Gender in Management: Volume 39 Issue 7

Guest editorial: New perspectives on women’s entrepreneurship in China: identity negotiation, gender agency, and meaning-making

Ling Han, Jing Song, Iiris Aaltio

Embracing a rubber rice bowl: women’s transition from paid work to self-employed entrepreneurship in coastal China

Jing Song

This study aims to examine why women transition from wage work to self-employed entrepreneurship, the seemingly insecure and unruly economic sector compared with the stable iron…

The influence mechanism of women’s entrepreneurial self-identity on entrepreneurial well-being: evidence from China

Ya Lan, Yongdong Shi, Yu-xiao Liu, Wu Wei

This study aims to investigate how women’s entrepreneurial self-identity influences their experience of well-being through entrepreneurship.

Femininity penalties and rewards: obstacles and opportunities for Chinese female entrepreneurs in gender-segregated industries

Lulu LI

This study aims to answer two questions: (a) what obstacles and opportunities do Chinese female entrepreneurs face when doing business? And (b) how do they negotiate their…

Doing business against gendered stigma: skilled female migrants in Hong Kong’s cross-border insurance business

Siyuan Zhou, Jing Song

This study aims to examine whether skilled female migrants can overcome gender constraints and social stigma attached to women’s service work in host societies.

Work–family conflict and behavioral outcomes of Chinese female leaders: the mechanisms of work–family guilt and family centrality

Yuling Chen, Zihan Yuan, Charles Weizheng Chen

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of work-to-family conflict (WFC) on unethical pro-family behavior (UPFB) and work engagement (WE) among Chinese female leaders…

Online business: ambitious daughters and their suspicious career in China?

Lin Tang, Jing Song

Online business can be an attractive career choice but bears gendered implications under China’s market economy. This study aims to examine how highly educated young women…

From the emancipated to the emancipator: an integrative perspective on women social entrepreneurs’ emancipation experiences

Liang Shang

Social entrepreneurship has been recently viewed as an emancipatory process that promotes freedom and autonomy for social entrepreneurs and those they serve. However, the…

Crafting gender into meaningful work: experiences of women engaging in social entrepreneurship in China

Ling Han

Social entrepreneurship, leveraging economic activities to achieve social benefits, offers women the opportunity to freely and actively shape the contours of their work in…