Indian Women as Entrepreneurs An Exploration of Self-Identity /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kumar, Payal (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Θέματα: Business.; Small business.; Globalization.; Markets.; Trade.; Commerce.; Industrial sociology.; Business and Management.; Small Business.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Sociology of Work.

This unique edited collection explores the ways in which entrepreneurship acts to shape self-identity for Indian women and validate their identities in a patriarchal society. Differing from existing literature which focuses on the antecedents of entrepreneurship for women and their performing outcom...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Foreword by Dr Bruce Hiebert
• PART ONE: THE INDIAN NARRATIVE
• Chapter 1 Interplay between individual and shared identities of woman entrepreneurs in Manipur (Bisoya Loitongbam and Priyatam Anurag)
• Chapter 2 the complex hues of entrepreneurial identity amongst women owning accounting firms (Sujana Adapa and Alison Sheridan)
• Chapter 3 Intrinsic rewards of the transition from home-maker to entrepreneur (Meenakshi P.)
• Chapter 4 Do women turn to entrepreneurship to maintain a better work-life balance? (Bala Subramanian R. and Sachin Kumar)
• Chapter 5 Entrepreneurship among rural Indian women: empowerment through enterprise (Ambika Prasad)
• Chapter 6 Leadership style of Indian women in the context of the GLOBE cultural framework (Louise Kelly)
• PART TWO: THE DIASPORA NARRATIVE
• Chapter 7 Understanding the gendered identity role of skilled female entrepreneurs amongst the Indian diaspora in Europe (Neha Chatwani)
• Chapter 8 The gender, racio-ethnic and professional identity work of an Indian woman entrepreneur in South Africa (Nasima M. H. Carrim)
• PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
• Chapter 9 Case Study 1: Entrepreneurship as a vehicle to prove my worth (Prathibha Sastry)
• Chapter 10 Case Study 2: How working in a collective boosts self-esteem and choice-making propensity in women (Simran Anand)
• Chapter 11 Case Study 3: It’s my business: Personal evolution and assertion of identity (Sonavi Desai).