Female Entrepreneurship in East and South-East Asia
Opportunities and Challenges

Philippe Debroux (Author)

9780081014547, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 19 August 2016

260 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.37 kg

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. This book assesses socio-cultural and economic factors influencing female entrepreneurship in Asia as well as the process and the tools and challenges that accompany it.

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 labour market
Public policy supporting female entrepreneurship
Results of the field survey
Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Entrepreneurship [KJH], Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]