People

Shandana is a researcher in Women Entrepreneurship, with a special focus on women entrepreneurs in developing economies. Shandana attained a Masters degree in Marketing from the University of Warwick, UK in 2012. Thereafter, Shandana completed her PhD in Entrepreneurship from Cardiff University in 2020. Her doctoral research explored the multiple dimensions of value in women entrepreneurship in Pakistan. Upon culmination of her doctorate degree, Shandana moved back to her hometown in Pakistan where she manages her health care family business and seeks to support and facilitate medical students to explore entrepreneurial opportunities to better manage their work-balance in a conservative country like Pakistan. Simultaneously, Shandana persues her passion to research on various aspects of entrepreneurship including entrepreneurship undertaken by differently abled individuals and transgender entrepreneurship.

DOUBLE SPECIAL ISSUE

Yousafzai, S., Fayolle, A., Lindgreen, A., Henry, C, Saeed, S., and Sheikh, S. (Eds.) (2018). “Women Entrepreneurship and the Myth of Underperformance: A New Look at Women’s Entrepreneurship Research”, Eds. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 978 1 78643 449 4

BOOK CHAPTERS

Sheikh, S., Yousafzai, S., Sist, F., Akdeniz, A., and Saeed, S. (2018). Value creation through women entrepreneurship in “Women Entrepreneurship and the Myth of Underperformance: A New Look at Women’s Entrepreneurship Research”, Eds. Yousafzai, S., Fayolle, A., Lindgreen, A., Henry, C, Saeed, S., and Sheikh, S. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 978 1 78643 449 4

Sheikh, S., Sist, F., Akdeniz, A. and Yousafzai, S. (2018). Developing an understanding of entrepreneurship intertwined with motherhood: A career narrative of British Mumpreneurs in “Women’s Entrepreneurship: Going beyond the Gender-Neutral Approach”, Eds. Yousafzai, S., Lindgreen, A., Saeed, S., Henry, C., and Fayolle, A. Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8356-0

Sheikh, S., Akdeniz, A., Sist, F., Yousafzai, S., and Saeed, S. (2018). Discovery and creation of opportunities by female entrepreneurs in the Welsh and Turkish entrepreneurial ecosystem: A social capital perspective, in “Women’s Entrepreneurship: Going beyond the Gender-Neutral Approach”, Eds. Yousafzai, S., Lindgreen, A., Saeed, S., Henry, C., and Fayolle, A. Taylor & Francis Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8356-0

Sheikh, S. and Yousafzai, S. (Forthcoming). Public Value Creation through the Lens of Women’s Entrepreneurship, in “Public Value – A Research Anthology”, Eds. Lindgreen, A., Kitchener, M., Brewer, J., Moore, M., Meynhardt, T. and Koenig-Lewis, N. Taylor & Francis Publishing.

The Global WEP Research Team (2017). Women’s entrepreneurship policy: a 13-nation cross-country study. In “Entrepreneurial ecosystems and growth of women’s entrepreneurship: A comparative analysis”, Eds. Manolova, T., Brush, C., Edelman, L., Robb, A. & Welter, F. Edward Elgar.

CONFERENCES

Sheikh, S., Yousafzai, S., Akdeniz, A., and Saeed, S. (2017). Opportunity discovery and creation of female entrepreneurs in Welsh and Turkish entrepreneurial ecosystem: A social capital perspective. British Council Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference, Thailand. April 3-5th 2017

Sheikh, S., and Yousafzai, S. (2017). Value creation through Women’s Entrepreneurial Activity: a multi-level perspective. British Council Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference, Thailand. April 2017

Sheikh, S. and Yousafzai, S. 2015. Institutional embeddedness of mumpreneurship in the UK: A career narrative approach. Presented at: 2015 Diana International Research Conference: Theme: Women Entrepreneurs in Ecosystems, Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA, 9 June 2015.