Entrepreneurial Leadership and Gender: Exploring Theory and Practice in Global Contexts

Abstract

This article reflects on extant scholarship on entrepreneurial leadership and gender, as published in both the ournal of mall usiness anagement and elsewhere. As such, it lays the foundation for the special issue, and contributes to current knowledge in the field. Our selected papers—summarized and critiqued in this article—collectively offer a contemporary view of women's entrepreneurial leadership at the global level that should usefully contribute to extending scholarly debates. In this regard, we highlight the diversity and complexity of women's entrepreneurial leadership, and demonstrate that it is both economically and contextually embedded, worthy of further scholarly attention.

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Notes on contributors

Colette Henry

Colette Henry is adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship at the UiT‐The Arctic University of Norway, School of Business and Economics.

Lene Foss

Lene Foss is professor of Entrepreneurship at the UiT‐The Arctic University of Norway, School of Business and Economics.

Alain Fayolle

Alain Fayolle is professor of Entrepreneurship and director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre at the EMLYON Business School.

Elizabeth Walker

Elizabeth Walker is senior honorary research fellow at the University of Western Australia Business School.

Susan Duffy

Susan Duffy is executive director at the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership, Babson College.