Female Entrepreneurship in East and South-East Asia: Opportunities and Challenges
has hit the shelves with some interesting researches on:
- opportunity to acquire knowledge on the socio-economic roles played by women as entrepreneurs in the region
- description and analysis of the issue in countries at different stages of economic development and with different socio-economic and cultural environment
- a broad approach encompassing historical, political, sociological, economics and businesses-related aspects of female entrepreneurship
- a complex and contrasted portrait of female entrepreneurs, their motives to be an entrepreneur, their desires for risk-taking and self- satisfaction
- an explanation that while sharing similar ideals, expectations and willingness to achieving their objectives, there exist profound differences among but also within the different Asian countries in regard of female entrepreneurship characteristics
This detailed study of female entrepreneurship in Asia examines the high economic growth that is increasingly driven by market-oriented economic reforms favouring entrepreneurship. There is a higher awareness by women of their political and socio-economic rights and recognition by society at large of social legitimacy of women pursuing business activities in their own right. Female Entrepreneurship in East and South-East Asia assesses socio-cultural and economic factors influencing female entrepreneurship in Asia as well as the entrepreneurial process and the tools and challenges that accompany it
Key Topics Covered:
- Introduction
- The rising tide of entrepreneurship
- Historical and current socio-political and economic context of female entrepreneurship
- Evolution of the concept of female entrepreneurship and the reality of women-owned businesses
- The institutional environment of female entrepreneurship
- Women in the labor market
- Public policy supporting female entrepreneurship
- Results of the field survey
- Conclusions
Author:
Professor Philippe Debroux is a Professor of International Management at Soka University (Japan). He is also visiting Professor of International Management and Human Resource Management on a regular basis at Hanoi Economic University, Tsukuba University (Japan), Rennes University Center for Japanese Studies (France) and Brussels Solvay Business School MBA program.
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