Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship

14 Women's entrepreneurship in Swedish forestry

A matter of adaptation or transformation?

Marie Appelstrand and Gun Lidestav

At global, national and local levels, women’s entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as an important driving force in sustainable and inclusive societal development (SOU, 20171: Warren-Smith & Jackson, 2004). This development is important especially for rural development, where entrepreneurship and diversification in the natural resource sectors have been encouraged as means of compensating for the decline of employment due to centralization and mechanization (Risku-Norja et al., 2010). Still, migration from rural areas, in the search for work opportunities in urban settings, has become an increasing challenge. Many ...