Women entrepreneurs and the myth of 'underperformance' : a new look at women's entrepreneurship research / edited by Shumaila Yousafzai, Alain Fayolle, Adam Lindgreen, Colette Henry, Saadat Saeed, Shandana Sheikh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Performance, success and value in entrepreneurship: a women's perspective. Redefining success beyond economic growth and wealth generation: the case of Ethiopia / Atsede T. Hailemariam and Brigitte Kroon -- Value creation through women's entrepreneurship / Shandana Sheiikh, Shumaila Yousafzai, Federica Sist, Aybeniz Akdeniz AR and Saadat Saeed -- Stepping into power: women leaders and their journey of self-redefinition / Milka Milliance -- Part 2: Challenging the underperformance hypothesis and acknowledging the constrained performance of women entrepreneurs. Hitting the tip: is there a glass ceiling for high-growth women entrepreneurs? / Ruta Aidis -- Indigenous entrepreneurship: Maori female entrepreneurs in the tourism industry and constraints to their success / Alina Zapalska and Dallas Brozik -- Women entrepreneurs in South Africa: maintaining a balance between culture, personal life, and business / Bridget Irene -- HO w vague entrepreneurial identities of Swedish women entrepreneurs are performed by government financiers / Aija Voitkane, Jeaneth Johansson, Malin Malmstrom and Joakim Wincent -- Socially constructed masculine domination: officials' perception of female entrepreneurs in Kerala, India / Roshni Narendran -- Part 3: Overcoming constrained performance: facilitating women entrepreneurs. Exploring alternative gendered social structures within entrepreneurship education: notes from a women's -only enterprise programme in the United Kingdom / Monique Boddington and Shima Barakat -- Bridging the entrepreneurial gender gap through social protection among women small-scale traders in Kenya / Anne Kamau, Paul Kamau, Daniel Muia, Harun Baiya and Jane Ndung'u -- Challenges to the formalization of Palestinian female-owned home-based businesses / Grace Khoury, Wojdan Farraj and Suhail Sultan -- The influence of gender on social orientation and family-friendly policies in community-based enterprises in Brazil / Luisa Delgado-Marquez, Rachida Justo and Julio O. De Castro -- Part 4: Moving forward. Gender and business performance: the role of entrepreneurial segregation / Natalie Sappleton -- Still bringing up the rear: why women will always be 'Other' in entrepreneurship's masculine instrumental discourse / Joan Lockyer, Cherisse Hoyte and Sunita Dewitt.