This article explores links between entrepreneurship education (EE) participation, alertness and risk-taking skills and the intensity of entrepreneurial intention relating to becoming an entrepreneur. Guided by insights from human capital and socially learned stereotypes theories, we...

This study explores the linkage between entrepreneurship-specific education participation, alertness and risk-taking general human capital skills, and the intensity of entrepreneurial intention. We integrate insights from human capital theory with views from social feminist theory and socially...

Purpose – This paper studies female entrepreneurship in two post‐Soviet countries – Russia and Ukraine. Employing institutional theory, the research aims to investigate the entrepreneurial environment, particularly government support programmes and the availability of financial resources,...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine barriers to finance experienced by female owner/managers of marginal farms in the Punjab region of India. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on the preliminary results of a survey conducted with 48 marginal farmers and 15 bank managers in...