Building on the theory of necessity entrepreneurship, we test whether female entrepreneurship was a part of the … entrepreneurial activity at the household level, acts as a catalyst for such female necessity entrepreneurship. Overall, the findings … suggest that crisis perhaps worked as a contextual factor contributing to the creation of necessary entrepreneurship among …

Contributors -- Part 1: Women's Entrepreneurship in a Transition Context: Key Issues -- 1 Introduction -- Part 2: Women …'s Entrepreneurship in Former Soviet Republics -- 2 Entrepreneurship in the Ukraine: A Male Female Comparison -- 3 Women Entrepreneurs …? -- 5 Djamila's Journey from Kolkhoz to Bazaar: Female Entrepreneurs in Kyrgyzstan -- Part 3: Women Entrepreneurship in …