Title
The role of the family environment in innovative female entrepreneurship in Latin America: cases from Colombia, Peru, and Argentina
Date Issued
13 December 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Abstract
In this chapter, we focus on understanding the distinct roles that the family environment has played in the dynamics of Innovative Female Entrepreneurship (IFE) in Latin America, using the lens of the family embeddedness perspective. The IFE is a new phenomenon which, to date, has been reported scantly in the literature. Through a study of contrasting cases in three Latin American countries, it was found that the IFE emerges in evolving cultural contexts, which affect the family environment by accentuating new values (equity, solidarity etc.) and the empowerment of women. In this context, the family environment and entrepreneurship generate dynamic pull-push circles. In the preliminary stages of entrepreneurship, it roots the women's identity-building processes and their orientation towards entrepreneurship; in the subsequent stages it provides mentoring and tangible and intangible resources (knowledge, networks) nourishing the continuous process of formation and exploitation of opportunities for value generation.
Start page
114
End page
153
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85160293574
ISBN
9781800375178
Resource of which it is part
Women, Family and Family Businesses Across Entrepreneurial Contexts
ISBN of the container
978-180037517-8
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Universidad ESAN