Purpose

This paper seeks to add a historical perspective to the contemporary debate concerning women’s entrepreneurship in India. This study aims to explore the quantitative and qualitative research map of the research field of women’s entrepreneurship. Through this exploration, the authors aim to portray the historical and contemporary factors related to women’s entrepreneurship development in India, the problems and the opportunities. Future research opportunities are also identified based on the keyword analysis.

Design/methodology/approach

The study uses a systematic literature review to analyze the historical and theoretical perspectives of women’s entrepreneurship in India. The bibliometric analysis portrays the publication landscape, including the most popular journals, authors and countries, citation analysis and keyword analysis. The content analysis reveals the thematic clusters of the research field.

Findings

The content analysis of the management literature on women’s entrepreneurship reveals four primary clusters from the research: contextual embeddedness in women’s entrepreneurship, reasons for starting a business, microfinance interventions and empowerment of women entrepreneurs and marginalization dynamics for women entrepreneurs in India’s informal sector. The study also presents implications for policymakers and a women entrepreneurs’ development framework.

Originality/value

To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is the first to comprehensively analyze the management literature on women’s entrepreneurship in India from a historical perspective. The study combines bibliometric mapping and content analysis for a holistic presentation of the research field of women’s entrepreneurship in India and future research opportunities.

中文翻译：

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发展中经济体女性创业研究轨迹的二十年历史：来自印度的视角

目的

本文旨在为有关印度女性创业的当代辩论添加历史视角。本研究旨在探索女性创业研究领域的定量和定性研究图谱。通过这一探索，作者旨在描绘与印度女性创业发展相关的历史和当代因素、问题和机遇。还根据关键词分析确定未来的研究机会。

设计/方法论/途径

该研究利用系统的文献综述来分析印度女性创业的历史和理论观点。文献计量分析描绘了出版情况，包括最受欢迎的期刊、作者和国家、引文分析和关键词分析。内容分析揭示了研究领域的主题集群。

发现

对女性创业管理文献的内容分析揭示了研究中的四个主要集群：女性创业的背景嵌入、创办企业的原因、小额信贷干预和女性企业家赋权以及印度非正规部门女性企业家的边缘化动态。该研究还提出了对政策制定者和女企业家发展框架的影响。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，这项研究是第一个从历史角度全面分析印度女性创业管理文献的研究。该研究结合了文献计量和内容分析，全面介绍了印度女性创业研究领域和未来的研究机会。