Empreendedorismo feminino na produção acadêmica brasileira em administração: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Abstract

The overall objective of this work is to explore the paths taken in Brazilian scientific production regarding female entrepreneurship. The methodology adopted followed the PRISMA protocol, with systematic searches in the SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), Scopus, and Web of Science databases, resulting in a final sample of 9 empirical articles published between 2019 and 2025. The titles address different dimensions of female entrepreneurship, highlighting aspects such as perception, social, educational, psychological, and territorial context. The studies emphasize knowledge management, intelligence, and self-efficacy as determining factors for entrepreneurial success. Furthermore, they focus on gender inequalities, stereotypes, low income, and structural barriers, showing how social, cultural, and institutional factors influence women's intention, permanence, and development in entrepreneurship. The main methodologies used were qualitative and quantitative approaches followed by descriptive characterization. Regarding the recurrence of authors, no explicit nominal repetition of individual authors is observed throughout the listed years, suggesting a diversity of research groups investigating the topic from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. It is observed that part of the objectives focuses on the organizational and cognitive dimension, investigating women's perceptions of Knowledge Management and Organizational Intelligence in their companies. These objectives indicate an interest in understanding how learning practices, knowledge sharing, and the use of organizational intelligence contribute to the sustainability and performance of businesses led by women. In this sense, the results discussed throughout this study were able to achieve all the listed objectives and indicate that female entrepreneurship constitutes a complex, heterogeneous, and contextualized phenomenon, the understanding of which requires integrated theoretical approaches, diverse methodologies, and attention to the multiple realities experienced by women.