Challenges faced by minority technology entrepreneurs—women IT entrepreneurs in south africa post-apartheid era

Salifu Yusif; Matthew Abunyewah; Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie

doi:10.1007/s10843-024-00364-7

Challenges faced by minority technology entrepreneurs—women IT entrepreneurs in south africa post-apartheid era

Salifu Yusif, Matthew Abunyewah, Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie

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We explore the challenges women technology entrepreneurs face in South Africa and the role of institutions and societies in contributing to and overcoming these challenges through the lens of Institutional theory. Focusing on IT as a masculine-labelled niche and women as a minority, this study evaluates the impacts of cognitive culture, normative factors, regulatory factors and individual factors on women in IT entrepreneurship. We believe the outcomes of this study provide an example of how reforms impact the backbone of every economy—entrepreneurship, especially in an era where IT has reduced, if not removed, business entry barriers.

Original language	English
Article number	n1
Pages (from-to)	336-372
Number of pages	37
Journal	Journal of International Entrepreneurship
Volume	22
Issue number	3
Early online date	Nov 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-024-00364-7
Publication status	Published - Nov 2024

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