http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12685 Fri, 15 May 2026 12:48:57 GMT 2026-05-15T12:48:57Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12694 Women’s Leadership Trends in Tribal Enterprises: A Study in Cooperatives based Tribal Enterprises in Jharkhand Bhaskar, Prem This paper attempts to analyse the status of women entrepreneurship initiatives through cooperatives in Jharkhand, India, and highlights the impact on tribal women empowerment, and their leadership competencies on this economic contribution. Bargaining for women leadership positions in all spheres of Asian societies has emerged as an important concern in quest of equity, whereas tribal women’s development has mostly remained limited to their participation in various programmes run by the government as well as non-government agencies. Recognition of women leaders from a tribal community in the 21st century is still a distant dream. Yet economic empowerment and group activities in the tribal regions of Jharkhand have revealed the potential and are seen as instrumental in transforming leadership capabilities of tribal women leaders in the tribal geography of Jharkhand. The paper shares the outcomes of the author’s study based on case studies in the region, secondary data and, literature review, related to the trends in tribal women’s leadership. The study reveals that women from tribal communities of Jharkhand have traditionally been disempowered socially and treated as less capable to lead and mostly refrained from societal leadership positions. It is also revealed that with facilitation and support, they demonstrate excellent leadership competencies to manage successful collective enterprises. The study was able to showcase that given a facilitative environment woman from tribal can also become successful leaders. The study also raises prominent questions of assessing the impact and influence of such empowerment and productive collective entrepreneurship on socioeconomic independence and economic self-reliance. Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12694 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12693 The Response of Entrepreneurs to the Uncertainty of Entrepreneurship in the Times of Covid 19 Kokatnu, Priyanka; Dixit, Aparna COVID-19 being unique in its own way, the severity of its impact on businesses has certainly impacted both supply and demand in the global economic system. Covid-19 has also affected the entire community of entrepreneurs immensely in terms of their approach towards entrepreneurship. This had led to a quick transformation to their operating styles which is more digitalized now. Despite of this serious dramatic and disastrous change, it is observed that a lack of understanding exists for the community of entrepreneurship. This research paper is a review of literature that discusses the response of entrepreneurs to this uncertainty of Covid-19 pandemic. A literature review is conducted of the current existing studies on Covid-19 and entrepreneurs to highlight the need of response of entrepreneurs to such uncertain conditions. This study enables a better and deeper understanding about how entrepreneurs have become proactive and are imbibing positive approach. The paper concludes that the Covid-19 crisis has been difficult for entrepreneurs due to the required change in their perspective of their operation. This means the use of technology is the need of the hour. This will surely enable the entrepreneurs to overcome the uncertainty in Entrepreneurship. Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12693 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12692 The Mediation Role of Micro-entrepreneurship in the Relationship between Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation Sofi, Zubair Ahmad; Qureshi, Nasir Zamir This paper aims to evaluate the impact of microfinance on the alleviation of poverty. The paper also tests the mediating role of micro-entrepreneurship and the interaction effect of entrepreneurial training on microfinance and poverty alleviation. The research is based on the cross-sectional data collected from 400 beneficiaries of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) Scheme through a pre-tested questionnaire. The data was analyzed by using regression analysis, ANOVA, and t-test. The mediation and moderation analysis was done by using PROCESS macro developed by Andrew Hayes. The results suggest that access to microfinance has enhanced the standard of living and health of beneficiaries, whereas the education of the children of beneficiaries has been negatively impacted. The results also revealed that there is a mediation role of micro-entrepreneurship and moderation role of entrepreneurial training in the relationship between microfinance and poverty alleviation. The study is based on cross-sectional data and can be replaced by a longitudinal research design. Moreover, this study focused only on the experimental group, thus, ignoring the control group. Further research could be done focusing on both experimental as well as control groups. The study's findings apprise the decision-makers and the microfinance proponents about the significance of micro-entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial training in enhancing the impact of microfinance among the deprived sections of society, particularly in rural India. This paper is the first to check the mediating role of microentrepreneurship and the moderating effect of entrepreneurial training in microfinance and poverty alleviation. Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12692 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12691 Role of Ecosystem in Supporting Rural Entrepreneurs during COVID-19 Gupta, Rajesh; Sahu, Akash; Sinha, Piyush Kumar The rural economy plays a critical role in the development of the nation. COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks have led many countries to impose lockdown. India, the world's second most populated country with more than 65% population in rural areas faced lockdown restrictions which adversely impacted enterprises particularly village level nano enterprises. Analysis of how these village enterprises have been impacted due to the lockdown and factors that have contributed towards tiding over these challenges faced due to lockdown were analysed. Findings suggest that enterprises which had support of community driven and developed ecosystem at the local level were able to survive and perform even in adverse conditions. Micro entrepreneurs trained on entrepreneurship were better placed in terms of managing their resources and were also prepared to diversify into newer opportunities to tide over the adverse impact of lockdown. The study brings out the role of an entrepreneurial ecosystem for rural enterprises that makes them more resilient and sustainable. Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12691 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z