My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy

Shamsul Karim (), Caleb Kwong (), Mili Shrivastava () and Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada ()
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Shamsul Karim: University of Essex
Caleb Kwong: University of Essex
Mili Shrivastava: Bournemouth University
Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada: University of Southampton

Small Business Economics, 2023, vol. 60, issue 2, No 1, 409-431

Abstract: Abstract This paper provides new evidence at the intersectionality of gender, family status, and culture by focusing on a previously little researched group of middle-class women in an emerging economy. While the existing literature examines both structural and normative constraints for women entrepreneurship, little is known about the gains from relaxing structural constraints for women when compared to men. In addition to examining this new question, the paper sheds light on the binding nature of normative constraints for women entrepreneurship that persist in a patriarchal developing economy even when structural constraints are significantly eased. Using a mixed-methods approach, the empirical results suggest that higher resource availability differentially impacts the entrepreneurial intentions of women when compared to men indicating the strong presence of normative barriers that inhibit their entrepreneurship. These normative barriers emerge through the roles people play within women life spheres inhibiting their entrepreneurial intentions.

Keywords: Women entrepreneurship; Networks; Social norms; Resources; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 L26 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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