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Browsing 08 - 08th Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship (Mar. 2009) by Subject "Women Entrepreneurship"

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  • At Your Service" - Entrepreneurs as Keys to Social Locks 
    Mattila, Sari (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    This paper finds that entrepreneurship processes require keys to social locks in terms of mobility, resources, possibilities and self-understanding within and across societies. The paper draws on practices in entrepreneurship ...
  • Challenges Faced by Women Entrepreneurs Around Higher Educational Institutions on Proven Social Entrepreneurship Platforms 
    Amrita; Saurabh, Punit; Jagannathan, S.; Biswas, D (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Women have been playing an important role since ages in the economic development process in any society notwithstanding the cultural, social or gender factors. There are a number of evidences of contribution of women towards ...
  • Development of Women Entrepreneurship in India: Status & Challenges 
    Joshi, Gaurav; Rana, Divya (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Development of the society is directly related to the income-generation capacity of its members. With agriculture as the key income-generation activity, the entrepreneurship based on farm and home can directly affect the ...
  • The Emergence of Women-Owned Businesses as an Economic Force In India : Conceptual Insights & Opportunities Ahead 
    Singh, Surinder Pal (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    During the last two decades, Indian women have entered the field of entrepreneurship in greatly increasing numbers. With the emergence and growth of their businesses, they have contributed to the Indian economy and to their ...
  • Empowering Women in India 
    Muniyandi, C (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Women studies have vast scope in this twenty first century. This pragmatic science has the task of empowering women to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Most of the time, village women sit around, doing practically ...
  • Follow up Study on Women Entrepreneurs: Stories of Women Entrepreneurs - 16 years after 
    Bilgi, Meena; Kumar, Santosh (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    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. ...
  • Innovative Profession and Women Entrepreneurs: A Study on Women Entrepreneurs Engaged in Home Delivery Catering Services in Salt Lake Area, Kolkata, West Bengal 
    Maiti, Sajalkumar (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    In the present century, two significant developments are taking place in the global economy. One is women-owned businesses and the second is international trade. Women constitute half of the world's human resources. They ...
  • An Inquiry into the Economic Status of the Women in the Recent Time 
    Goklani, Rajani; Joshi, Samir (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    The problems of rapidly integrating women in the economic growth process have been drawing attention to planners, policy makers and entrepreneurs owning business (industry and services). This is mainly because of the ...
  • Maharshi Karve’s Entrepreneurial Venture for Women-Empowerment 
    Joshi, Pratibha (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Social entrepreneurship evolves from entrepreneurial venture committed to social cause. Maharshi Karve, founder of the 112 year old organization devoted to education of women, was an enlightened social entrepreneur in ...
  • Micro Units to Empower Women 
    Aslam, M.K. Muhammed (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Empowerment of women through micro units is the theme of our paper. Woman in India constitute around half of the country's population. Hence, they are regarded as the "better half of the society". In the official proclamation, ...
  • Microfinance and Tourism in the Development of Women Entrepreneurship: A Study of Four Gram Panchayats of Kandhamal District of Orissa 
    Digal, Sabatkumar (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    India resides in her villages and those living in the cities and towns have their roots in the village life, its art and crafts and its rituals. Visiting rural area is always a fulfilling experience, emotionally, and enables ...
  • Paradigm Shift in Development of Women Entrepreneurship in Uttarakhand State 
    Negi, Divya; Dangwal, R.C. (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Development of the society is directly related to the income-generation capacity of its members. With agriculture as the key income-generation activity, the entrepreneurship based on farm and home can directly affect the ...
  • Profile of Women Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Chandigarh 
    Malik, Shiva; Rao, Taranjit Kaur (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Entrepreneur is one who innovates, organizes, manages and assumes the risk of an enterprise and acts as a catalytic agent in growth process. When an enterprise is established and controlled by a woman, it not only boosts ...
  • Re-defining Women Entrepreneurship through SHG Movement in Rural Areas 
    Swain, B. K (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Women are now preferred clients in banks because they can be persuaded to operate on gendered notions of decency and discipline. The whole effort of gendering development has been endowed with the postulation that empowering ...
  • Role of Women Entrepreneurs Association of Tamil Nadu [WEAT] in Promoting Women Entrepreneurship 
    Manimekalai, N (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Entrepreneurship is a major factor which contributes for the industrial development and over all development of a nation. However, it has been the domain of men for a long. With the advent of change in the policies and ...
  • Solutions towards Issues of a Women Entrepreneur throw of uPVC Plastic Profiles in Building Construction – A Business with Minimum Man Power 
    Pathak, V. A.; Desai, D.J.; Patel, Nitika (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    In US alone women are the majority owners in 30% of all privately held firms. These firms have $2.5 trillion in revenues and employ 19.1 million individuals as per a study made last year. Despite the large number of women ...
  • Women Entrepreneur and Gender Issues 
    Singh, Prachi (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Women's entrepreneurship is on the increase around the world. Women -owned businesses comprise between one -quarter and one-third of businesses in the formal economy, and probably play a greater role in the informal sector. ...
  • Women Entrepreneurs in the Fashion Design Industry at Ahmedabad: Issues, Challenges and Progress Path 
    Shah, Paragi; Mehta, Bijal (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Women Entrepreneurs may be defined as a woman or a group of women who initiate, organize and operate a business enterprise. They explore the prospects of starting new enterprise; undertake risks, introduce new innovations, ...
  • Women Entrepreneurship and Gender Bias: A Study of Micro Enterprises in Bhopal 
    Singh, Richa (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-03-19)
    Women constitute half of the world's population. Today the difficulty is to move from the acceptance of equal rights to the reality of equal opportunity. This transition will not be complete until women and men have equal ...
  • Women Entrepreneurship and Gender Issues 
    Anbuoli, P.; Sundari, M. (Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development, 2009-02-19)
    "A women entrepreneur is one who owns and controls an enterprise having a minimum financial interest of 51% of capital and giving at least 51% of the employment generated in the enterprise to women." Women Entrepreneurship ...

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