理解女企业家赋权的维度:对小额信贷文献和研究途径的系统回顾

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Nzanzu Y'Ise Kivalya, Tristan Caballero-Montes
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摘要

本文件的目的是系统地概述小额信贷政策和战略设计以及旨在赋予或评估赋予某一类妇女即女企业家权力的影响研究中需要包含或考虑的各方面。最后,提出了今后研究的方向。设计/方法/方法为了达到目的,本文采用了系统回顾的方法。所采用的方法遵循由系统评价和元分析首选报告项目(PRISMA)制定的社会和经济干预措施系统评价指南。更具体地说,作者研究了来自6个数据库的87篇实证论文,这些论文调查了小额信贷机构对女企业家赋权的影响。总体而言,研究结果表明,赋予女企业家权力的各个方面是由规范性、认知性和规范性的制度逻辑形成和制约的。此外,系统综述提出了关键的研究途径,并呼吁在地理覆盖范围、评估的小额信贷服务/产品和应用的方法设计方面进行更具包容性的实证研究。研究局限/影响本审查的结果在小额供资和赋予妇女企业家权力领域提供了明确的理论贡献和有益的实际影响。一方面,该研究为学者们提供了未来研究的关键途径,可能在理论、背景和方法上带来新的见解。另一方面,本研究扩展了小额信贷从业人员对女性创业领域中妇女赋权概念的理解。这可能有助于设计适当的小额供资战略和政策,使妇女企业家能够全面获得权力。原创性/价值本论文有助于围绕“妇女赋权”这一概念的多维性进行辩论。所述概念的多维性在现有文献中得到了很好的确立。然而,据作者所知,没有一项研究对某一类妇女,即女企业家的赋权方面进行概念性分析。与大多数假设所有女性都面临相同挑战的研究不同,这篇论文基于不同的假设,对这一主题提出了新的见解。本文以制度理论为基础,将其应用于女性创业的具体案例。
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Understanding the dimensions of women entrepreneurs’ empowerment: a systematic review of the microfinance literature and avenues for research

Purpose

The purpose of the present paper is to provide a systematic overview of dimensions that need to be enfolded or considered in microfinance policies and strategies designs as well as impact studies aiming to empower or assess the empowerment of a specific category of women, namely women entrepreneurs. Afterward, the study aims to suggest some directions for future studies.

Design/methodology/approach

To meet its purpose, the paper applies the systematic review approach. The applied methodology follows guidelines for systematic reviews of social and economic interventions as set out by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). More specifically, the authors examine 87 empirical papers from 6 databases investigating the impact of microfinance institutions on the empowerment of women entrepreneurs.

Findings

Overall, findings of the study suggest that dimensions of the empowerment of women entrepreneurs are formed and conditioned by normative, cognitive and regulative institutional logics. Additionally, the systematic review suggests key research avenues and calls for more inclusive empirical studies in terms of geographical coverage, microfinance services/products assessed and method designs applied.

Research limitations/implications

Findings of the current review provide clear theoretical contribution and useful practical implications in the field of microfinance and the empowerment of women entrepreneurs. On the one hand, the study suggests to scholars key avenues for future studies likely to bring new insights in terms of theory, context and methods. On the other hand, this study extents the understanding of microfinance practitioners on the concept of women empowerment as the field of female entrepreneurship is concerned. This implication is likely to enable the design of appropriate microfinance strategies and policies, allowing women entrepreneurs to achieve an overall empowerment.

Originality/value

The present paper contributes to the debate around the multidimensionality of the concept, “women empowerment.” The multidimensional nature of the addressed concept is well established in the existing literature. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no study has provided a conceptual analysis of empowerment dimensions of a particular category of women, namely women entrepreneurs. Unlike most of the studies assuming that all women face identical challenges, the present paper brings new insights on the topic as it is built on a different assumption. The paper takes ground from the institutional theory and applies it to the specific case of female entrepreneurship.

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CiteScore
7.40
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期刊介绍: Launched in 2009, the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (IJGE) aims to facilitate the natural evolution of the field of gender and entrepreneurship by drawing together the very best research contributions from around the world. The journal seeks to: -Provide a dedicated publication outlet for high calibre, international research of interest to scholars, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the field of gender and entrepreneurship -Offer a unique perspective on the practice of gender and entrepreneurship by including sections dedicated to practitioner and policy content -Support a more consistent global approach to the presentation of research in the field -Platform the work of dynamic young researchers and those who are in a position to offer new perspectives on this particular research area -Enable those active in the area as researchers, educators, trainers, practitioners, support personnel and policy makers to keep up to date with the field on an international level. The coverage of the journal includes, but is not limited to: Entrepreneurship, Female/Women’s entrepreneurship , Business, Management, Strategy, Gender, Economics, Internationalization, Marketing.
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