Understanding Women’s Entrepreneurship in a Gendered Context: Influences and Restraints

Shumaila Yousafzai is Associate Professor at Cardiff University, UK. Her research focuses on the contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship, institutional theory and entrepreneurial orientation. She has published in various international journals and has co-edited a special issue on women’s entrepreneurship for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.

Alain Fayolle is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Founder and Director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre at EM Lyon Business School, France. Alain has published 35 books and over 150 articles. In 2013, he received the European Entrepreneurship Education Award and in 2015, he was elected Wilford L. White Fellow by ICSB (International Council for Small Businesses). He was elected Chair of the AOM (Academy of Management) Entrepreneurship Division for the academic year 2016-2017.

Saadat Saeed is Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Durham University Business School, UK. His past research efforts have included the global study of supportive institutions and women’s entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in adverse conditions, corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in multi-country contexts.

Colette Henry, FRSA, is Head of School of Business & Humanities at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland, and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Colette holds the Diana International Trailblazer award for Female Entrepreneurship and the Sten K Johnson European Entrepreneurship Education Award.

Adam Lindgreen is Professor of Marketing and Head of Department of Marketing at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and he is Extraordinary Professor with Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has published in California Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Product and Innovation Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of World Business and Organization Studies, amongst others.