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dc.contributor.authorFoss, Lene
dc.contributor.authorHenry, Colette
dc.contributor.authorAhl, Helene
dc.contributor.authorMikalsen, Geir Heidar
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-01T10:17:53Z
dc.date.available2019-02-01T10:17:53Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on women’s entrepreneurship policy as a core component of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We use a systematic literature review (SLR) approach to critically explore the policy implications of women’s entrepreneurship research according to gender perspective: feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theory, and post-structuralist feminist theory. Our research question asks whether there is a link between the nature of policy implications and the different theoretical perspectives adopted, and whether scholars’ policy implications have changed as the field of women’s entrepreneurship research has developed. We concentrate on empirical studies published in the “Big Five” primary entrepreneurship research journals (SBE, ETP, JBV, JSBM, and ERD) over a period of more than 30 years (1983–2015). We find that policy implications from women’s entrepreneurship research are mostly vague, conservative, and center on identifying skills gaps in women entrepreneurs that need to be “fixed,” thus isolating and individualizing any perceived problem. Despite an increase in the number of articles offering policy implications, we find little variance in the types of policy implications being offered by scholars, regardless of the particular theoretical perspective adopted, and no notable change over our 30-year review period. Recommendations to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women from a policy perspective are offered, and avenues for future research are identified.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in <i>Small Business Economics</i>. The final authenticated version is available online at: <a href=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-9993-8> https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-9993-8</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFoss, L., Henry, C., Ahl, H. & Mikalsen, G.H. (2018). Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy Research: A 30-year review of the evidence. <i>Small Business Economics</i>. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-9993-8en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1521560
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11187-018-9993-8
dc.identifier.issn0921-898X
dc.identifier.issn1573-0913
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/14582
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Verlag (Germany)en_US
dc.relation.journalSmall Business Economics
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210en_US
dc.subjectWomen’s entrepreneurshipen_US
dc.subjectEcosystemen_US
dc.subjectPolicy implicationsen_US
dc.subjectGender researchen_US
dc.subjectSystematic literature review (SLR)en_US
dc.titleWomen’s Entrepreneurship Policy Research: A 30-year review of the evidenceen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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