Women's self-employment: An act of institutional (dis) integration? A multilevel, cross-country study

K Klyver, SL Nielsen, MR Evald - Journal of Business Venturing, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate the extent to which gender equality disintegrates women's self-
employment choice (compared to that for men) and whether this is contingent upon a …

Contexts and gender–looking back and thinking forward

F Welter - International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to illustrate the main contributions of the context-gender discussion
in entrepreneurship research and its main developments over time to identify promising …

Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy

H Ahl, K Berglund, K Pettersson… - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Policy for women's entrepreneurship is designed to promote economic growth, not
least in depleted rural areas, but very little is known about the contributions of rural women …

The gendering of entrepreneurship context

F Welter, C Brush, A De Bruin - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung …, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
The paper builds on the understanding of context as suggested by Welter (2011) who
introduced different dimensions of context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship …

Gender perspectives on university education and entrepreneurship: A conceptual overview

S Tegtmeier, J Mitra - International Journal of Gender and …, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to direct attention to recent research on women's
entrepreneurship with a focus on university education. A literature review and a summary of …

Women's entrepreneurship, neoliberalism and economic justice in the postfeminist era: A discourse analysis of policy change in Sweden

K Berglund, H Ahl, K Pettersson… - Gender, Work & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Since the early 1990s, there has been investment in women's entrepreneurship policy
(WEP) in Sweden, which continued until 2015. During the same period, Sweden assumed …

Women's rural businesses: for economic viability or gender equality?–a database study from the Swedish context

M Tillmar, B Sköld, H Ahl, K Berglund… - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss to what extent and why
women's entrepreneurship contributes to rural economic viability and gender equality in an …

Timeout: The role of family-friendly policies in business start-up among mothers

M Markowska, H Ahl, L Naldi - Entrepreneurship Theory and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores why an increasing number of Swedish mothers are becoming
entrepreneurs; this choice appears counterintuitive given the prevailing social welfare …

Work–family conflict among employees and the self-employed across Europe

A Annink, L Den Dulk, B Steijn - Social indicators research, 2016 - Springer
This article examines the level of work–family conflict of self-employed persons, a changing
but neglected group in work–life research, compared to employees in Europe. Differences …

From feminism to FemInc. ism: On the uneasy relationship between feminism, entrepreneurship and the Nordic welfare state

H Ahl, K Berglund, K Pettersson, M Tillmar - … and Management Journal, 2016 - Springer
Feminism in the Nordic countries was primarily formulated in terms of 'state feminism'. The
women's movement cooperated with feminist government officials and politicians, resulting …