Collaborative Entrepreneurship: How women entrepreneurs ‘do’ networking

Women?s business networks tend to be depicted as secondary, or as putting women at a disadvantage in terms of entrepreneurship success. Challenging current views on gender and women entrepreneurs? networks, this study reveals the key role of women?s networks in the creation and development of strong and lasting business relationships. We present women?s ?collaborative entrepreneurship? as a powerful feminist networking practice. The research results are based on a set of qualitative, in-depth interviews with ten female entrepreneur dyads, who met through a female network in Luxembourg, and have been working in close collaboration over the years. Through three key benefits related to sisterhood, empowerment, and innovation, women?s collaborative entrepreneurship appears as particularly adapted to the contemporary economic context.