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Contents: Introduction: Friederike Welter -- 1. David Smallbone and Friederike Welter (2001), 'The distinctiveness of entrepreneurship in transition economies', Small business economics , 16 - (4), June, 249-62 -- 2. David Smallbone and Friederike Welter (2003), 'Entrepreneurship in transition economies: Necessity or opportunity driven?', Babson-Kauffman entrepreneurship research conference (BKERC) paper , 1-16 -- 3. Leona Achtenhagen and Friederike Welter (2005), '(Re-) constructing the entrepreneurial spirit', Frontiers of entrepreneurship research, Babson college, MA, USA, 104-17 31 -- 4. Friederike Welter and Frank Lasch (2008), 'Entrepreneurship research in Europe: Taking stock and looking forward', Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 32 (2), March, 241-8 -- 5. Jürgen Schmude, Friederike Welter and Stefan Heumann (2008), 'Entrepreneurship research in Germany', Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 32 - (2), March, 289-311 -- 6. Friederike Welter and David Smallbone (2008), 'Women's entrepreneurship from an institutional perspective: The case of Uzbekistan', International entrepreneurship and management journal , 4 - (4), December, 505-20 -- 7. Candida G. Brush, Anne de Bruin and Friederike Welter (2009), 'A gender-aware framework for women's entrepreneurship', International journal of gender and entrepreneurship , 1 - (1), 8-24 -- 8. Kerstin Ettl and Friederike Welter (2010), 'Gender, context and entrepreneurial learning', International journal of gender and entrepreneurship , 2 - (2), 108-29 -- 9. Leona Achtenhagen and Friederike Welter (2011), '"Surfing on the ironing board" - The representation of women's entrepreneurship in German newspapers', entrepreneurship and regional development , 23 - (9-10), December, 763-86 -- 10. Lutz Trettin and Friederike Welter (2011), 'Challenges for spatially oriented entrepreneurship research', Entrepreneurship and regional development , 23 (7-8), September, 575-602 -- 11. Friederike Welter (2011), 'Contextualizing entrepreneurship - conceptual challenges and ways forward', Entrepreneurship theory and practice , 35 - (1), January, 165-84 -- 12. Friederike Welter and David Smallbone (2011), 'Institutional perspectives on entrepreneurial behavior in challenging environments', Journal of small business management , 49 - (1), January, 107-25 -- 13. Friederike Welter (2012), 'All you need is trust? A critical review of the trust and entrepreneurship literature', International small business journal, 30 (3), may, 193-212 -- 14. Friederike Welter and Mirela Xheneti (2013), 'Reenacting contextual boundaries - entrepreneurial resourcefulness in challenging environments', in Andrew C. Corbett and Jerome A. Katz (eds), Entrepreneurial resourcefulness: Competing with constraints (advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth, volume 15), Bingley, UK: Emerald group publishing ltd, 149-83 -- 15. Friederike Welter, Candida Brush and Anne de Bruin (2014), 'The gendering of entrepreneurship context', Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IFM) Bonn working paper 01/14, February, 1-23 277 -- 16. Friederike Welter and David Smallbone (2015), 'Creative forces for entrepreneurship: The role of institutional change agents', Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IFM) Bonn working paper 01/15, March, 1-29 - 17. Friederike Welter, David Smallbone and Anna Pobol (2015), 'Entrepreneurial activity in the informal economy: A missing piece of the entrepreneurship jigsaw puzzle', Entrepreneurship and regional development, 27 (5-6), 292-306 -- 18. Friederike Welter (2016), 'Wandering between contexts', in David B. Audretsch and Erik E. Lehmann (eds), The routledge companion to the makers of modern entrepreneurship, chapter 19, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 213-32 -- 19. Ted Baker and Friederike Welter (2017), 'Come on out of the ghetto, please! - Building the future of entrepreneurship research', International journal of entrepreneurial behavior and research, 23 (2), 170-84 -- 20. Friederike Welter, Ted Baker, David B. Audretsch and William B. Gartner (2017), 'Everyday entrepreneurship - A call for entrepreneurship research to embrace entrepreneurial diversity', Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 41 (3), May, 311-21 -- Index.

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Purpose
This paper aims to illustrate the main contributions of the context-gender discussion in entrepreneurship research and its main developments over time to identify promising future research avenues.


Design/methodology/approach
This paper builds on the author's extensive knowledge of the context-gender debate and on several recent overviews and reviews of the debate. It is written as essay, introducing its main themes through a personal reflection and complemented by a selective review of research on gendered contexts and women's entrepreneurship.


Findings
The context-gender discussion has moved forward. The first wave of context-gender studies contextualized gender, considering the impact of contexts on women's entrepreneurship. Nowadays, studies are conducted on how contexts are gendered and how they are constructed in gendered ways through, for example, words, images, cognitions, as well as how women entrepreneurs can impact on and enact their contexts.


Originality/value
This paper contributes novel insights into contextualizing gender and gendering contexts. It is unique in suggesting that a perspective on gendering contexts will allow to explore the diversity of entrepreneurship and further develop theories related to contexts and gender.

Abstract
Mittelstand companies are the backbone of the German economy: they constitute the vast majority of enterprises in Germany, contribute to employment, and are a pillar of the German apprenticeship system. The specific ownership–management structure of the Mittelstand used to go hand in hand with social, intergenerational, and regional responsibility. However, today's very small and young entrepreneurs do not perceive themselves as Mittelstand; many entrepreneurs do not intend to employ others, and structural changes in the economy have also resulted in fundamental changes of the Mittelstand. This paper explores the characteristics of the Mittelstand and its future, asking whether Mittelstand will continue to play a fundamental role in the social market economy in Germany.

Die Strategiegenese in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) ist durch eine Konzentration auf die jeweilige Situation und durch eine hohe Dynamik gekennzeichnet. Wichtige Entscheidungen werden spontan und auf den ersten Blick "unüberlegt" gefällt, Strategien sind offensichtlich selbst auf der operativen Ebene nicht (immer) vorhanden. So haben mehr als die Hälfte aller KMU in Deutschland keine Konzepte für die Geschäftsführung, ein Viertel verfügt über wenigstens einjährige Konzepte, nur knapp 22 vH - zumeist größere Unternehmen - über mehrjährige Überlegungen. Brauchen KMU keine Strategien? Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen dazu kommen zu widersprüchlichen Ergebnissen. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschäftigt sich Friederike Welter in der vorliegenden Veröffentlichung (Habilitationsschrift) mit dem Phänomen strategischen Verhaltens von KMU. Theoretisch und anhand eigener Erhebungen untersucht sie, wie sich Handlungsmuster und Strategien in KMU entwickeln und welchen Einfluss dabei das jeweilige wirtschaftliche, politische und kulturelle Umfeld hat. Dabei kommt die Autorin zu der Erkenntnis, dass die Frage nach der Notwendigkeit von Strategien für KMU weder mit einer isolierten Betrachtung einzelner Einflussfaktoren beantwortet werden kann, noch Strategien in KMU auf schriftlich niedergelegte Pläne reduziert werden können. Politische Faktoren wie der Entwicklungsstand von Marktwirtschaften spielen ebenso eine Rolle wie das sozio-kulturelle Umfeld und die Wirtschaftspolitik. Die empirische Betrachtung verdeutlicht, dass Strategien erlernt oder übernommen werden, aber ebenso aus der Situation heraus entstehen.