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Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals

An Opportunity Nexus

  • 1 Edición - 24 de noviembre de 2025
  • Última edición
  • Editores: Léo-Paul Dana, Meghna Chhabra
  • Idioma: Inglés

Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Opportunity Nexus is a comprehensive collection of research articles and case studies exploring the role of wom… Leer más

Descripción

Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Opportunity Nexus is a comprehensive collection of research articles and case studies exploring the role of women-owned businesses in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Written by global experts, this book delves into theoretical and empirical research that underscores the importance of female entrepreneurship in promoting sustainable development. The content spans various contexts, providing a rich understanding of how sustainability is perceived and implemented in different settings.

The book addresses critical topics such as gender differences in entrepreneurship, the influence of the female workforce on sustainability, and the significance of female-led intrapreneurship within corporate sustainability strategies. It serves as an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in sustainable entrepreneurship, offering practical guidance to support women in creating sustainable enterprises that contribute to achieving the SDGs.

Puntos claves

  • Presents research related to the UN SDGs, particularly with a specific, actionable connection to the challenges and opportunities of women’s entrepreneurial community in practice
  • Focuses on ways and means for promoting global initiatives to foster and support women’s entrepreneurship to advance innovation, social development, and gender equality
  • Includes a section of case studies to highlight stories of women advancing sustainable development goals around the world

De interès para

Academicians and researchers working in the field of sustainability and entrepreneurship, aspiring and existing entrepreneurs, students with entrepreneurial potential and aspirations, policymakers, entrepreneurship/women entrepreneurship/sustainable entrepreneurship courses

Índice

1. Women entrepreneurship and its impact on the SDG objectives: The role of digitalization, innovation, governance, and economic environment

2. Women's entrepreneurship in achieving sustainable development: Exploring the research trajectories

3. Empowering women through culture, creativity, and entrepreneurship for the Sustainable Development Goals

4. Rashi's Elixir: Harmonizing tradition and sustainability in skin and hair care

5. Empowering women in tech: Policy pathways for inclusive European entrepreneurship

6. InnovateHERs: Purpose-driven, entrepreneurial women drive progress towards sustainable development goals

7. Transformative entrepreneurship: The role of female entrepreneurs in driving sustainability in small enterprises

8. Purpose over profit—A study of women-led sustainable business practices and programs

9. Women’s health entrepreneurship for net-zero energy through Metaverse and Digital Twin

10. Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Has the bargaining power of argan oil been beneficial for Amazigh women in Morocco?

11. Driving internal factors of women's entrepreneurship towards sustainability upon reviewing gender and social feminism theories

12. SHGs in India: Catalysts for entrepreneurship, gender equality, and sustainable development through CLFs: A multi-theoretical perspective

13. Empowering change: Indian women entrepreneurs pioneering sustainable futures in tourism

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 5 de diciembre de 2025
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los editores

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Léo-Paul Dana

Léo-Paul Dana is Professor at ICD Business School, Groupe IGS, Paris, France, and at Dalhousie University. He is also Visiting Professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology and affiliated with Sorbonne Business School. A graduate of McGill University and HEC-Montreal, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Professor at INSEAD. He has published extensively in a variety of journals, including Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice; International Business Review; International Small Business Journal; Journal of Business Research; Journal of Small Business Management; Journal of World Business; Small Business Economics; and Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor; LUT School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland & Ecole de commerce Paris - ICD Business School Groupe IGS, Paris France, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Meghna Chhabra

Dr. Meghna Chhabra is an academician with more than 15 years of teaching and corporate experience across institutions in India. She was educated in “Design Thinking” from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Her research interests include Women’s Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education. Her other areas of interest include Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ventures and Sustainable Business Models. She is an Associate Editor at Journal of Enterprising Communities: People & Places and an editorial board member of the journal International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation and on the review board of many top-tier management journals. She is also on the editorial board of two books published by World Scientific. Dr. Meghna has more than forty publications in international journals, including the Journal of Cleaner Production, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Education and Training, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Business and Society Review, and Journal of Tourism Cities.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Delhi School of Business, New Delhi, India

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