Gender perspectives of African SMEs: the role of formal and informal institutional contexts

Ogundana, OM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0121-7231, Simba, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0276-8211 and Umoru, U, 2023. Gender perspectives of African SMEs: the role of formal and informal institutional contexts. In: Hinson, RE, Odame, DNA, Twum, KK, Rambe, P, Igwe, PA and Rugara, DG, eds., The future of entrepreneurship in Africa: cross-sectoral perspectives post COVID-19. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032298474 (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

Women entrepreneurship is inextricably linked to context as it offers supports and hindrances to women entrepreneurs and their enterprises. This chapter examined the effectiveness and the interrelationships between formal and informal institutional contexts within the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) regions. The informal institutional contexts have a stronger impact on women entrepreneurship than formal institutions that are described as weak and ineffective. The formal and informal institutional contexts shape one another in influencing women’s entrepreneurship in the SSA region. The informal institutional contexts have a more significant influence on the formal institutional contexts which is mainly ineffective and oftentimes non-existent. Women entrepreneurs in the SSA region possess a reverse effect on the formal institutional contexts especially through their participation in policy developments and trade union activism. Women entrepreneurs and their enterprise maintain inconsequential influence on the informal institutions that are mainly exogenous forces. However, women entrepreneurs are still able to indirectly mitigate the adverse influence of the informal institutions through the formal institutional context (including policies). Theoretical and practical implications for women entrepreneurship research and policy development initiatives are offered.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Description:	Chapter 8
Creators:	Ogundana, O.M., Simba, A. and Umoru, U.
Publisher:	Routledge
Place of Publication:	Abingdon
Date:	22 August 2023
ISBN:	9781032298474
Identifiers:	Number Type 1777061 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	06 Jul 2023 15:26
Last Modified:	06 Jul 2023 15:26
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49335

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