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Deconstructing the Myth: African Women Entrepreneurs’ Access to Resources

In: The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship

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  • Kassa Woldesenbet Beta

    (De Montfort University)

  • Natasha Katuta Mwila

    (De Montfort University)

  • Olapeju Ogunmokun

    (De Montfort University)

Abstract

Women’s entrepreneurship in Africa has seen an impressive leap amidst coping with multifaceted challenges at individual, meso and macro levels. Whilst various motives can drive women entrepreneurship in an African context, less is known about the extent to which women entrepreneurs are able to access and use enterprising resources. To address this gap, this chapter conducted a systematic literature review of published articles from the period 1990 to 2020 in prominent data bases such as ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Google Scholar and ProQuest. The review found that, overall, studies on women’s access to, and use of, resources have been a very recent phenomenon which has received extremely limited attention by scholars, is theoretically fragmented, methodologically quantitative and unable to develop cumulative knowledge on this area. The bias towards cause-effect and gender differences explaining the mainstreaming of women entrepreneurship ‘inadvertently’ led to not only to narrow understanding and theoretical underdevelopment of the field but also to focus on assumed, innate sex differences that perpetuate the gender gaps.

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  • Kassa Woldesenbet Beta & Natasha Katuta Mwila & Olapeju Ogunmokun, 2022. "Deconstructing the Myth: African Women Entrepreneurs’ Access to Resources," Springer Books, in: Oluwaseun Kolade & David Rae & Demola Obembe & Kassa Woldesenbet Beta (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship, chapter 0, pages 517-542, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-75894-3_21
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75894-3_21
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