The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship

Edited by Colette Henry, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland and UiT-The Arctic University of Norway; Teresa Nelson, Simmons College, Boston, USA, and Kate Lewis, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Introduction: The Context and Practice of Female Entrepreneurship

Colette Henry, Teresa Nelson & Kate Lewis

Part 1: The Context for Female Entrepreneurship



Women Entrepreneurs and Their Ventures: Complicating Categories and Contextualising Gender
Angela Martinez-Dy & Susan Marlow


Experiences of Women Entrepreneurs in Family Firms
Mary Barrett & Ken Moores


Women, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Kate Kearins & Katrin Schaefer


Saudi Women’s Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Social Construction of Norms and Perceptions
Renaud Redien-Collot, Laurice Alexandre & Wassim J. Aloulou


Female Academic Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation: Reviewing the Evidence and Identifying the Challenges
Helen Lawton Smith, Henry Etzkowitz, Viviana Meschitti & Alex Poulovassilis

Part 2: The Ecosystem for Female Entrepreneurs


Strategies to Redress Entrepreneurship Gender Gaps in Canada
Barbara J. Orser


U.S. Women Entrepreneurs and Their Access to Early-Stage Financing
Linda Edelman, Tatiana Manolova & Candida Brush


Financing High-Growth Women-Owned Firms in the United States: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications for Public Policy
Susan Coleman & Alicia Robb


Gender Differences in New Venture Funding: Supply-Side Discrimination or Demand-Side Disinclination?
John Watson, Michael Stuetzer & Roxanne Zolin

Part 3: Supporting Female Entrepreneurs


Supporting and Training Female Necessity Entrepreneurs
Walid A. Nakara, Nerine Bouguerra & Alain Fayolle


Entrepreneurial Role Models: An Integrated Framework from a Constructionist Perspective
Maria Cristina Díaz-García & Janice Byrne


Female Entrepreneurship, Role Models and Network Externalities in Middle–Income Countries
Maria Minniti


Revisiting Research on Gender in Entrepreneurial Networks
Lene Foss

Part 4: Identity


Identity Work, Swift Trust and Gender: The Role of Women-Only Leadership Development Programmes
Claire Leitch, Richard Harrison & Maura McAdam


Postfeminism and Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Identity of the ‘Mumpreneur’
Patricia Lewis


Female Lifestyle Entrepreneurs and Their Business Models
Helle Neergaard & Dorthe Refslund Christensen


Tales of Heroine Entrepreneurs
Karin Berglund, Helen Ahl & Katarina Pettersson


Perceived Legitimacy of Women Entrepreneurs in France: Between Identity Legitimacy and Entrepreneurial Legitimacy
Philippe Pailot, Corinne Poroli & Stéphanie Chasserio

Part 5: Demography


Women, Disability and Entrepreneurship
Kate Caldwell, Sarah Parker Harris & Maija Renko


Female Immigrant Global Entrepreneurship: From Invisibility to Empowerment?
Maria Villares-Varela, Monder Ram & Trevor Jones


Entrepreneurial Activity Among Irish Traveller Women: An Insight into the Complexity of Survival
Thomas M. Cooney & Denis Foley


Entrepreneurship, Age and Gender: The Swedish Case

Carin Holmquist & Elisabeth Sundin

Index