RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP VISION DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS

464 RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Family was one of the main dimensions in this study, Later, the options of activities to
which to travel and network seems conditioned by family ideology, which eventually led
women to experience limitation in their entrepreneurial activities,
These findings strongly showed that women’s autonomy to go to certain places and locations
along with their freedom of option to do certain things ties with family factors (family
ideology). However, this consent to limited mobility as being non-problematic and accepted
by most nascent women entrepreneurs working in this society.
Conclusion and recommendation
In conclusion, the study has conceptualised mobility from a female entrepreneurship perspective.
It has shed a light on spatial mobility and spatial capability in terms of the possibilities,
freedom, and constraints associated with nascent women entrepreneurial activities
in the process of business creation, specifically in Saudi Arabia. It has also focused on the
nascent women perception of actual travel and potential of movements in terms of how these
women perceive their mobility to be, and how they contextualise mobility and discussed their
travel with their family rather than how much they travel.
It was found that it was not actual travel that strict women’s mobility, but rather spatial
capability that limits and constrain their movement for social activities. Therefore, it is possible
to argue that while Saudi women have started a business to be independent, this has not
transformed into freedom in many aspects of their entrepreneurial activities, including spatial
mobility and capability.. The constraints women face in terms of where to go along with
whom to meet is what constitutes Saudi women’s mobility. With this recognition in mind, it
seems that entrepreneurial activities embraced by Saudi women have mostly aligned with family
ideology.
This study also found that Saudi women experience limitation in their spatial capability
due to the limitation of family preferences. This has contributed to the understanding of the
contextual factor associated with women entrepreneurship. Moreover, this study has revealed
the habituation and reinforcement of constraints stems from the women’s family. It has shown
that women’s submission to their family ideology is accepted as their forced choice in where
to go and who to meet influences their entrepreneurial activities.
The contribution this study sought to make was through combining the existing literature
on both entrepreneurship and mobility to position spatial mobility and spatial capability in
entrepreneurship studies. Therefore, Saudi women were selected as representing an extreme
case study to understand this relationship. It also highlights family ideology as a main contextual
factor of influence for nascent women entrepreneurs.
Nevertheless, the paper suggests further study to consider spatial mobility and capability
as a contribution to human development by looking at the role of spatial mobility on business
development and to compare other social groups and countries as unit of analysis. With
spatial capability being an abstract concept, further studies could include different groups of
people from diverse social environments to explore mobility to provide a diverse grounding
for the literature. This could also encompass the role of women’s’ mobility on business growth
when it comes to international travel. In addition, further studies could approach women
entrepreneurship from different socioeconomic classes and analyse other contextual factors.
For example, this approach could take the form of comparing Saudi women entrepreneurs in