Follow up Study on Women Entrepreneurs Stories of Women Entrepreneurs - 16 years after / Bilgi, Me
By: Bilgi, Meena
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ArticlePublisher: 2009Subject(s): Edi Faculty Papers | Case Studies | Women Entrepreneurs | Gender Issues | Gender | Women Entrepreneurship | Women Entrepreneurship And Gender Issues | Entrepreneurshiphip Research | Eighth Biennial Conference On Contempora | Biennial Conference Papers
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Eighth Biennial Conference on Contemporary Issues in Entrepr ResearchSummary: The paper describes six case studies of those Women Entrepreneurs who were first interviewed extensively as part of the Research and subsequently a published book called In Search of Identity by EDI, India in 1991-1992. A need was felt to undertake follow-up study in view of the fact that over last 16 years there has been sea changes within the country owing to liberalization, globalization and privatization. Whereas on one side, the economic globalization have created opportunities for women having increased access to information, technology, knowledge and opportunities thereby better recognition and quality of life, same time, it has resulted in a significant percent of women accepting poorly paid, unstable jobs and harsh working conditions, and increased their vulnerability to economic and sexual exploitation. The research focus is to understand the processes of facilitating and hindering factors in women led enterprises especially survival and growth, document the experiences of women entrepreneurs in the face of changing society from Gender Lens, understand the perceptions/views of stakeholders; family, employees, bankers/financial institutions, consumers etc., derive...
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The paper describes six case studies of those Women Entrepreneurs who were first interviewed extensively as part of the Research and subsequently a published book called In Search of Identity by EDI, India in 1991-1992. A need was felt to undertake follow-up study in view of the fact that over last 16 years there has been sea changes within the country owing to liberalization, globalization and privatization. Whereas on one side, the economic globalization have created opportunities for women having increased access to information, technology, knowledge and opportunities thereby better recognition and quality of life, same time, it has resulted in a significant percent of women accepting poorly paid, unstable jobs and harsh working conditions, and increased their vulnerability to economic and sexual exploitation. The research focus is to understand the processes of facilitating and hindering factors in women led enterprises especially survival and growth, document the experiences of women entrepreneurs in the face of changing society from Gender Lens, understand the perceptions/views of stakeholders; family, employees, bankers/financial institutions, consumers etc., derive...
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