Pathological analysis of the concept of women entrepreneurship, transition to the concept of women value creation and policy indications

Mansouri, Samaneh; Peyghami, Adel; Ghasemi, Asemeh

Pathological analysis of the concept of women entrepreneurship, transition to the concept of women value creation and policy indications

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Social Science, Azad Islamic University, Tehran, I.R.Iran

² imam sadiq university

³ Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran

Abstract

By reviewing the literature and examining the obstacles and harms faced by women entrepreneurship in this field, it becomes clear that the definitions provided by this concept do not give any distinct identity to women entrepreneurship and practically this ontological shortcoming is the basis for The main harms and obstacles have caused the entry and growth of women in this field. The main question is whether by redefining the concept of entrepreneurship and replacing it with the concept of value creation, the shortcomings in this field can be reduced? In order to examine the necessary capacities to create a new personality in the field of women entrepreneurship, a qualitative study and purposeful and semi-structured interviews of a sample of 19 people from the statistical community of researchers, managers and active policymakers in this field and Successful women entrepreneurs. The presented answers were analyzed by thematic analysis method. Complementarity of family and social roles, role-playing appropriate to the spirits of women, the need to provide a native model, are some of the 32 main axes identified in this study. This means that the intersection of transgender traits of entrepreneurship with gender roles of women in the objective and practical field, gives a new ontological nature and identity to the category of women's interpersonalism, and therefore the concept of value creation of women as a new nature in their interpersonalism and a new equivalent in language. Persian is introduced to express this kind of effective women's activism and has certain political indications

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