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Women Entrepreneurs in Ghana

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Women Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Researching into female entrepreneurship is important because it enhances our understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurship and factors comprising family influences, labour market structures, female entrepreneurial behaviour, job creation, and human capital development. This chapter presents a historical overview of Ghanaian women’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, shaped by Ghana’s macro-economic, social, and political-legal institutional environments. The characteristics of these female entrepreneurs and their success factors in entrepreneurship are also discussed. Secondary data derived from the entrepreneurship literature was mostly used in this chapter. Hence, this chapter makes a contribution to the emerging literature on women’s entrepreneurship by restricting its scope to women’s entrepreneurship in the context of Ghana.

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  1. Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana

    Jacqueline Zakpaa

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  2. Dalhousie University and Sorbonne Business School, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Léo-Paul Dana

  3. School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland, Glasgow, UK

    Dina Modestus Nziku

  4. Faculty of Business and Economics, South East European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia

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Zakpaa, J. (2022). Women Entrepreneurs in Ghana. In: Dabić, M., Dana, LP., Nziku, D.M., Ramadani, V. (eds) Women Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98966-8_4

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