Why Hurry? The Slow Process of High Growth in Women-Owned Businesses in a Resource-Scarce Context

Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh and Kimbu, Albert Nsom (2019). Why Hurry? The Slow Process of High Growth in Women-Owned Businesses in a Resource-Scarce Context. Journal of Small Business Management, 57(1) pp. 40–58.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12493

Abstract

This article critically uncovers how embeddedness within a resource-scarce context influences high-growth women’s entrepreneurship. Research suggests that though highly embedded women entrepreneurs can easily access resources and attain legitimacy, resulting in high-growth businesses, they can also become locked into existing systems that constrain their growth development paths. Using 16 qualitative cases developed in Cameroon, we unpack and resolve this paradox by analyzing how entrepreneurial path creation by women entrepreneurs enables the realization of growth aspirations. Implications for initiatives to support high-growth women’s entrepreneurship in resource-scarce contexts are critically examined.

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• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1540-627X
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Small Research Grants	Not Set	Academy/Leverhulme Trust

• Keywords
• Embeddedness; Women Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial path-creation; Path-dependency and lock-in; Women empowerment
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business > Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise
  Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business
  Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
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• © 2018 The Authors
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• Michael Ngoasong