Title: Drivers of critical thinking among women micro-entrepreneurs in Ghana

Authors: Fanny Adams Quagrainie; Murat Sakir Erogul; Afia Dentaa Dankwa; Alan Anis Mirhage Kabalan

Addresses: Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, P.O. Box AH 50, Achimota, Accra, Ghana ' Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, Adelphi University, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY, 11530, USA ' School of Development Studies, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana ' Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana

Abstract: The study investigates critical thinking behaviours of women micro-entrepreneurs in Ghana by examining how life experience, education, use of internet, social engagement and self-criticism act as antecedents of critical thinking behaviours using age as a mediator. A total of 336 women micro-entrepreneurs were identified in Accra and Tema. Findings reveal that antecedents of critical thinking in developed and developing contexts can vary and age is a mediator that equips women micro-entrepreneurs with knowledge and skills that are useful for critical thinking. The paper contributes to the female entrepreneurship literature that critical thinking among women micro-entrepreneurs can be enhanced as a socially situated practice, emphasising the emergent understanding of critical thinking as embedded within social processes and context.

Keywords: critical thinking; micro-entrepreneurs; women; age; Ghana.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2023.132529

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2023 Vol.49 No.3, pp.436 - 457

Received: 26 Mar 2020
Accepted: 24 May 2020
Published online: 27 Jul 2023 *

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