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Chapter 2 How women entrepreneurs emerge from family firms: The case of Colombia

  • Luz Elena Orozco-Collazos
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De Gruyter Handbook of Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies
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Abstract

This chapter aims to understand how women learn to become entrepreneurs within family firms in Colombia, an emerging economy that reflects several characteristics of the Latin American context. Considering the diversity of women’s entrepreneurial actions in family firms reported in previous studies, this study builds on the cases of six women who learned to become entrepreneurs within their family firms. The findings highlight the importance of guidance or tutorage as the primary mechanism through which women learn to behave entrepreneurially. These behaviours are aligned with the entrepreneurial practices of their tutors or guides. The guidance is a process of tacit knowledge transfer, which is permeated by the guide’s gender meanings and entrepreneurial behaviours as well as the state of development of the family firm. This chapter also extends existing research to the context of emerging countries by showing that family firms help to balance the unfavourable conditions of the macro environment for women entrepreneurs. The study further opens multiple avenues for research to explore the processes surrounding women’s entrepreneurship at the micro level and family firms as sources of entrepreneurial learning.

Abstract

This chapter aims to understand how women learn to become entrepreneurs within family firms in Colombia, an emerging economy that reflects several characteristics of the Latin American context. Considering the diversity of women’s entrepreneurial actions in family firms reported in previous studies, this study builds on the cases of six women who learned to become entrepreneurs within their family firms. The findings highlight the importance of guidance or tutorage as the primary mechanism through which women learn to behave entrepreneurially. These behaviours are aligned with the entrepreneurial practices of their tutors or guides. The guidance is a process of tacit knowledge transfer, which is permeated by the guide’s gender meanings and entrepreneurial behaviours as well as the state of development of the family firm. This chapter also extends existing research to the context of emerging countries by showing that family firms help to balance the unfavourable conditions of the macro environment for women entrepreneurs. The study further opens multiple avenues for research to explore the processes surrounding women’s entrepreneurship at the micro level and family firms as sources of entrepreneurial learning.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. List of contributors XI
  4. Foreword XIX
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Section 1: Central and South America
  7. Chapter 1 Financial, human, and social capital – the interplay of resources among women entrepreneurs in Costa Rica 17
  8. Chapter 2 How women entrepreneurs emerge from family firms: The case of Colombia 35
  9. Chapter 3 Inclusive internationalisation as an emerging phenomenon of female entrepreneurship in three Latin American countries 65
  10. Chapter 4 The role of junior enterprises in the promotion of women’s entrepreneurial intentions: A comparison between Brazil and Portugal 121
  11. Section 2: Middle and far east
  12. Chapter 5 Female business angels in emerging economies: Funding family-related entrepreneurs 141
  13. Chapter 6 Women entrepreneurs within family spaces: A spatial perspective from a patriarchal context 165
  14. Chapter 7 An investigation into the influence of confidence, knowledge, and perseverance in supporting female entrepreneurs across emerging markets in India 187
  15. Chapter 8 The invisibility of Vietnamese women in the aquaculture value chain 227
  16. Section 3: Africa
  17. Chapter 9 Women’s enterprising in Africa: A systematic literature review 245
  18. Chapter 10 Coopetition as a strategy for value co-creation in women-owned start-ups in South Africa 273
  19. Chapter 11 Workaround practices within gender-biased entrepreneurship ecosystems – evidence from female entrepreneurs in the East African coffee sector 299
  20. Chapter 12 Agri-businesswomen in Kenya: Personal networks as gendered spaces in women’s entrepreneurship 319
  21. Section 4: Eastern Europe
  22. Chapter 13 Effectual-Causal reasonings inside innovative Belarusian SMEs: A gendered view 351
  23. Chapter 14 Women entrepreneurs: From potential to intention. The role of motivations and culture in emerging economies 369
  24. Postscript: Where do we go from here? 393
  25. Index 395
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747669-003

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. List of contributors XI
  4. Foreword XIX
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Section 1: Central and South America
  7. Chapter 1 Financial, human, and social capital – the interplay of resources among women entrepreneurs in Costa Rica 17
  8. Chapter 2 How women entrepreneurs emerge from family firms: The case of Colombia 35
  9. Chapter 3 Inclusive internationalisation as an emerging phenomenon of female entrepreneurship in three Latin American countries 65
  10. Chapter 4 The role of junior enterprises in the promotion of women’s entrepreneurial intentions: A comparison between Brazil and Portugal 121
  11. Section 2: Middle and far east
  12. Chapter 5 Female business angels in emerging economies: Funding family-related entrepreneurs 141
  13. Chapter 6 Women entrepreneurs within family spaces: A spatial perspective from a patriarchal context 165
  14. Chapter 7 An investigation into the influence of confidence, knowledge, and perseverance in supporting female entrepreneurs across emerging markets in India 187
  15. Chapter 8 The invisibility of Vietnamese women in the aquaculture value chain 227
  16. Section 3: Africa
  17. Chapter 9 Women’s enterprising in Africa: A systematic literature review 245
  18. Chapter 10 Coopetition as a strategy for value co-creation in women-owned start-ups in South Africa 273
  19. Chapter 11 Workaround practices within gender-biased entrepreneurship ecosystems – evidence from female entrepreneurs in the East African coffee sector 299
  20. Chapter 12 Agri-businesswomen in Kenya: Personal networks as gendered spaces in women’s entrepreneurship 319
  21. Section 4: Eastern Europe
  22. Chapter 13 Effectual-Causal reasonings inside innovative Belarusian SMEs: A gendered view 351
  23. Chapter 14 Women entrepreneurs: From potential to intention. The role of motivations and culture in emerging economies 369
  24. Postscript: Where do we go from here? 393
  25. Index 395
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