Institutional Theory and Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership: Evidence from 92 Countries

By Shumaila Y. Yousafzai, Saadat Saeed, Moreno Muffatto. 2015

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Building on research, we develop a multi‐level framework that draws on the notion of the contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship and institutional theory. We examine the mediating role of the vision for women's entrepreneurship (VWE) on the relationship between the regulatory, normative and cognitive pillars of institutional theory and women's entrepreneurial leadership (WEL) in 92 countries. Results suggest that the institutional pillars influence VWE. Regulatory institutions, entrepreneurial cognitions, and entrepreneurial norms have a direct and an indirect effect (through VWE) on WEL.

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Entrepreneurial practices in research-intensive and teaching-led universities (2016, background): “The experience of academics from previous institutional work is filtered and reflected on new institutional work, such as entrepreneurial activities, suggesting that cognitive frameworks shape entrepreneurial norms (Yousafzai et al. 2015).”
Institutional support and women’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy (2017, background): “Formal institutional support and entrepreneurial self-efficacy The legal framework is essential to entrepreneurship because it influences entrepreneurial cognitions, such as willingness, confidence and visions (Lim et al., 2010; Yousafzai et al., 2015).”