Immigrant female entrepreneurship in post pandemic scenario: a structured literature review

With this work we want to analyse the evidence in the literature of the capacity of immigrant female entrepreneurs to interpret the change and try to understand the possible ways in which the literature will address the different topics individuated. This survey aims to highlight in which subject area more attention has been paid to female immigrant entrepreneurship and help to understand possible future research areas in which to develop the topic. Through the analysis of the literature, we aim to know which features can enable female enterprises to seize the crisis as an opportunity. The analysis was conducted through the structured literature review (SLR) on 295 documents about female immigrant entrepreneurship; the contributions (articles, book chapters, and books) have been divided in five article focus. An analysis of the content was carried out to identify the research methodologies used and the thematic areas of reference. This paper outlines how the topic of immigrant women's entrepreneurship has been addressed in the literature, in different subject areas, particularly in Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometric and Finance. The use of an only one database, even though SCOPUS represents one of the most used scientific search engines, can be a limitation of this survey, as well as the manual analysis of the results of the SLR. On the other hand, the use of only one database can allow to identify the subject in which the research is mostly carried out and consider only referenced documents. This survey can have many practical implications. First, can point out the main research areas in which the topic has been developed, and the ones in which it can be developed in the future because of the shortage of surveys in these thematic areas. It can also contribute, in practice, to identify the common models of female entrepreneurship and the issues related to the different research areas. Paper Type – Literature Review