MPP 2024 – 25
Topic
Mentee
Mentor
Gender dynamics within Saudi family businesses
Basma Khoja – King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.
Sally Jones
Challenges and coping strategies of Omani women entrepreneurs.
Aziza Al Ghafri- Malardalens University, Sweden.
Carol Ekinsmyth
Personality determinants influencing women digital entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia
Abrar Alhajri – Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hayfaa Tlaiss
Challenges of women entrepreneurs in Egypt.
Ashraf Abdou Borham – University of Science & Technology of Fujairah, UAE.
Julia Rouse
Digital entrepreneurship and its influence on women in Bahrain.
Reem Jasim – Arab Open University, Bahrain.
Bettina Bastian
UAE media representations of gender.
Valerie Priscilla Goby- Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.
Hayfaa Tlaiss
The effects of the institutional systems on each gender of entrepreneurial activity across Gulf region countries.
Abdullah M. Aljarodi – King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Bronwyn Woods
Digital entrepreneurship among Emirati women
Urwa Tariq – United Arab Emirates University, UAE.
Katerina Nicolopoulo
The motivations, attitudes, challenges, and experiences of social entrepreneurs in Jordan.
Rana Zayadin – University of Sussex, UK.
Deema Refai
Role models in entrepreneurial education for women in Bahrain.
Arpita Anshu Mehrotra – Royal University for Women, Bahrain.
Dilani Jayawarna
Women in social entrepreneurship: Review and future research.
Mona Itani – American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, Lebanon.
Natalia Vershinina
Psychological empowerment and well-being of Saudi female entrepreneurs.
Hadil Alsaieri – University of Sussex, UK.
Haya Al-Dajani
Gendered forms and contexts of business exits of business exit of Saudi women entrepreneurs.
Melissa Langworthy – Independent Researcher.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a Potential Catalyst for Women-Led Micro-Enterprises in Marginalized Communities
Christine Samy Habib – Leeds Trinity University, UK.
Meet Our Mentors
Professor Susan Marlow – Field Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and Editor of the International Small Business Journal, the UK’s premier entrepreneurship research journal.
Professor Haya Al-Dajani – Associate Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, and Gender, Work and Organization. Additionally, Haya is on the Editorial Boards of the International Small Business Journal, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Journal of Family Business Management, and the Arab Economic and Business Journal.
Professor Hayfaa Tlaiss – Co-chair of MENAGEN, an experienced reviewer for leading entrepreneurship journals and academic mentor. Hayfaa has published extensively on women’s entrepreneurship in the Arab world.
Dr Bettina Bastian – Editor of the Arab Economic and Business Journal and has extensive reviewing experience for leading entrepreneurship journals. She is leading on several special issues related to gender and entrepreneurship scholarship in the Arab world.
Dr Carol Ekinsmyth – Co-Chair of the UK Women’s Enterprise Policy Group and Economic Geographer with key research interests in gender, place and enterprise. Carol won the Best Overall Conference Paper at the ISBE 2023 international conference, as well as the Best Paper in the Gender and Enterprise track. She is currently working in a multi-partner team on the EU-Intereg-funded ‘Accelerating Women’s Entrepreneurship’ project.
Dr Deema Refai – Joint Editor in Chief of The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Deema’s research focus is developed around constrained entrepreneurship, with a particular interest in the refugee and rural contexts, where she has led award winning research projects in Jordan and the UK, funded by the British Academy, AHRC and others.
Professor Dilani Jayawarna – Associate Editor of the Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Journal and Consulting Editor for the International Small Business Journal. She recently co-edited a special issue for International Journal of Entrepreneurship Behaviour and Research on entrepreneurial learning.
Dr Sally Jones – Co-Chair of ISBEGEN and an experienced reviewer for International Small Business Journal, Gender, Work and Organization, and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research among others, Sally has led the GEN Confreat, paper development workshops, since 2016. Sally is a review committee member for the International Journal for Entrepreneurship Behaviour and Research.
Professor Maura McAdam – an internationally recognized scholar within the area of women’s entrepreneurship. Maura is an experienced reviewer, academic mentor and sits on several Editorial Boards of leading entrepreneurship journals including Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, and the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
Professor Katerina Nicolopoulo – Associate Editor, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship since 2020, and former Associate Editor European Management Review (2016-2019). Katerina has co- edited Special issues for journals such as Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, European Management Journal and Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions as well as books with publishers such as Routledge and Edward Elgar.
Professor Julia Rouse – highly experienced academic, reviewer and mentor and sits on several editorial boards of leading entrepreneurship journals including the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
Dr Lorna Treanor – Editorial Board member and Consulting Editor for the International Small Business Journal and also sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. Lorna has been Gender track chair for the ISBE annual conference for eight years and is Vice President for Research of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE).
Professor Natalia Vershinina – Associate Editor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. Natalia is on the Editorial Reviewer Board of Academy of Management Perspectives and Journal of Management Studies, and is leading on several special issues on gender and entrepreneurship, poverty and entrepreneurship as well as entrepreneurship in healthcare industry.