Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Gendered Perspectives on Organizational Creation: Lessons from the Past and Insights for the Future -- Chapter 3. Entrepreneurship Research After Chiles, Bluedorn, And Gupta (2007): Has The Field Delivered On The Promise Of Good Scholarship? -- Chapter 4. A...

Women-owned businesses have an economic impact of nearly $3 trillion in the U.S. Despite the tremendous opportunity for economic growth they present, women entrepreneurs lag behind their male counterparts in terms of number of start-ups and scaling of businesses. To understand how and why this...

Purpose – The Guest Editors' intent with this special issue is to tell tales of the field and beyond, but all with the serious end of rendering visible the largely invisible. This paper aims to introduce the articles forming the special issue, as well as reviewing extant work that foregrounds...

Purpose – This paper aims to highlight secular and Islamic feminist approaches to entrepreneurship as potential means to challenge gender inequality in the Turkish context. In Turkey, gender equality remains elusive in a nation where secular and Islamic ideologies compete and produce different...

In this paper, I discuss challenges critical scholars face with respect to publishing qualitative research in ‘top tier' mainstream journal outlets. Relying on ideas and insights from postcolonial and feminist thinking, I discuss how these theoretical positions inform reading, writing, and...

While entrepreneurship may be driven by personal interests and lifestyle choices, entrepreneurial actions are not only economically driven opportunity-searching processes but also enactments of social transformation that may or may not lead to socioeconomic benefits. We advance that exploring...

Guided by feminist perspectives, we critique existing approaches to the study of women's entrepreneurship on epistemological grounds and suggest that the entrepreneurship field needs to recognize gendered assumptions in theorizing. Deploying a feminist framework, we suggest that understanding...