5 Leveraging micro-level support factors to overcome macro-level challenges

Palestinian and Saudi Arabian female entrepreneurs

Beverley McNally and Grace Khoury

Entrepreneurship is the consequence of the interplay between the individual and their environment (Solesvik, Westhead, & Matlay, 2014). Specifically, female entrepreneurial activity is deeply embedded in the structural and institutional characteristics of the country in which it is situated. Therefore, it is important that any examination of female entrepreneurship must include consideration of the institutional structures of the context in which it is situated. This includes how entrepreneurship is influenced by the norms, values and principles of the social context and the priority ...

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