West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Schuerkens, Ulrike

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

More African women than men become entrepreneurs, with women often balancing time caring for their households with small enterprises such as setting up shops in front of their homes, renting market stalls, or setting up hairstyling businesses.

This book considers these micro-level instances of entrepreneurship, as well as cases of more established high-status entrepreneurs, to build a picture of women entrepreneurs in West African societies, and their wider role in socio-economic development. Small and medium enterprises are seen as agents of change in the global south, vital for job creation and poverty reduction, but women often face barriers which hinder their entrepreneurial success, such as lack of funding, useful networks, or inhibitive gender stereotypes. This book highlights cases of gender and economic success, to demonstrate the significant potential of the female economy to generate progress and change.

This book will be an important read for students and researchers of entrepreneurship, business, gender, development, and economic sociology in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040310991
• Artikelnr.: 73306908

Autorenporträt

Ulrike Schuerkens studied at the Universities of Cologne (Germany) and Rennes (France). She has doctorates in both sociology, and social anthropology and ethnology, from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She received the diploma Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the University Paris V - René Descartes. Currently, she is a professor of sociology at the University Rennes 2, France. She taught in the master's and PhD programmes of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. She also taught as a lecturer at the University Lille 3 (France) and Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany). She was a visiting professor at the Universities Paris 1 and Paris V, the University of Cologne (Germany), Rouen Business School, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal), and others. Ulrike Schuerkens has served for many years in different functions as a member of the board of the Research Committee on Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, RC 09 of the International Sociological Association. She is on the editorial board of several international journals. She has published extensively on globalisation, glocalisation, socio-economic development, social change, transnational migrations, multiculturalism, and colonialism. Her latest monographs are Entreprises, entrepreneurs et travail au Sénégal, Pour une sociologie du management en Afrique et dans le monde arabe, Social Changes in a Global World, Soziale Transformationen und Entwicklung(en) in einer globalisierten Welt, Global Management, Local Resistances (ed., Routledge, 2014), The Socio-economic Outcomes of the Global Financial Crisis (ed., Routledge, 2012), Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality (ed., Routledge, 2010), Globalization and Transformations of Local Socio-Economic Practices (ed., Routledge, 2008), Transnational Migrations and Social Transformations, Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations, Changement social sous régime colonial: Du Togo allemand aux Togo et Ghana indépendants, Transformationsprozesse in der Elfenbeinkueste und in Ghana.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction: West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World
Introduction 1: West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World 2:
Wealth Making in Marriage: Simbiat Abiola of Southwestern Nigeria,
1938-1992 Part 2: Processes Linked to the Creation of Women Enterprises 3:
Women's Home-Based Entrepreneurship in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Partnership
Governance and Succession Planning 4: Women's "Invisible" Path to
Empowerment in Cameroon: The Case of Digital Companies 5: Analysis of the
Motivations and Constraints of Pre-Existing Women's Groups in the Process
of Creating a Collective Enterprise: The Case of the Creation of a
Cooperative by a Women's Group in the West Region of Cameroon 6: The Auchan
Brand in Senegal: A Source of Supply for Women Stallholders in Mbour - A
Link to Working-Class Consumers Part 3: Women Entrepreneurs and their
Enterprises 7: Women Entrepreneurs in Senegal and the Wider Geographical
Context of Africa and Europe 8: New Figures in Women's Entrepreneurship in
Sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar Women Entrepreneurs Between the Global and the
Local in Digitalisation 9: Relational Biographies of Women Social
Entrepreneurs in Senegal 10: Social Entrepreneurship in Dakar: Reasons for
the Disaffiliation of Members of the Association of Women Seamstresses of
the Marché Colobane (A.F.C.) Part 4: Women Entrepreneurs and New Challenges
11: Participatory Financing in Senegal and its Role in Financing Female
Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Case Study 12: Factors in the Success and
Failure of Public Policies to Promote Female Entrepreneurship in Cameroon
13: Women Entrepreneurs in Côte d'Ivoire's Philanthropic Landscape 14:
Business Sustainability Adoption by Ghanaian Women Entrepreneurs Part 5:
Concluding Remarks and Perspectives 15: Concluding Remarks and
Perspectives.