Womens entrepreneurship in global and local contexts The phenomenon of womens entrepreneurship has gained significant momentum across the globe. Written by leading scholars from a wide range of countries this book advances the understanding of womens entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the contexts in which they operate. It is the fifth in the series of books produced in partnership with the Diana International Research Network. In this book expert contributors explore female potential and how entrepreneurs make decisions within a multi layered gendered context. As a rare and current overview of womens entrepreneurship it presents evidence of the positive impact that achieving equality in gendered institutions would have how to facilitate meso institutions impact and how to foster entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial initiative at the individual level. A crucial discussion of how womens entrepreneurship could benefit from a more comprehensive concept of innovation or implementing entrepreneurial policies focused on women is also included. With its focus on advancing knowledge about gender issues within the business realm Womens Entrepreneurship in Global and Local Contexts will be of interest to researchers faculty and students as well as policy makers and practitioners 1. Introduction: womens entrepreneurship in global and local contexts Cristina Díaz García Candida G. Brush Elizabeth J. Gatewood and Friederike Welter Part I institutional factors explaining women entrepreneurship 2. The role of gendered institutional contexts in the rate and type of womens entrepreneurship across countries John Ruiz Arroyo John Fuentes and John Bojica 3. Business and occupational crowding: implications for female entrepreneurship development and success Ruta Aidis 4. Innovation and womens entrepreneurship (why) are women entrepreneurs less innovative Teita Bijedić Siegrun Brink Kerstin Ettl Silke Kriwoluzky Friederike Welter 5. Strategies and policies influencing entrepreneurial start up decisions: evidence from Tanzanian female entrepreneurs Dina Nziku Part II meso organsational structures and institutions influencing women entrepreneurs 6. The gendered contextualization of SME cooperation in urban East Africa Malin Tillmar 7. Management in small firms run by women: a case study of handicraft exporters Janina V. León 8. Supporting artisan communities through social entrepreneurship in Kenya: an exploration of Soko Alanna Ford and Sarah Cooper 9. Empowering women through social entrepreneurship with innovative business models: cases from Turkey Duygu Uygur Elif Bezal Kahraman and Gonca Gunay 10. Financing high growth women owned enterprises: evidence from the United States Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb Part III women entrepreneurship as embedded agency: entrepreneurial intention firm creation and management 11. The entrepreneurial potential of Spanish university women based on a psychosocial model José C. Sánchez García & Brizeida R. Hernández Sánchez 12. Entrepreneurial intention of young Lebanese students; an overview of a gender study Laurice Alexandre 13. An exploration of Icelandic marketing women entrepreneurs Guja Armansdottir Clare Brindley Carley Foster Daniel Wheatley and Christopher Pich 14. Women entrepreneurs and performance: evidences from Italy Michela Mari Sara Pogessi and Luisa De Vita.