Janine Swail

I am a prominent contributor to gender and entrepreneurship research in New Zealand and the United Kingdom and my work critically illustrates the predominant masculinity of entrepreneurship research and offers new insights using a gender lens. My most recent work has focused on gender and entrepreneurial ecosystems with an explicit focus on business exit/closure and the equity financing strategies of women entrepreneurs. This leads me to explore ‘wicked problems’ using qualitative techniques where I can draw attention to the gendered nature of some of the challenges women entrepreneurs face (e.g. raising capital, exiting from a business). This research has expanded my breadth of analysis to include angel investors and venture capitalists in the United Kingdom (UK) and New Zealand (NZ).

I am deeply committed to advancing critical knowledge and scholarly insights that improve opportunities for women by challenging gendered structures within entrepreneurial ecosystems.