Genderpreneurship: Business Case versus Populism

Book ID: ISED-360

Book Type: Soft Copy

Description

The analysis and practice of entrepreneurship as a discipline has been significantly influenced by many social science disciplines. For arriving at operationally meaningful policies and strategies, a cross-disciplinary rather than uni-disciplinary understanding of entrepreneurship would be useful. A relatively mature discipline of entrepreneurship, as we have it today, is the outcome of cross-breeding of disciplines. An excursion into the theoretical and analytical approaches in the subject area and an examination of the available evidence base, forms the scope of this paper. The first part provides an overview of how entrepreneurship among women has been approached by various disciplines, and the theoretical framework in which the dynamics of the subject has been discussed. Secondly, against the above background, the key areas of debates have been discussed. Based on available literature, prior knowledge, and institutional capabilities, it also discusses the relationship between policy and practice