Purpose

While most research on female entrepreneurship has been conducted using the traditional private-for-profit logic, with the growing rise of hybrid and public organizational forms, the value of female entrepreneurial initiatives tends to be shared with society at large. Overcoming the traditional distinction between private vs public sectors, this paper relies on the publicness theory and aims to appreciate the shared value of female entrepreneurship by reviewing evidence from the field of knowledge sharing.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors conduct a three-phase systematic literature review on female entrepreneurship and knowledge sharing based on a sample of 188 articles for the period 2010–2022 retrieved from the three most extensive databases for evaluating scientific research (i.e. WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar) using a combination of relevant keywords within business and management domain. After the performance analysis of selected publications, the authors conduct a content analysis aimed at identifying the most recurrent theoretical framing, the impact of female entrepreneurship on value creation and the use of knowledge sharing. Finally, the authors conduct a thematic analysis using the theoretical perspective of the publicness to frame how different knowledge-sharing practices have been used in female entrepreneurship to create and spread public value.

Findings

The findings reveal that female entrepreneurship research has generally adopted managerial organizational and sociological theoretical frameworks, reported positive implications on value creation and has seldom exploited knowledge-sharing practices, with particular reference to the settings of low level of publicness. In addition, based on the development of the conceptual model, the authors suggest that the practice of networking in organizational structures characterized by a high level of political and/or economic authority makes the pattern of public value-sharing with the entire ecosystem easier.

Originality/value

The authors adopt an original approach that frames female entrepreneurship research within the lens of publicness theory to highlight the knowledge-sharing practices that allow the value created by female entrepreneurial initiatives to become a shared value in organizations characterized by high levels of political and/or economic authority. The proposed framework contributes to the research on entrepreneurship and knowledge sharing by providing a structured reference point to carry forward research on gender entrepreneurship and knowledge-sharing practices through the theoretical lens of the publicness.

中文翻译：

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女性创业中的共享价值。知识共享领域的公共框架

 目的

虽然大多数关于女性创业的研究都是使用传统的私营营利性逻辑进行的，但随着混合和公共组织形式的日益兴起，女性创业倡议的价值往往与整个社会共享。克服了私营部门与公共部门之间的传统区别，本文依赖于公共性理论，旨在通过回顾知识共享领域的证据来理解女性创业的共享价值。

设计/方法/方法

作者根据 2010 年至 2022 年期间的 188 篇文章样本，从三个最广泛的科学研究评估数据库（即 WoS、Scopus 和 Google Scholar）中检索到，使用商业和管理领域的相关关键字组合，对女性创业和知识共享进行了三阶段系统文献综述。在对选定的出版物进行绩效分析之后，作者进行了内容分析，旨在确定最反复出现的理论框架、女性创业对价值创造的影响以及知识共享的使用。最后，作者使用公共性的理论视角进行了主题分析，以构建女性创业中如何使用不同的知识共享实践来创造和传播公共价值。

 发现

研究结果表明，女性创业研究通常采用管理组织和社会学理论框架，报告了对价值创造的积极影响，并且很少利用知识共享实践，特别是提到低水平公共性的环境。此外，基于概念模型的发展，作者建议在以高级别政治和/或经济权威为特征的组织结构中进行网络化的实践，使与整个生态系统的公共价值共享模式更容易。

 原创性/价值

作者采用了一种原创的方法，将女性创业研究置于公共性理论的视角下，以强调知识共享实践，这些实践使女性创业倡议创造的价值成为以高水平政治和/或经济权威为特征的组织中的共享价值。拟议的框架通过提供结构化的参考点，通过公共性的理论视角推进性别创业和知识共享实践的研究，从而为创业和知识共享的研究做出贡献。