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International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
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Article publication date: 9 February 2023
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This paper aims to organize the existing empirical research on women entrepreneurs (WEs) in India, highlight the research areas that have not received attention and present opportunities for future research.
Design/methodology/approach
A systematic literature review (SLR) was performed on 74 scholarly articles focusing on WEs in India and published between 1993 and 2020. This review is structured around the 4W framework used in previous SLRs. The review is directed by the following foci: what do we know about academic research on WEs in India? How were these studies conducted? Where were these studies conducted? Why should academicians and practitioners consider WE research?
The authors arrived at four main themes underlying the empirical research on WEs: success factors for WEs, challenges faced by WEs, factors that attract and motivate WEs and performance measures for WEs. While challenges and success factors have received attention from researchers, there is a distinct lack of papers on factors that attract or motivate WE and performance measures. The main gaps identified were a lack of theoretical basis in studies, reliance on interview and survey-based methodology and a lack of context-specific studies.
Research limitations/implications
The findings of this review are limited to WEs operating in India. Only Scopus-indexed journals listed in the Australian Business Dean's Council Journal Quality List (ABDC JQL) were included in the final SLR list.
Originality/value
This is one of the first studies to use a systematic approach to provide a detailed account of the state of the literature on women's entrepreneurship research in India.
- Women entrepreneurs
- Women entrepreneurship
- Systematic literature review
- Developing countries
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Impactful Policy Research in Social Sciences (IMPRESS) fund provided by Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR)[Grant number: IMPRESS/P1424/81/18-19/ICSSR].
Baral, R. , Dey, C. , Manavazhagan, S. and Kamalini, S. (2023), "Women entrepreneurs in India: a systematic literature review", International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship , Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 94-121. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-05-2021-0079
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Social entrepreneurship (SE) has emerged as a strong force to bridge the gap between the demand and supply for fulfilment of socio-economic and environmental needs. SE emerged as a response to failure of market, state or both in meeting needs of society particularly at the bottom of the pyramid. SE has been rapidly growing in all the sectors: private, public and non-profit. It focuses on social impact and an innovative approach to achieve its purpose with the combination of social mission, entrepreneurship and creativity. It is of particular importance to India because the developmental needs of India cannot be solely addressed by government efforts or by the market forces. This chapter aims at explaining about SE as a field of knowledge, i.e. how social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurs work to address the unmet needs of the society, its emergence in India, coherence of SE and Indian values, and a typology of social entrepreneurs for the Indian context. We also propose a research agenda on the topic.
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