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"Entrepreneurship in context has been described as the third wave in entrepreneurship research. Accordingly, specific socio-economic, political, market and institutional contexts are key to fostering, enabling and enacting entrepreneurial activity and behaviours. These contexts shape everyday entrepreneurship experiences. This book is based on the premise that how gender is articulated within the entrepreneurial debate has to acknowledge context. However, context is not a construct which only applies to those economies and situations which differ from the presumed norm of Western developed nations. Adopting a more critical appraisal of how context is positioned within current theorising around gender and entrepreneurial behaviours offers potential to progress debate whilst acknowledging that competing and contrasting contextual influences require clearer recognition. This book therefore has the potential to unearth credible and robust approaches to further examining contextualisation and women entrepreneurship that advances new insights. By exploring and examining how contextual influences shape women's entrepreneurship, this book challenges the assumption that women entrepreneurship is the same throughout the world. It will be of value to researchers, academics, and students with an interest in entrepreneurship, political economy, economics, and public policy."

Creative Economies in Peripheral Regions -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Creative Economies and Industries in Peripheral Regions -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Our Framework Approach -- 1.1.2 Our Approach -- 1.2 Creative Economy: Definitions, Approaches and Alternative Models -- 1.2.1 The Creative Economy: A Growing Economy -- 1.3 Creative Economy Industry Classification and Our Classification -- 1.3.1 Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) UK -- 1.3.2 Alternative Classification Models -- 1.3.3 Creative Intensity: Towards a Benchmark? -- 1.3.4 Our Classification Approach -- 1.4 Key Drivers of the Creative Economy -- 1.4.1 Increased Demand for Creative Produce: Global, Societal and Technological -- 1.4.2 Changing the Ways We Produce and Consume: Digitalisation and Prosumers -- 1.4.2.1  Digitalisation -- 1.4.2.2  Prosumers -- 1.5 Some Creative Economy Critiques -- 1.5.1 The Concept and Precarity -- 1.5.2 Individualised and Romanticised Ideas of Small-Scale Creative Work -- 1.6 Making the Case for Peripheral Creative Economies -- 1.6.1 The Importance of Place -- 1.6.2 More Traditional Creativity: Hybridisation -- 1.6.3 Beyond the Economic? -- 1.7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2 The Role of Culture and Its Consumption -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Evolution of Consumption -- 2.2.1 Cultural Consumption: Role of Technology in Creating Experiences -- 2.2.2 Technological Advance in the Industrial Age -- 2.2.3 Back to the Future: Technology Enhanced Sharing -- 2.2.4 Cultural Consumption: Distribution and Communication -- 2.3 Values in Consuming -- 2.3.1 Expressive Values -- 2.3.2 Creative Expression -- 2.3.3 Creative Application -- 2.3.4 Creative Technology -- 2.4 Consumption: Market Types and Modes