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Call for Papers Title: Managing the complexities of informal female entrepreneurship.
Guest Editors
Amitabh Anand,
Excelia Business School, CERIIM, La Rochelle, France.
Lamiae Benhayoun,
Rabat Business School, BearLab, Rabat, Morocco.
Tarik Saikouk,
Excelia Business School, CERIIM, La Rochelle, France.
Rana Zayadin,
University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom.
Informal female entrepreneurship (IFE) is central in this versatile entrepreneurial system, as women are largely necessity-driven while men are mainly voluntary participants in informal entrepreneurship (Williams, 2009). However, IFE is a highly complex phenomenon involving multi-level actors with uncommon inputs and synergies (Welter et al., 2015), particularly in developing countries (Rashid & Ratten, 2020). IFE refers to women who engage in self-employment or run their businesses informally without registering their businesses with the government (Thapa Karti et al., 2021). Informal women entrepreneurs (IFE) are found in various sectors, including trade, services, and manufacturing. They contribute important to their families, communities, and economies (Muhammad et al., 2021).
List of topic areas
- What traits and mindsets of IFE help scale businesses and navigate challenges in a particular institutional context?
- What are the conditions and mechanisms in which IFE and formal entrepreneurship co-exist?
- How does IFE improve their access to education, funding, resources, etc., to generate entrepreneurial opportunities?
- What challenges and opportunities does IFE face in managing logistics and transportation issues (e.g., last-mile parcel delivery, particularly in rural or underserved areas, perishable products)?
- What evidence or case exists on IFE advocating social and sustainable living globally?
- Cases and narratives on the role of IFE in the context of social and technological innovation (promoting sustainable products and services etc.) and economic contribution (e.g., employment generation, etc.)?
- What multi-level determinants and barriers (e.g., national policies, global crises, peculiarities of the informal business, background, and entrepreneur demographics) affect IFE?
- How does gender perception influence or navigate the journey of IFE (e.g., discrimination, violence, cultural norms, etc.)
- What are the potential implications of the formalization process on IFE, and how does it impact the entrepreneurial process (e.g., orientation, intention etc.) and economy?
- What are IFE's positive and negative effects on nations' inclusive and sustainable growth?
Call for papers Link : https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/managing-complexities-informal-female-entrepreneurship
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Amitabh Anand
Research Professor
Excelia Business School
La Rochelle
(076) 610-5122
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