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100			_aShalizi, Shabnam _99473
245			_aWomen-owned SMEs in emerging markets: _bthe missing link in global supply chains
260			_bRoutledge _aLondon _c2022
300			_axxv, 188 p.
365			_aGBP _b120.00
504			_aTable of Contents Foreword by Manuel Castells Preface: Meet Fatima Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Finding the Missing Link in Global Supply Chains Chapter Three: Women-Owned SMEs in Emerging Markets Chapter Four: Institutional Arrangements: Understanding, Reacting, and Adapting Chapter Five: International Standards and Procurement in Practice Chapter Six: Circumventing Boundaries Digitally and the Role of Trust Chapter Seven: Unpacking the Women in Trade Deficit Chapter Eight: Conclusion
520			_aBook Description This book investigates women as business owners in emerging markets, documenting the structural difficulties they face as a result of their seeking access to global supply chains, and demonstrating the ways in which they are rewriting norms and challenging market assumptions. Although women own an estimated one-third of all small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets, they are deeply underrepresented in global supply chains. In what the author refers to as the Women in Trade Deficit, women-owned enterprises earn less than 1% of all money spent on vendors by large corporations and governments worldwide. Drawing on an in-depth empirical investigation of a range of SMEs in Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka, this book investigates how women enter the supply chains of major global firms and multinational corporations and the challenges they face in doing so. Overall, the book argues that these business owners are rewriting norms and rearranging markets through networked enterprises to advance what the author calls prosocial industrialism. Whilst many studies focus on women at the micro-enterprise or laborer level, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of their role at the helm of SMEs that trade internationally. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across business studies, economics, sociology, and development studies, and to donor agencies, policymakers, and the global private sector.
650			_aSmall business _96079
650			_aWomen-owned business enterprises _910911
650			_aDeveloping countries _9415
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