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<p>The present article aims to investigate whether acquaintance with information and communication technology (ICT) and freedom of mobility (FM) impact ever-married women entrepreneurs’ intentions to expand their businesses directly or indirectly in the presence of subjective norms (SN). A two-stage purposive sampling method was used to gather a sample of 175 small women entrepreneurs from the three districts of Barak Valley of Assam, India. The entrepreneurial growth intention (EGI), along with its drivers, viz., SN, ICT, and FM, are conceived as latent variables and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) is employed to analyse the relationships between them. Our findings suggest that both ICT and FM mediate the relationship between SN and EGI. Additionally, we find that while both ICT and FM directly impact EGI, ICT has a stronger impact than FM and hence adequate measures to familiarise women entrepreneurs with the benefits of using ICT in business should be taken. Our study is novel since it has attempted to measure both the direct as well as indirect impact of information and communication technology and freedom of mobility on women’s entrepreneurial growth intention, which has not yet been explicitly studied in the literature.</p>

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Do technological acquaintance and mobility impact the growth intentions of women entrepreneurs? evidence from India

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    2026年6月27日

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  • Sunetra Nath,
  • Suchi Smita Swain

摘要

The present article aims to investigate whether acquaintance with information and communication technology (ICT) and freedom of mobility (FM) impact ever-married women entrepreneurs’ intentions to expand their businesses directly or indirectly in the presence of subjective norms (SN). A two-stage purposive sampling method was used to gather a sample of 175 small women entrepreneurs from the three districts of Barak Valley of Assam, India. The entrepreneurial growth intention (EGI), along with its drivers, viz., SN, ICT, and FM, are conceived as latent variables and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) is employed to analyse the relationships between them. Our findings suggest that both ICT and FM mediate the relationship between SN and EGI. Additionally, we find that while both ICT and FM directly impact EGI, ICT has a stronger impact than FM and hence adequate measures to familiarise women entrepreneurs with the benefits of using ICT in business should be taken. Our study is novel since it has attempted to measure both the direct as well as indirect impact of information and communication technology and freedom of mobility on women’s entrepreneurial growth intention, which has not yet been explicitly studied in the literature.