 Cultural factors and Arab female entrepreneurs in SpainSaikat Gochhait, Miriam Cano-Rubio, Rocío Martínez-Jiménez and Sabiha Fazalbhoy International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2023, vol. 50, issue 2, 218-242 Abstract: In the Arab world, the families control most of the businesses located in Asia and the Middle East - countries where gender gaps exist and where women have less freedom to directly influence their personal and work lives. In the host countries, formal institutions play a crucial role in affecting women's entrepreneurship. However, many informal factors, such as gender roles and stereotypes, can influence women's behaviour with respect to entrepreneurship. Therefore, this paper analyses the primary motivations of women entrepreneurs in a different cultural environment, Spain, where less than 5% of the adult female population launches businesses. Finally, it discusses how the previously mentioned stereotypes of Arab women influence their initiative in running a business in a psychologically and culturally distant country such as Spain. Keywords: women entrepreneurship; Arab world; Spain; motives and obstacles; gender stereotypes; total early stage entrepreneurial activity; TEA; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; GEM; UAE; technological innovations; cultural environment; interpretative phenomenological analysis; IPA. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:50:y:2023:i:2:p:218-242 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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