20.500.12556/RUL-173804 Financing women entrepreneurship in the developing world an fsQCA analysis of informal financing scheme This study adopts a configurational approach to facilitate a better understanding of the informal financing mechanisms inherent in women’s entrepreneurship. It draws on observations involving 200 Nigerian women entrepreneurs to study the antecedents that underpin informal financing in women’s entrepreneurship. Six antecedents, including firm age, size, entrepreneur’s age, marital status, educational level, and industry, alongside Ajo—an informal financing scheme—are studied. Using fuzzy sets, the study deduces six configurations depicting the use of this informal financing scheme in women’s entrepreneurship. FsQCA analysis reveals how these antecedents collectively form six configurations related to Ajo. Contrary to the bank–firm theory of formal financial relationships, this study uncovers how even educated women entrepreneurs also use Ajo for entrepreneurial purposes. We contend that simplistic predictions formed around a single antecedent must make way for a configurational approach, whereby a set of conditions must be in place to account for informal financing in women’s entrepreneurship, especially in the developing world. entrepreneurship women workers developing countries informal financing Ajo women entrepreneurship developing world fsQCA podjetništvo žensko delo dežele v razvoju true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-09-23 15:53:09 2025-09-23 15:56:53 2025-11-20 04:29:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 2043-2078 no. 5 Vol. 63 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 658 0047-2778 10.1080/00472778.2024.2418029 213819395 Financing_women_entrepreneurship_in_the_developing_world__An_fsQCA_analysis_of_informal_financing_schemes.pdf Financing_women_entrepreneurship_in_the_developing_world__An_fsQCA_analysis_of_informal_financing_schemes.pdf 1 5AAA21A82331D4B1B959122F2685138D 2991a32a5123cae8400630c4e26d51288a863cd06d5cadf7fd8875db8abc0a24 14b3d2df-c540-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=222117 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472778.2024.2418029 0 bb1e1c02-9884-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=218468 Ekonomska fakulteta 0 0 0