http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13201 2026-05-15T14:22:31Z 2026-05-15T14:22:31Z Malhotra, Kanika Poddar, Varsha Marathe, Gaurav Manohar http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13217 2022-03-09T16:47:04Z 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z

Entrepreneurs in Making: A Study of Tribal Women's Lived Realities and Past Experiences Malhotra, Kanika; Poddar, Varsha; Marathe, Gaurav Manohar An encounter with the scheme of Van Dhan Yojana piqued the authors’ interest in learning more about the factors that contribute towards the development of entrepreneurship competencies among the tribal women. Pradhan Mantri Van Dhan Yojana is a Government of India project that aims to create alternate livelihood for tribal population by developing community enterprises and transforming forest gatherers into entrepreneurs. We conducted a qualitative study amongst tribal women to evaluate entrepreneurial competencies among them as a result of their past experiences, personal and professional. Our findings indicate that past experiences of these women largely correspond to conceptual and relationship competencies, one of the four categories listed by Mitchelmore and Rowley (2013), while showing traces of other competency categories. Further, we argue that amongst the tribal women establishing community enterprises, Mitchelmore and Rowley’s (2013) conceptual and relational competencies act as threshold or baseline competencies (Bird, 1995). Other competencies are developed during training and the course of enterprise operation and growth. International Conference on ‘Empowering Women Entrepreneurs from the Grassroots to Global’ - February 24-25, 2022

2022-02-24T00:00:00Z Sunita Jhunjhunwala, Shital http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13216 2022-03-09T16:43:30Z 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z

Women on Top Leadership Positions in India Sunita; Jhunjhunwala, Shital “Think leader, think male” ,“Career is fundamentally a male thing”, “Women are not effective leaders” and many more. We frequently confront these notions in the society and workplaces. These gender specific preconceptions and attitudes are developed among women and men due to the socialisation process in the early stages of their life shaping their personalities, behaviours, and decisions. Society and family members play a significant role in the socialisation process. Two types of perceptions are the consequences of socialisation process, one is how men perceive about women and second is women’s own perceptions about themselves. Society expects men to play the role of “bread winner” and being tough and dominant whereas expects women to play the role of “care provider” or “home maker” and being soft and affectionate. Even if in some families females are taught that they are equal to their male counterparts and do whatever they want in life, later on they feel dissatisfied as they face discrimination while they interact with the society or join workforce of any organisation. Gender specific attitudes and preconceptions are deep rooted among the women and men in such a way that even women have accepted this dominant position of males in the society and it is very tough to change this social attitude. Women feel guilty if they give less time to the husband, elders or children. International Conference on ‘Empowering Women Entrepreneurs from the Grassroots to Global’ - February 24-25, 2022

2022-02-24T00:00:00Z Mitra, Remi Purohit, Rajen Sharma, Mahendra http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13215 2022-03-09T16:38:31Z 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z

Women Entrepreneurship: Boon or Bane Mitra, Remi; Purohit, Rajen; Sharma, Mahendra India’s growth story has resulted in improvements in social parameters; however, has it translated into economic inclusion and development of women? The demographic dividend combined with educated population can help transform social and economic development. Entrepreneurship among women is a critical requirement to this. Today India has 13.5 – 15.7 Million women-owned enterprises, representing 20% of all enterprises. A large number of this reported as women-owned are not infact owned or run by women. It is on paper for financial and other reasons, with women having little or no role to play. The comparison with global yardsticks reflects that India needs to accelerate overall female entrepreneurship, with a vision of 30 million women owned enterprises by 2030.Achieving such vision and realistic goals require deep understanding of barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in India. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by examining the factors that enable women entrepreneurship and the corresponding challenges that women entrepreneurs face in small and medium enterprises(SMEs) in India. The paper integrates both boon and bane perspectives of women entrepreneurship as a holistic and interdependent system. International Conference on ‘Empowering Women Entrepreneurs from the Grassroots to Global’ - February 24-25, 2022

2022-02-24T00:00:00Z Podili, Rajasekhararaju http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13214 2022-03-09T16:35:15Z 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z

Women Leadership in Entrepreneurship Development Podili, Rajasekhararaju The Entrepreneurship Development through women leadership in 21st century was successfully why because of government and local bodies giving much more important on skilling, financial support in different subsidiarized programs, creation of self-organizing networks, strength is improved social media network, proper guidance, and support, clearly defined organizational Objectives, plan, design, accountability, collaboration, trust, and respect. Agriculture is the main source for rural women, they have also well experienced farming, now technology has been developed on processing of agriculture products and e- marketing also improved. in the In India Nearly 80% of the women are depended on agriculture sector, in that very few 28% of women involved in processing and marketing business, the same in 1990s the percentage of women who is doing business is 12 % only, it shows the involvement of women in business sector in last two decades increasing. and 46% of the women are agricultural and related works labours, but this figure masks considerable variation across regions and within countries according to age and social class. My study has been done on women leadership in entrepreneurship done in Kadapa district at Mylavaram and Jammalamadugu Mandal, mainly focused on weaving community and some of agriculture and enterprise areas, where particularly women involved. It’s observed that the labour work force burden of rural women exceeds that of men and includes a higher proportion of unpaid households’ responsibilities related to preparing food and collecting fuel and water, other than the business activity. I observed that the quality of leadership is very prodigious. Women participation in rural enterprise development must be improved and the same time their skill needs to be upgraded as per the technology. Successful running of business firm will require a balance between two different and often contradictory approaches of management and leadership. Rapid changes in both internal as well as external environment with respect to technology, govt. policies, customer demands, workers’ expectations, etc. will require excellent entrepreneurial leadership skills. For this there is a need to do effective training on leadership, implementation plan on women skilling in Agri processing, dairy and weaving and other sectors, where the women can easily do initially. This paper provides information, guidelines on women essential contribution to entrepreneurship development, leadership, and the gaps, like policy relevance, skilling, financing and planning to be fulfilled for more involvement of the women in business sector. International Conference on ‘Empowering Women Entrepreneurs from the Grassroots to Global’ - February 24-25, 2022

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