subjective norms. Furthermore, findings suggest a woman entrepreneur seems to be less accessible (or more counter-stereotypical) to male participants than to female participants and, thus, the “think entrepreneur – think male” bias is more noticeable in male participants. Therefore, reducing negative stereotype threat for women in entrepreneurship may increase women's entrepreneurial career aspirations. This is of utmost importance to optimize training courses and mentoring programs to strengthen women's self-efficacy in their entrepreneurial skills and capabilities.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature about gender, entrepreneurial intention and motivation by adapting a leadership paradigm (“think manager – think male”) to entrepreneurship (“think entrepreneur – think male”). These findings shed new light on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention and motivation and have implications for policy measures. Acknowledging that exposure to successful women entrepreneurs as role models potentially facilitates entrepreneurship among women, governments should provide tailor-made incentives and support for women entrepreneurs in the form of awareness raising, networking and in the mass media.

Empowering vulnerable microfinance women through entrepreneurship: opportunities, challenges and the way forward

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore how vulnerabilities arising from physical impairments, age, widowhood, forced displacement due to war or natural disasters and sexual orientation affect women’s microfinance-related entrepreneurial activities and economic empowerment.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is a structured literature review and uses preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) method. The paper also uses agency, resources and achievement dimensions of empowerment to assess the findings.FindingsThis study reveals that although microfinance services promote women entrepreneurship, they also exacerbate exclusion and further discrimination. Individual-, household-, institutional- and community-level structures shape women’s agencies to access and use loans and conduct entrepreneurial activities; hence, ultimately economic empowerment.Originality/valueThe originality of this paper arises from the conceptual model we synthesised from our review which illustrates how vulnerable women’s agency is shaped by resources and how it affects their achievements in relation to entrepreneurial activities.

A Comparative Analysis of Women and Men-Owned MSMEs with Special Emphasis on Women Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Cachar District, Assam

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of micro, small and medium enterprises on women entrepreneurship development with particular reference to Cachar district of Assam. The study also aims to compare the characteristics and performance of women-owned MSMEs with those owned by men. A survey method is used to gather information from 200 MSME owner-managers located in various revenue circles/ tehsils of Cachar district. The results of the study indicate that, though very slowly, MSMEs are significantly promoting women entrepreneurship. The most important reasons for women entrepreneurs to join MSMEs appear to be (a) ‘profit motive’ or ‘to earn better income’, (b) ‘desire for independence’ and (c) ‘to support family’ or ‘the desire to provide financial security to the family’. The results of the Kruskal Wallis test demonstrate that women entrepreneurs’ background characteristics such as their marital status, age, levels of educational attainment, previous business experience and place of residence significantly affect their motivations to join MSMEs. While the employment growth in female-owned MSMEs is much higher than their male counterparts, net-return per owner-manager is found to be significantly higher in men-owned MSMEs than in women-owned MSMEs.

Women entrepreneurship in China: where are we now and where are we heading

ABSTRACT Despite the continuing growth in numbers of women entrepreneurs in China since the 1980s, research in this area has not kept pace with the development. In this paper, we critically review the current situation of women’s entrepreneurship in China and the status quo of research in this field. We then analyse the political, social, cultural, organizational, and individual barriers women entrepreneurs may encounter, as well as the policy initiatives and institutional and social support to promote women entrepreneurship. We further outline the main theoretical perspectives that have been mobilized to inform research on women’s entrepreneurship in China and indicate areas for future studies and how they may be framed. We argue for the need to adopt a more critical approach, such as feminist discourse analysis and a critical socio-technological perspective to inform future research, to shed light on a range of phenomena related to women’s entrepreneurship that have yet to receive adequate research attention. Our review has implications for human resource development in China and other societal contexts with similar cultural norms.

