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A Theoretical Research Framework

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An integrated framework is advanced that provides a lens for effective research on African female entrepreneurship and highlights its poverty alleviation and socio-economic development potential, while interrogating entrepreneurship from the unique perspective of women’s lived experiences. It combines Sen’s capability approach, social feminism and social enterprise. Social entrepreneurship permits a close examination of the poverty alleviation potential of female entrepreneurship, and social feminism allows women’s unique world view to be captured, while exploring the impact of gender on their entrepreneurship. The capability approach examines people’s diverse situations, and identifies capability gaps and ways of addressing them to attain fulfilled lives that people desire. It pays close attention to women, finding that improving their well-being has the ripple effect of better lives for their families and communities.

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Boateng, A. (2018). A Theoretical Research Framework. In: African Female Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65846-9_2

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