DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN'S MICROENTERPRISE SUCCESS IN AHMEDABAD, INDIA: EMPOWERMENT AND ECONOMICS
研究了印度艾哈迈达巴德女性家庭服装生产者的微型企业成功，发现经济成功与赋权结果呈负相关，提示仅关注经济指标可能忽视权力与控制的重要性。
Abstract Microenterprise success is often evaluated solely in terms of economic outcomes. These evaluations do not recognize how opportunities for success may differ across groups and contexts, and disregard the importance of power and control as factors in success. This article investigates the determinants of a two-dimensional concept of microenterprise success for women in Ahmedabad, India, by analyzing data from a 1998 study of home-based garment producers. Growing economic success for these garment producers decreased empowerment outcomes, which suggests that evaluating both economic and empowerment outcomes and their interactions is important to understanding the process of achieving success. Improving the economic outcomes of women's enterprises via better training and access to markets, credit, and capital equipment does not necessarily facilitate women's empowerment. Microenterprise scholars and practitioners must focus on improving women's status within their homes, so they may contribute to and benefit from the decisions made about how to use their resources.