Entrepreneurial Success: Key Challenges Faced by Malaysian Women Entrepreneurs in 21st Century

The purpose of this research is to investigate the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs on entrepreneurial success in Malaysia. This study proposes a conceptual framework and investigates the significant factors of family and social support, emotional intelligence, gender stereotype, and knowledge and risk-taking behavior in predicting women entrepreneurial success. Data was collected using a questionnaire with a Likert scale from 1-5 from a sample of 125 women entrepreneurs who owned Small-Medium-Enterprises (SME) in Malaysia using a convenient sampling technique. Collected data were analysed using structural equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS 22 software. The result indicated that “knowledge” have significant negative impact on women entrepreneurial success, while all the other challenges identified in the previous research such as lack of emotional intelligence, lack of family support, poor risk taking behaviour, gender stereotype were not significant in influencing women entrepreneurial success. Family and social support, and risk-taking behaviour were found contradict with other previous researches indicating that women entrepreneurs are becoming more independent due to the changing norms and cultural values. In conclusion, women entrepreneurial success largely dependent on the work experiences, relevant skills/competencies and industrial know-how they acquired and mastered to effectively manage and grow their businesses. It is recommended that women-entrepreneurs in Small Medium Enterprises(SME) shall invest in continuous learning to gain more relevant skills/competencies, knowledge, industrial know-how and experiences to sharpen their competitive advantages and sustain continuous development and growth. Therefore, it’s highly recommended that government should formulate policies to promote women entrepreneurship through effective and practical trainings. This study will be useful for women entrepreneurs to develop themselves by investing themselves to gain knowledge by participating academic programs and industrial based network conferences. Entrepreneurial development authorities or bodies will be able to use this study to develop and design human resource development intervention program to enable women entrepreneurs to be more successful. Future researchers can increase the sample size and focus on similar type of small medium enterprise owners in terms of sector or industry and size. Also the future researchers can used a mixed method in collecting data to provide a more coherent and meaningful conclusion.

A qualitative approach towards crucial factors for sustainable development of women social entrepreneurship: Indian cases

Women entrepreneur has exceptional capabilities and proficiencies such as innovative and creative orientation, leadership qualities, self and social awareness, ability to identify opportunities, risk taking capacity equipped with ability to commercialize resources through the production of goods and services to meet the present market needs. The study explores the factors essential for the sustainable development of a holistic conceptual framework of competency development and thereby promoting women entrepreneurship. In-depth interviews of seven women entrepreneurs (WEs) from selected regions of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, India, were conducted for collecting data and information through open-ended questionnaire. During the review and analysis of cases, it has observed that personal, social and environmental factors have affected the development of entrepreneurial learning and competencies that are crucial for the success of women social entrepreneurs. The study findings would facilitate policy makers in for effective campaigning, encouragement and motivation of WEs besides policy bringing desired policy reforms.

Redes de apoyo al emprendimiento femenino en territorios rurales

Las condiciones del mercado de trabajo en las áreas rurales han convertido el autoempleo en una de las opciones recurrentes entre las mujeres que tratan de iniciar una actividad o consolidar su económica. Mediante técnicas cualitativas y a partir de un caso de estudio en un área LEADER española (Sierra del Segura, Albacete), este trabajo investiga las redes locales de apoyo al autoempleo femenino en zonas rurales, así como el impacto de la crisis económica sobre dicho sistema de apoyos. Los resultados más destacados señalan la importancia del asociacionismo empresarial femenino (redes formales) y los liderazgos locales (redes informales) como apoyos-fuerza al emprendimiento femenino rural. Asimismo, se pone de manifiesto la destrucción de gran parte de las redes de apoyos y el papel emergente de las entidades de la Economía Social y Solidaria como consecuencia de la crisis económica.

