Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship

9 Opportunity creation for female entrepreneurs in the Welsh and Turkish entrepreneurial ecosystem

A social capital perspective

Shandana Sheikh, Aybeniz Akdeniz, Federica Sist, Shumaila Yousafzai and Saadat Saeed

While women entrepreneurship (WE) is identified as the ‘way forward’ (World Economic Forum, 2012), the discourse on the ‘ underperformance’ of women enterprises compared to their male counterparts still holds (Ahl, 2006; Marlow et al., 2008; Eddleston & Powell, 2008). Much of this debate results from the adopting a narrow approach to studying WE, one that focuses only on individual factors and disregards the impact of macro-level factors on WE, thus ignoring the factors that affect women performance. Such tendency is even more common ...