Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Asian Region

This book explores women’s entrepreneurship in Asia and analyses the experiences of women entrepreneurs through institutional logics. Covering nine different countries throughout Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Brunei, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, this book highlights a range of success stories, the supports, challenges, policy and practical implications to improve women’s particiaption in entrepreneurship.

Women in some of the Asian countries are subjected to cultural norms and beliefs systems which regard women as inferior. This book suggests actions by governments, universities, organizations and women themselves to help improve the position of women as entrepreneurs in Asia and explains how these actions are in line with UN’s Sustainability Development Goal (SDG) of gender equality. The book also considers how women may contribute to developing businesses that focus on addressing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability.

This book is an essential resource for women entrepreneurs, academics researching these areas, and student’s studying women’s entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship more generally. Women who are keen to start their own businesses and policy makers seeking to support the establishment of women led business in the Asian region will also find this useful.