Gender and entrepreneurship revisited from a community perspective

Experiences in a New Immigrant Gateway and Beyond

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4140307
AutoresQingfang Wang (0000-0002-7285-4027, School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA, autor de correspondencia), Elizabeth Morrell (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen47
Número12
Páginas2645-2662
Fecha de publicación2015-12-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x15615366
OpenAlexW2277001050
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas41

Women-owned enterprises have boomed significantly during the past several decades. The purpose of this study is to theorize and empirically delineate the connections between female entrepreneurship and community development through the lens of entrepreneurship. Our results indicate that, from the initial creation of these businesses, to their daily operations and resource mobilization through social networks, women entrepreneurs are closely connected to local communities through their business activities. At the same time, as engagement and payback to local communities are fundamental to their professional goals and operation strategies, female entrepreneurship activities have significantly contributed to local communities in a wide range of ways. The dialectical connections between women business owners and their communities have significant potential to be incorporated into community development policies and practices

Business · Community development · Dialectic · Economic growth · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Immigration · Local community · Political science · Public relations · Small business · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Marketing