Article: Women entrepreneurship: the role of education, national culture, and various supports Journal: International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets (IJBEM) 2024 Vol.16 No.3 pp.429 - 452 Abstract: Encouraging women to get involved in entrepreneurship is key to women empowerment and wellbeing. This study endeavours to contribute to this cause by investigating the role of education, national culture, and various supports (financial support, government support, and social support) in shaping women's entrepreneurial intention. PLS-SEM was used on a sample of 351 women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. This study finds that education and financial support play a significant role in encouraging women's entrepreneurial intention, but not government and social support and national culture. This in turn highlights the importance of empowering women to be independent (education and financial support) rather than dependent (government support) or interdependent (social support), even in developing and collectivist countries like Bangladesh (national culture), in order to promote and support women entrepreneurship. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Women entrepreneurship: the role of education, national culture, and various supports

Authors: Md. Shahadat Hossain; Weng Marc Lim; Md Asadul Islam

Addresses: School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Jalan UPM, Seri Kembangan, Selangor, 43300, Malaysia ' Sunway Business School, Sunway University, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, 47500, Malaysia; School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia; Faculty of Business, Design and Arts, Swinburne University of Technology, Jalan Simpang Tiga, Kuching, Sarawak, 93350, Malaysia ' BRAC Business School, BRAC University, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh; Sunway Business School, Sunway University, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, 47500, Malaysia

Abstract: Encouraging women to get involved in entrepreneurship is key to women empowerment and wellbeing. This study endeavours to contribute to this cause by investigating the role of education, national culture, and various supports (financial support, government support, and social support) in shaping women's entrepreneurial intention. PLS-SEM was used on a sample of 351 women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. This study finds that education and financial support play a significant role in encouraging women's entrepreneurial intention, but not government and social support and national culture. This in turn highlights the importance of empowering women to be independent (education and financial support) rather than dependent (government support) or interdependent (social support), even in developing and collectivist countries like Bangladesh (national culture), in order to promote and support women entrepreneurship.

Keywords: education; financial support; government support; social support; national culture; entrepreneurial intention; entrepreneurship intention; female entrepreneur; female entrepreneurship; women entrepreneur; women entrepreneurship.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEM.2024.139473

International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, 2024 Vol.16 No.3, pp.429 - 452

Received: 14 Jun 2022
Accepted: 25 May 2023
Published online: 02 Jul 2024 *

Title: Women entrepreneurship: the role of education, national culture, and various supports

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