Gig Economy Practices, Ecosystem, and Women's Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical Model

ABSTRACT

The current economic situation in many countries, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has forced local organizations to downsize the number of employees, reduce working hours or rely on temporary workers to perform the job by means of gig workers. While these conditions could be considered as a threat, some workforce vulnerable groups, like women, grasped this opportunity to develop entrepreneurial behavior and start-up their businesses. This paper aims to investigate the factors that under the explained circumstances encourage women to be entrepreneurs, proposing a theoretical model of relationships between gig economy practices and opportunistic and necessity women's entrepreneurship start-ups. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.