The Wellbeing of Women in Entrepreneurship

Foreword

‘It takes a village to raise a child’ is an African proverb that means that it takes an entire community of people to let children develop and flourish. In the entrepreneurship literature it is increasingly recognized that it takes an entrepreneurial ecosystem to let entrepreneurs, female or male, and their ventures develop and flourish.

Flourishing goes beyond the traditional standards of entrepreneurial success, such as growth in profitability, sales, or number of employees. These can be important means but are unlikely to be ultimate ends. Human flourishing, of entrepreneurs, their private and business partners, their employees, their family, and even their entire community, are ends worth striving for. Women entrepreneurs around ...