Women's Perceived Empowerment in Entrepreneurial Efforts: The Role of Bricolage and Psychological Capital
基于印度古吉拉特邦369名女性中小企业主的调查，发现创业赋权（感知能力、自主性和管理能力）与企业收入正相关，且拼凑和心理资本能进一步增强资源受限女性的赋权收益。
Women's entrepreneurial empowerment—perceived competence, self-determination, and ability in managing a firm as an entrepreneur—is important to women's entrepreneurship in developing countries. Drawing on a sample of 369 women entrepreneurs from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in Gujarat, a western state in India, we find that women's entrepreneurial empowerment is positively associated with firm revenues. Gains from empowerment could be further enhanced for women entrepreneurs managing resource constraints—through bricolage—and meeting the challenges of self-employment—through psychological capital. The present study contributes to literature on women's entrepreneurial empowerment and SME performance. Women's empowerment and the bolstering effects of bricolage and psychological capital could help government agencies and non-government organizations devise programs and policies to improve the performance of women-owned SMEs in developing countries.