Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship

3 Gendered expectations and ideologies of patriarchy

Contextualizing Arab women's entrepreneurial leadership

Hayfaa Tlaiss

Despite the recent growth of the literature on entrepreneurial leadership, the subject remains a theoretical in nature and lacks definitional clarity (Harrison, Leitch, & McAdam, 2015). The currently available body of work draws on entrepreneurship and leadership literature but does not clearly articulate a theory of entrepreneurial leadership (Leitch, McMullan, & Harrison, 2013). Furthermore, when entrepreneurship studies mention gender, it is synonymous with women (Marlow & Swail, 2014) and is applied as a generic and static concept in women’s entrepreneurship studies. Gender is simply another variable that women introduce ...