Indian women as entrepreneurs : an exploration of self identity /: an exploration of self identity. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Payal Kumar, editor.
• Editors: Kumar, Payal
• Contents: Preface -- Foreword by Dr Bruce Hiebert -- PART ONE: THE INDIAN NARRATIVE -- Chapter 1 Interplay between individual and shared identities of woman entrepreneurs in Manipur (Bisoya Loitongbam and Priyatam Anurag) -- Chapter 2 the complex hues of entrepreneurial identity amongst women owning accounting firms (Sujana Adapa and Alison Sheridan) -- Chapter 3 Intrinsic rewards of the transition from home-maker to entrepreneur (Meenakshi P.) -- Chapter 4 Do women turn to entrepreneurship to maintain a better work-life balance? (Bala Subramanian R. and Sachin Kumar) -- Chapter 5 Entrepreneurship among rural Indian women: empowerment through enterprise (Ambika Prasad) -- Chapter 6 Leadership style of Indian women in the context of the GLOBE cultural framework (Louise Kelly) -- PART TWO: THE DIASPORA NARRATIVE -- Chapter 7 Understanding the gendered identity role of skilled female entrepreneurs amongst the Indian diaspora in Europe (Neha Chatwani) -- Chapter 8 The gender, racio-ethnic and professional identity work of an Indian woman entrepreneur in South Africa (Nasima M.H. Carrim) -- PART THREE: CASE STUDIES -- Chapter 9 Case Study 1: Entrepreneurship as a vehicle to prove my worth (Prathibha Sastry) -- Chapter 10 Case Study 2: How working in a collective boosts self-esteem and choice-making propensity in women (Simran Anand) -- Chapter 11 Case Study 3: It's my business: Personal evolution and assertion of identity (Sonavi Desai).
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.40954; Business; Businesswomen -- India -- Social conditions; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Business & Economics -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Distributive industries; Market research; Sociology: work & labour; Management science; Small business; Trade; Globalization; Industrial sociology; Business & Economics -- Small Business; Small businesses & self-employed; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137602596; 1137602597
• Related ISBNs: 9781137602589
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 9, 2016).
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