To address the paradox that represents a shortage of women in management and senior leadership positions around the world, while research has consistently shown that having women in positions of influence leads to noteworthy organizational benefits, as guest editors for this special issue, we...

High growth firms, often referred to as “gazelles,” are equated with entrepreneurial success and celebrated as the key to growing economies, and women's entrepreneurship is a vehicle of economic and social development. This special issue publishes papers that address the general lack of...

Contents: 1 Introduction to women's entrepreneurship and culture: Socio-cultural dynamics, role-influenced behaviors and constraint negotiation / Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana S. Manolova and Leon Schjoedt -- Part I: The effects of a society's culture on the embeddedness of women's...