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several exploratory field trips to Mongolia, two women‐founded, women‐owned cases were selected and studied. Findings – The … women to become entrepreneurs. Further, the findings suggest that the Mongolian nomadic culture of adventurism, secular … culture of feminism and Asian culture of collectivism play important roles in motivating and supporting women to become …
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to particularly point out that Japan's experience both before after the Second World War will be relevant as a model for … the Second World War and then to contemporary China's experience. The analysis of Japan uses the substantial research …
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, and labor force statistics are collected from United Arab Emirates' government reports, the World Economic Forum, and … – Results for the education of women have been at a consistently high level for some years. Two themes are found for such … progress: a government strategy to increase women's access to education; societal acceptance of educated women. Gender equality …
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Purpose – In this paper the authors aim to examine the forms in which feminist activism is played out at contemporary managerial universities and pose the following question: what notions of feminist activism and feminist theory have to be revisited in order to sustain the target of gender...
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Purpose – Past research has identified a negative association between national income and female entrepreneurship rates. Data from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2012 are analyzed to determine whether the Human Development Index (HDI) predicts female entrepreneurship rates. The purpose...
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Purpose Public-private partnerships (PPPs) offer governments an opportunity to access private capital and skills to build or upgrade, operate and manage public water infrastructure services hitherto provided and run by the public sector. Access to private finance speeds up the provision of...
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experiences of women managers/directors in senior positions within a variety of organizations. All of these papers demonstrate … that despite their economic empowerment, these women are still strongly connected to the domestic realm through their … authors comment on how contemporary notions of merit and choice individualise women's experience within organisations …
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Purpose – Several studies have provided empirical evidence that female labor force participation rate exhibits a U‐shape during the process of economic development. The purpose of this paper is to explore the existence of U‐shape relationship in the case of Pakistan and if it does exist,...
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‐related group participation for poor women in developing countries: an exploratory look.” Design/methodology/approach – Professor … Schein traveled to Nicaragua, to lower‐income settings, where she observed and recorded the experiences of women working in … self‐organized groups, and used those observations to argue to the profession generally that self‐organized groups of women …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the factors that influence the decision of married women (in the …
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