Embeddedness in context: understanding gender in a female entrepreneurship network
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In this article, the authors argue that through a process of embeddedness in context, a female entrepreneurship network is able to challenge gender structures and investigate how a female entrepreneur network can be used to support women's entrepreneurship.Abstract:
In this paper I argue that through a process of embeddedness in context, a female entrepreneurship network is able to challenge gender structures. I investigate how a female entrepreneurship networ...read more
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