1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787403803321

Autore

Orser Barbara

Titolo

Feminine Capital : Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs / / Catherine Elliott, Barbara Orser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]

©2015

ISBN

0-8047-9431-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

338 .04082

Soggetti

Businesswomen

Entrepreneurship

Self-employed women

Women-owned business enterprises

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

1 Reframing Entrepreneurship -- 2 Intention, Success, and Identity -- 3 Getting to Go -- 4 Enterprise Growth -- 5 Social Capital -- 6 Money Matters -- 7 Power in Policy -- 8 Never Underestimate the Underestimated Woman.

Sommario/riassunto

Today, there are over 200,000,000 women business owners around the world. Many of these entrepreneurs are not doing business as usual, nor are they simply leaning in. Rather, they are tapping into feminine capital—the unique skills and sensibilities that they have cultivated as women—to create enviable successes. Drawing on four decades of award-winning research, Feminine Capital reveals how women are harnessing different approaches to doing business. Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliott detail the pillars of feminine capital and offer new insight into the ways that gender can influence entrepreneurial decision-making. They find that leveraging feminine capital can help women to create distinctive brands, build new markets, and drive profits—all while leveling the playing field in business. In doing so, women are changing our social and economic landscape, one venture at a time. Dispelling myths and misperceptions that can undermine women-owned ventures, this book takes a fresh look at how female



entrepreneurs can leverage their skills, knowledge, and values. Case studies of women entrepreneurs bring key concepts and lessons to life, while learning aids, diagnostic tools, and checklists help readers to construct innovative business models, refine start-up plans, and hone growth strategies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974972003321

Autore

Mentan Tatah <1948->

Titolo

Democracy for breakfast : unveiling mirage democracy in contemporary Africa / / Tatah Mentan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mankon, Bamenda : , : Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

9789956791040

9956791040

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/09172/4

Soggetti

Women - Developing countries - Social conditions

Democracy - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Profile of neoliberal ideology -- Introduction : context, concepts and substance -- At the core of neoliberal ideology -- Neoliberalism, state and global governance -- A critique of market-driven democracy -- The neoliberal state in general -- Neoliberalism and thought control in Africa -- Thought control : unveiling corporate manipulation : the media -- Unveiling neoliberal thought control : education -- Future with African democracy -- Summary, reprise and typologies -- Toward African democracy?

Sommario/riassunto

Democracy is the faith that the process of experience is more important than any special result attained, so that special results achieved are of ultimate value only as they are used to enrich and order the ongoing process. Africans must therefore be allowed to apply their cultural and historical experiences and talents in working out a pattern



of 'government of the people, by the people, and for the people' according to their own understanding and as their own peculiar circumstances demand. Those who do not want the vertical 'Western-Style Democracy' must be given a fair chance to demonstrate an alternative African horizontal democracy. Perhaps what they come up with might be of benefit to politics even in the West, provided that their radical system of horizontal democracy protects the life, liberty and property of citizens, and provided that the people want it. The question of externally imposed or market-driven multi-party or dual-party or non-party is a matter of modality and should not occupy the center stage in Africa.