How to empower women? Modelling the factors increasing women's entrepreneurial intention

Bijay Prasad Kushwaha, Raj Kumar Singh, Vikas Tyagi and Bhagwati Prasad Chaudhary

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2025, vol. 37, issue 1, 108-129

Abstract: The study investigates essential factors that help in developing entrepreneurial intention in women. It also identifies the gravity of these factors in building business intent in women. The judgemental sampling procedure was applied to choose 402 women of Chandigarh Tri-city, India. The PLS-SEM has been used to check the fitness of the conceptual framework. Smart PLS provides a comprehensive platform to develop and evaluate the measurement and structural model therefore this technique is used. The findings of this study recognised that internal and external forces are equally important to creating entrepreneurial intent in women. However, internal forces are more imperative over external forces to create entrepreneurial intention. Similarly, environmental factors which are a part of external forces are having an inverse effect however the effect is significant among them. This study is useful to encourage, identify hurdles and provide a solution to bring women into entrepreneurial activities.

Keywords: women entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial intentions; personal factors; psychological factors; PLS-SEM. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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