The antecedents of entrepreneurial intention among women entrepreneurs in India

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of entrepreneurial intention in promoting women entrepreneurship in Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). This study seeks to clarify the construct of entrepreneurial intention and then reports the validation of the entrepreneurial intention instrument. Design/methodology/approach An instrument has been designed and administered on a sample of 103 respondents across India from women entrepreneurs to understand the entrepreneurial intention by using cluster and snowball sampling. The data has been streamlined and then analyzed using descriptive analysis for validity and reliability checks. Findings This research was aimed to determine the constructs of entrepreneurial intention. Through data analysis, it has been observed that the reliability coefficients reveal the adequacy of the sample. The Cronbach’s alpha values for all the items in the instrument were found to be greater than or equal to 0.6. Strong correlations were also found between direct and indirect measures of entrepreneurial intention and hence confirmed that all the measures in the instrument were well constructed. Analysis has also explained the relationship between various constructs of entrepreneurial intention by using Pearson’s correlation coefficients. Strong and positive values of correlation explain the existence of the convergent and discriminant validity of the instrument. Research limitations/implications The research results obtained from the analysis of reliability and validity tests not only provides the establishment of the relationship among the various constructs but also suggests that the model provides a promising potential to measure entrepreneurial intention. This study will contribute to new knowledge of the conditions of women entrepreneurship from different perspectives by developing and validating an analytic model for promoting the women entrepreneurship in MSMEs of India. Practical implications From a government perspective, this model will help in designing training programmes for promoting women entrepreneurship in India. The obtained result also brings significant implications for practice as well as raises a broad future direction for other researchers Originality/value Extended SCCT model has recently suggested an inclusive framework of factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention, there is not much attempt made in research using this theory as background for predicting intention in the context of women entrepreneurship. This paper attempts to fill this gap by formulating a conceptual model for measuring entrepreneurial intention among women entrepreneurs by integrating and adapting the constructs of extended social cognitive career theory model and entrepreneurial potential model.

An Analysis in Encouraging and Promoting Women to turn into Entrepreneurs by Developing their Entrepreneurial Skills in Abu Dhabi (U.A.E)

The main aim of this study is to examine the Female entrepreneurship skills which motivate them to turn into a successful female entrepreneur. United Arab Emirates has always welcomed Women's no matter what color, religion, language sex or nationalities. Being the safest place on earth United Arab Emirates has always given special respect and place for Women in all sectors The main functions of a women entrepreneurs is to explore the prospects of starting a new venture, Undertake risks, handle the risks and economic uncertainty which happens in business, innovate new ideas and technologies, Coordinate administer, control Supervise and possess to be a good leader. At present United Arab Emirates is welcoming and opening new opportunities for Women's to explore their ideas here. United Arab Emirates is a welcoming landscape for startups. United Arab Emirates has a diverse economy which is a very huge opportunity for an entrepreneur. In Abu Dhabi, Last decade Women Entrepreneurs have been recognized as the untapped source of economic growth. However they still represent a minority of all entrepreneurs. Many authors have examined the Women entrepreneurs but up to date no studies has been conducted in Promoting Women entrepreneurship skills in United Arab Emirates. This may be because of the lack of information's. The research aims to focus in encouraging and promoting Women Entrepreneurs by developing their entrepreneurial skills which will turn them to become a successful. This research study will adopt ethnological nature of design. This study is predominantly based on primary data. This study collected information from primary data and secondary data also for the best effective way to make the study convenient personal interview or structured and unstructured interview will be framed for the collection of data from the sample women entrepreneurs. The collected data will be arranged, classified and organized as per the logic, similarities, uniqueness and methodology. The collected data will be analyzed using statistical package for social science software (SPSS). It's a software to manage the data and calculate a wide statistical data's. A pilot test will also be carried out to check the feasibility and reliability of the structured interview. The study adopted statistical tool Chi Square Test. The study also uses Correlation and ANOVA tool for analysis. The study further discusses the ways to improve the skills by Development, motivation and training programs. Women entrepreneur has been observed as a major source of knowledge about women's entrepreneurship and they are increasingly recognized as a valuable tool for its development and promotion. Women entrepreneur is related to both women's position in society and role of entrepreneurship in the same society. Women entrepreneurs must be taken seriously at individual level( the choice of becoming self-employed) and at the firm level( the performance of women owned and managed firms).The study also discussed about the training programs, in which models are considered to study into the relationship between the Women entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship skills, and the market. This study concluded that if the women is motivated more and encouraged will surely lead to become a successful women entrepreneur in United Arab Emirates, promoting the economic growth of the country and increasing employment opportunities and setting up example showing the women are no lesser than man and se. Noting is impossible for women also. The author thus submitting a theoretical study of Encouraging and promoting women entrepreneurs by developing their skills in United Arab Emirates .Only if the Entrepreneurial Skills are developed and focused on, the Women entrepreneurs can develop into a successful Entrepreneurs.