{"title":"The Challenges Faced by Women Micro-entrepreneurs: Evidence from Urban India","authors":"Raju Majumdar, Ankur Mittal, Shikha Bhardwaj","doi":"10.1177/09722629231185464","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The primary purpose of the research is to identify the challenges faced by Indian urban women micro-entrepreneurs in their entrepreneurial journey. The challenges presented by the external environment as well as the deficiencies inherent in their skill sets are analysed to ascertain the most important barriers that continue to impede their growth. Findings indicate that limited funding and balancing responsibilities are the two major challenges faced by women entrepreneurs (WEs); the former being most important for micro-entrepreneurs engaged in manufacturing, while the latter poses the biggest challenge for those engaged in the services sector. Regarding skills, findings indicate that WEs appear to be least skilled in performing finance and information technology-related roles. To the extent that perceived skill gaps and challenges faced are closely related, the findings of this research present an alternative interpretation of the primacy of funding constraints faced by WEs.","PeriodicalId":44860,"journal":{"name":"Vision-The Journal of Business Perspective","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Vision-The Journal of Business Perspective","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09722629231185464","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The primary purpose of the research is to identify the challenges faced by Indian urban women micro-entrepreneurs in their entrepreneurial journey. The challenges presented by the external environment as well as the deficiencies inherent in their skill sets are analysed to ascertain the most important barriers that continue to impede their growth. Findings indicate that limited funding and balancing responsibilities are the two major challenges faced by women entrepreneurs (WEs); the former being most important for micro-entrepreneurs engaged in manufacturing, while the latter poses the biggest challenge for those engaged in the services sector. Regarding skills, findings indicate that WEs appear to be least skilled in performing finance and information technology-related roles. To the extent that perceived skill gaps and challenges faced are closely related, the findings of this research present an alternative interpretation of the primacy of funding constraints faced by WEs.
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Vision-The Journal of Business Perspective is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India published by SAGE Publications. This journal contains papers in all functional areas of management, including economic and business environment. The journal is premised on creating influence on the academic as well as corporate thinkers. Vision-The Journal of Business Perspective is published in March, June, September and December every year. Its targeted readers are researchers, academics involved in research, and corporates with excellent professional backgrounds from India and other parts of the globe. Its contents have been often used as supportive course materials by the academics and corporate professionals. The journal has been providing opportunity for discussion and exchange of ideas across the widest spectrum of scholarly opinions to promote theoretical, empirical and comparative research on problems confronting the business world. Most of the contributors to this journal range from the outstanding and the well published to the upcoming young academics and corporate functionaries. The journal publishes theoretical as well as applied research works.