De Gruyter Handbook of Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies

Whilst women-owned businesses have a significant positive impact on poverty reduction and social exclusion, we know far too little about women's entrepreneurship in an emerging economy context. This handbook aims to fill that void by giving voice to women entrepreneurs who are far too often overlooked or even invisible.

The chapters offer varied perspectives on the challenges that women entrepreneurs in emerging markets experience, foremost among these the lack of resources, education, and access to finance, as well as gender-related inequalities, and the impact of social expectations. The handbook portrays how, despite these challenges, women use creative and work-around strategies to access resources, build networks and grow their businesses.

De Gruyter Handbook of Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies brings together contributions from leading experts in the field and is a must-read for academic scholars and postgraduate students interested in gender and entrepreneurship diversity.

Auteur

Helle Neergaard, MSc, PhD (1999), Professor of Entrepreneurship. Professor Neergaard holds a position as Section Head at the Department of Management at Aarhus University. During her career she has also held various positions as visiting professor at e.g. Leeds University Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aalto University, and OTH Regensburg. She has been a board member of ECSB for 15 years and during that time also served as President for the organization from 2013-2015. In 2017 she was appointed Fellow of ECSB. She is currently the Chair of the Advisory Board for WEGate. She has 25 years' experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate programmes. She has 10+ years of experience from various doctoral programme boards, designing and implementing doctoral programmes, courses and workshops in publication, qualitative methods and entrepreneurship (education and gender). She has 15 years of research management experience in entrepreneurship research projects and communities and possesses an intimate knowledge of academic progress and review procedures. Her main interests concentrate on women's entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. She has approximately 150 publications: 28 peer reviewed journal articles of international standing, 5 books, 23 book chapters. 7 best paper awards. She serves and has served on numerous editorial boards. In 2018, she was chosen as a Sten K. Johnson European Entrepreneurship Education Laureate for her innovativeness in entrepreneurship education. She has also received the Emerald Literati Award for Excellence. Her most cited publication is Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship (2007) published by Edward Elgar (523 cites).

Professor Maribel Guerrero, M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Business Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). She is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the School of Business and Economics (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile) and Newcastle Business School (Northumbria University, UK). She has more than ten years of experience from various entrepreneurship undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Chile, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Her main research interests are focused on four areas: i) the determinants of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities developed by individuals, public and private organizations; ii) the impacts of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities on the societal, economic, and technological development of economies; iii) the configuration/evolution of entrepreneurship and innovation eco-systems and iv) the role of diversity and minority entrepreneurship on the configuration of entrepreneurship eco-systems and the socio-economic development of emerging economies. Prof. Guerrero has published more than sixty scholarly international publications in academic journals, five special issues, and five books regarding entrepreneurial universities, technology transfer and minorities in emerging economies. She is part of the editorial board of the Journal of Technology Transfer (Associate Editor), Journal of Small Business Management (Associate Editor), Technology Forecasting and Social Change (Advisor Board), and Small Business Economics (Reviewer Board).
Prof. Guerrero is the cofounding director of the Spanish Observatory of University Entrepreneurship (2016) and a founding member of the Northumbria Centre for Innovation, Regional Transformation, and Entrepreneurship (iNCITE, 2018). She has collaborated in the HEInnovate platform sponsored by the OCDE/European Commission. She is an active research fellow of international consortiums related to the measure of entrepreneurship and innovation activity such as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (Chile, Belarus, & Spain), the Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (Spain), and Global University Entrepreneurship Spirit Students'