The topics of gender and entrepreneurship have been of great scholarly interest since the
eighties. In this invited editorial, we provide an overview of the evolution of the field of …

The purpose of this editorial is twofold. First, we present a framework to help make sense of
how research in gender and entrepreneurship is currently conceptualized and positioned …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore future research agendas in the field of
gender and entrepreneurship by outlining a critical overview of the current theorising …

Female entrepreneurship to date represents a key component of the business sector
worldwide as, in 2012 more than 187 million out of 400 million entrepreneurs were women …

Purpose This paper aims to add to the diversity of gender and entrepreneurship studies by
presenting the (lived experience) perspective on the development of research on women as …

The past thirty years have seen the development of a burgeoning academic literature
investigating the small firms sector from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. In a …

Purpose The purpose of this short commentary reflects upon how feminist theory might be
used to advance the contemporary gendered critique of women's entrepreneurship. Drawing …

Colette Henry and Susan Marlow 1. intRoduction despite early work by schwartz in 1976,
the discrete field of 'female entrepreneurship'did not emerge as an identifiable and coherent …

Purpose–This extended Editorial outlines the genesis and theoretical interests of the Gender
and Enterprise Network from which this special issue of the International Journal of …

Entrepreneurship is a human universal. All over the world, and throughout history, people
have created businesses. Yet, although women make up more than 50 percent of the world …