Lamptey, Richmond (2023) Gender lens investing, entrepreneurial resilience and Sustainable Development Goals: an institutional and stakeholder theoretical perspective. In: 14th Diana International Research Conference, 3rd - 6th June 2023, Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts USA. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Recent evidence from literature (Lamptey and Ngoasong, 2022; Agrawal and Hockets, 2021) shows that impact investment fund managers adopting Gender Lens Investing (GLI) are enabling women-owned businesses and other categories of SMEs to realize economic and social outcomes aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These outcomes
notwithstanding, macro, and global environmental uncertainties affect the nature and extent to which women-owned SMEs in many developing countries are accomplishing the anticipated
developmental objectives. For example, research reveals disproportionate effects of COVID19 on women-owned SMEs and families in developing countries relative to men in another
context. Entrepreneurial and business resilience described in literature to encompass development of new capabilities and opportunities, alertness, survival, minimizing vulnerability, quick recovery, sustainability, performance growth, within a difficult
environment become imperative for women-owned businesses (Lengnick-Hall et al. 2011). There is however paucity of studies to explore and understand how impact investors with underpinning gender lens mission and stakeholders enable women-owned SMEs to develop entrepreneurial resilience in resource constrained context amidst uncertainties at the macro and
global environments while seeking to realize the SDGs. This study aligns with the call by Agrawal and Hockets (2021) for research that applies institutional and stakeholder theories to understand how women-owned business in developing countries benefit from impact investing. Drawing on the nexus between institutional and stakeholder theories, and integrating impact investing and entrepreneurial resilience literature, this study overarchingly seeks to explore and understand the effects of GLI and entrepreneurial resilience as catalyst for women-owned SMEs toward achieving the sustainable development goals. The study is guided by the research question: Why and how GLI fund managers and stakeholders enable women-owned SMEs to develop resilience to achieve sustainable development goals in resource constrained context?

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Impact investing; gender lens investing; entrepreneurial resilience; SDGs
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business Faculty of Business > Department of International Business & Economics
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2023 11:35
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/43183

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