Capabilities, human development, and design thinking

A framework for gender-sensitive entrepreneurship programs

Bibliographic Data

ID9256167
AuthorsTonia Warnecke (Rollins College, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume74
Issue4
Pages420-430
Publication date2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of Social Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00346764.2016.1201136
OpenAlexW2464223182
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited19

This paper discusses the ways that capabilities and human development theory can guide the creation of entrepreneurship programs, utilizing a framework of human-centered design thinking. It is well known that a variety of institutional factors shape gender outcomes and gender inequality within entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to necessity versus opportunity entrepreneurship and informal versus formal sector entrepreneurship. Failure to understand the diversity of entrepreneurial activity among women, and the connection (or lack thereof) of such activity to human freedom, leads to biased entrepreneurship programs. This paper links social economic theory and practice by: (1) discussing the ways that capabilities and human development theory relate to entrepreneurship programs; (2) demonstrating that human-centered design thinking reflects the capabilities approach; and (3) showing how the design thinking framework would be used to create a gender-sensitive entrepreneurship program

Design Thinking · Diversity (politics) · Economic growth · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Human development (humanity) · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

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