Resilience, Leadership and Female Entrepreneurship within the Context of SMEs: Evidence from Latin America

Ángel Acevedo-Duque, Romel Gonzalez-Diaz, Elena Cachicatari Vargas, Anherys Paz-Marcano, Sheyla Muller-Pérez, Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda, Giulia Caruso and Idiano D’Adamo
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Ángel Acevedo-Duque: Public Policy Observatory, Faculty of Business and Administration, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 7500912, Chile
Romel Gonzalez-Diaz: Centro Internacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (CIID), Montería 230001, Colombia
Elena Cachicatari Vargas: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Tacna 23000, Peru
Anherys Paz-Marcano: Programa de Administración de Empresas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de La Guajira, Riohacha 440001, Colombia
Sheyla Muller-Pérez: Public Policy Observatory, Faculty of Business and Administration, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 7500912, Chile
Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda: Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
Giulia Caruso: Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Idiano D’Adamo: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-17

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze resilient female leadership as a sustainable promoter of business excellence in small and medium-sized Wayuu handicraft marketing enterprises. The present study uses a quantitative methodology with a non-experimental cross-sectional field design, with an analysis and interpretation of the data provided by the surveyed subjects. A 33-item questionnaire with multiple response options is applied. The population consists of 110.012 eradicated women. A probabilistic sampling technique is applied with a margin of error of 5% and a confidence level of 95%, for a total of 383 Wayuu women entrepreneurs in the Department of La Guajira, Colombia. Our findings explain that female leadership transcends the boundaries of business management, being present in both small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study confirms the positive relationship between sustainability and resilience in the Wayuu handicrafts market, being women who turn their actions into success factors by working with women who show technical, conceptual, and human skills.

Keywords: women’s leadership; America Latina; small and medium-sized enterprises; resilience; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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