Understanding Women's Entrepreneurship in a Gendered Context

Shumaila Yousafzai is Associate Professor at Cardiff University, UK. Her research focuses on the contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship, institutional theory and entrepreneurial orientation. She has published in various international journals and has co-edited a special issue on Women's entrepreneurship for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. Alain Fayolle is Professor of Entrepreneurship, the founder and director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre at EM Lyon Business School, France. Alain published thirty-five books and over one hundred and half articles. In 2013, Alain Fayolle got the 2013 European Entrepreneurship Education Award and has been elected Chair of the AOM Entrepreneurship Division for the 2016-2017 academic year. In 2015, he has been awarded Wilford L. White Fellow by ICSB.Saadat Saeed is Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Durham University Business School, Durham University, UK. His past research efforts have included the global study of supportive institutions and women's entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in adverse conditions, corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in multi-county context. Colette Henry, FRSA, is Head of School of Business & Humanities at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland, and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Colette holds the Diana International Trailblazer award for female entrepreneurship, and the Sten K Johnson European Entrepreneurship Education Award. Adam Lindgreen is Professor of Marketing at Copenhagen Business School and Head of the Department of Marketing. He has published in California Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Product and Innovation Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of World Business.