Female entrepreneurship and innovation in small business management: reflections from multisector experiences
Female entrepreneurship and innovation in small business management: reflections from multisector experiences
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https://doi.org/10.51473/rcmos.v1i1.2023.1630Keywords:
female entrepreneurship; business innovation; multisectoral management; economic development; strategic leadership.Abstract
Female entrepreneurship has emerged in recent decades as a strategic driver of economic development, particularly within small and medium-sized enterprises, where women act not only as business operators but as transformative leaders fostering innovation, resilience and sectoral diversification. This article presents a comprehensive analysis of female leadership grounded in practical experience across multiple industries — including hardware retail, bakery operations and accounting services — highlighting how women’s participation often introduces highly adaptive, sustainability-oriented and innovation-focused management models. By integrating empirical insight with academic literature and critical assessment of public policy incentives, this study demonstrates that female entrepreneurship is not merely inclusionary, but structurally reformative, actively reshaping organizational strategy, employment generation and the future of local economic competitiveness.
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