Indian Women as Entrepreneurs An Exploration of Self-Identity

Indian Women as Entrepreneurs An Exploration of Self-Identity / edited by Payal Kumar.

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kumar, Payal (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Small business.
Trade.
Business.
Commerce.
Globalization.
Markets.
Industrial sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 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).

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