Governments, as dominant purchasers of goods and services, use procurement policy as a vehicle to facilitate the development ecosystem for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) (Ram and Smallbone, 2003). Historically, federal procurement policy has been viewed as a means to redress...

Purpose – This paper aims to offer a brief history of the International Council for Small Business‐ International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship ‐National Women's Business Council (ICSB‐ IJGE ‐NWBC) Best Paper Award for Women's Enterprise Development. The award has a unique...

This report intends to introduce the discussion of gender gaps in entrepreneurship development and to explore possible actions that could effectively foster women's entrepreneurship. With this purpose in mind, the authors searched for results of recent fieldwork on women entrepreneurs in Latin...

En América Latina y el Caribe son limitadas las investigaciones sobre el papel de las mujeres empresarias y pocos programas las promueven. De hecho, los datos estadísticos que captan las brechas de género en las pequeñas empresas así como la información cualitativa sobre las mujeres...

En América Latina y el Caribe son limitadas las investigaciones sobre el papel de las mujeres empresarias y pocos programas las promueven. De hecho, los datos estadísticos que captan las brechas de género en las pequeñas empresas así como la información cualitativa sobre las mujeres...

This report intends to introduce the discussion of gender gaps in entrepreneurship development and to explore possible actions that could effectively foster women's entrepreneurship. With this purpose in mind, the authors searched for results of recent fieldwork on women entrepreneurs in Latin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an account of women business owners in the Middle East and North Africa. Design/methodology/approach – This five‐country research study included face‐to‐face interviews with women entrepreneurs in Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and the...