http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/5890 2026-05-15T14:22:31Z 2026-05-15T14:22:31Z Kumari, Amrita Singh, Saumya http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/6734 2018-04-20T09:19:27Z 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z

Women's Entrepreneurship through MSMEs: Growth and Development in Uttarakhand Kumari, Amrita; Singh, Saumya Today’s world, women entrepreneurs have become a crucial component of the world corporate environment. Women are the backbone of economic development in many developed and developing nations. In India, women function as an important pillar of the society. Women Entrepreneurship (WE) has emerged as a global concept and utilizes competencies and skills of women for the success of their enterprises. Woman entrepreneurship development, especially among women largely focuses on the empowerment of women through developing skills in micro, small to medium-sized enterprise (MSMEs) and business ventures by taking the risk of making investment decisions. The MSMEs sector has often been termed the ‘engine of growth’ for developing economies. The study is focused on social-status of women entrepreneurs in Uttarakhand, and role of women entrepreneurs in the development of micro, small and medium scale Industries in Uttarakhand. Especially it is focused on Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Industries and employment in Uttarakhand. Twelfth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini

2017-02-01T00:00:00Z Pradhan, Rachana N Joshi, Priyanka http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/6048 2017-04-03T06:59:32Z 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z

Women in STEM: Emerging Mountains in the Great Indian Entrepreneurship Landscape Pradhan, Rachana N; Joshi, Priyanka Globally, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) based entrepreneurial ventures are primarily considered to be a male dominated sector. With the increasing literacy rate among girls, rise in female oriented STEM-based startups is expected but is not the observed trend, either in India or internationally. The sixth economic census released by the ministry of statistics and program implementation, Government of India, shows that women constitute 13.76% of the total entrepreneurs of which 34.3% work in agricultural sectors while 65.7% work in non-agricultural sectors. Non-agricultural based entrepreneurial activities are dominated by manufacturing and retail based ventures with statistics on women-owned or women-led STEM based ventures unaccounted for. While studies indicate the rapid emergence of women undergraduates in engineering and technology in India (15.8% in the UK as compared to India where over 30% of the engineering students are women, Statistics from Women’s Engineering Society), the pipeline is leaky with women opting to drop out after college or midway, during careers. In contrast, statistics for women in science is lacking with few women-owned scientific spin-offs. In this perspective we aim to underscore the disparity concerning the “leaky pipeline” for women in STEM. We also compare and contrast global versus indigenous efforts to promote the presence of women in STEM-based entrepreneurial ventures as well as provide recommendations to accelerate these efforts.

2017-02-22T00:00:00Z Bhatia, Pooja Panda, Rasananda http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/6047 2017-04-03T06:43:27Z 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z

Women Entrepreneurship: A Behavioural Economics Approach Bhatia, Pooja; Panda, Rasananda Women entrepreneurship is gaining recognition in the world of business today. The increasing participation by the women in entrepreneurial activity necessitates to understand the various aspects of women entrepreneurship. Over the period, women entrepreneurship has gained a significant place among the researchers, especially for the challenges faced by women in making and running an enterprise. There is immense research on women entrepreneurship its challenges and suggestions to overcome it. The present paper will be elucidating the existing research and suggestions made for the individual determinants of women entrepreneurship. The study will further state the differences in earnings by the women in selfemployment vis-a-vis job and reasons thereto. Further, the research will review behavioural aspects of entrepreneurship such as – risk aversion, intuition and confidence – for understanding the factor influencing the earning capacity of women-led enterprises. Overall, the paper is an attempt to provide explanation of major changes in the ecosystem of women entrepreneurship given the standard economics framework in general and behavioural economics framework in particular.

2017-02-22T00:00:00Z Lakshmi, M Roja Maleyvar, Kanak Rathod, Dhanraj Singh http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/6046 2017-04-03T06:40:52Z 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z

Women Entrepreneurship through Microfinance: A Case Study of Prayas Jan Vikas Bhandol – Gandhinagar Lakshmi, M Roja; Maleyvar, Kanak; Rathod, Dhanraj Singh Microfinance is emerging as a powerful instrument and dominating force for poverty alleviation and providing linkage between Self Help Group-Bank as a cost effective mechanism for providing financial services to the marginalized families by women entrepreneurship; which has been successful not only in meeting financial needs of the rural poor women but also strengthen collective self-help capacities of the poor women. The female entrepreneurs are getting support through Prayas Microfinance Wing (Prayas Jan Vikas Bhandol) results in women’s ability to influence or make decision, increased self-confidence, better status and role in household etc. This paper puts forward how Prayas Jan Vikas Bhandol (PJVB) micro finance wing has received extensive recognition as a strategy for economic empowerment of women. This research examined the role of Prayas with respect to economic empowerment and poverty alleviation of rural women through entrepreneurship. An effort is also made to suggest the ways to increase women empowerment. The research used both quantitative and qualitative data collected from both primary and secondary sources. A sample of 30 women entrepreneurs from PJVB have been collected for the study. The Prayas Microfinance Wing was approached through questionnaire to collect primary data. Secondary data was collected from relevant books, journals, government publications, research reports, and various web sites. Analysis of data employed descriptive statistic. Further, the study established that Prayas microfinance wing provides economic support and have boosted women’s self-esteem of the marginalized women through the services of microfinance.

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