Babson College's Diana International Research Institute & University of Auckland's Aotearoa Centre for Enterprising Women - Call for Papers
Submissions due: December 1, 2024
Submission portal: https://bit.ly/2025DIRC
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Diana International Research Conference will be held at the University of Auckland, New Zealand from July 1-4, 2025, with the theme:
Entrepreneurship at the Edge: Extending the Boundaries of Gender and Entrepreneurship
Women's entrepreneurship is limitless and should know no boundaries. It is estimated that women enter entrepreneurship at 80% the rate of men, yet women who run and own established businesses is significantly lower at 68% (2022/23 GEM Women's Report). Whilst the boundaries enabling start-up may have shifted to facilitate greater parity for women entrepreneurs, there still remain limits within entrepreneurial ecosystems on their capacity to survive, thrive and experience full inclusiveness.
Second, our pre-occupation with researching gender and entrepreneurship, despite recent attention afforded to intersectionality (Marlow & Martinez Dy, 2018) has remained somewhat mainstream, Westernized and 'safe.' Understanding how gender and entrepreneurship is enacted on peripheries, within diverse communities and rich cultures and by people (women, transgender, non-binary) who not fit traditional stereotypes can offer much promise for developing this field.
With this Call, we seek contributions that extend research to explore entrepreneurship at the edge, encouraging us to broaden the entrepreneurial landscape in our examination of how gender influences entrepreneurial access, survival and growth. The 2025 Conference seeks conceptual and empirical papers that consider under-explored contexts, populations and approaches that embrace the use of leading-edge methodologies that push the boundaries of what we already know or apply cutting-edge theories to explore research questions.
More specifically, invited topics may include but are not restricted to:
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Women's entrepreneurship in and across contexts: global, multi-cultural, geographic, community, family, industrial, sectoral, cultural and institutional
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Women-led businesses: characteristics (e.g. size, technology, innovation, form, growth trajectory)
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Women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial processes: organizing, launching, developing, financing, managing, growing and exiting
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Intersections of individual and social differences for women entrepreneurs: skills, competencies, race, class, ethnicity, socio-cultural, experiences, education
We encourage papers that explore new research ideas, adopt novel methodological approaches and contribute to theory development to help advance the field and pave the way for an exciting future research agenda for the Diana community.
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Candida Brush
Babson College
Wellesley MA
(781) 239-5014
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