The Influence of Women's Economic Empowerment on Technology Entrepreneurship Intention Through Self-Efficacy in Womenpreneurs in Surabaya
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This study investigates the influence of Women Economic Empowerment on Technology Entrepreneurship Intention through the mediating role of Self-Efficacy among womenpreneurs in Surabaya, Indonesia. This study aims to examine whether the WEE-SE-TEI framework, originally developed in a Middle Eastern context, holds in a Southeast Asian setting. A quantitative survey approach was employed. Data were collected from 120 female entrepreneurs in Surabaya using purposive sampling and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) via SmartPLS 4. The results confirm that Women Economic Empowerment positively and significantly influences both Self-Efficacy and Technology Entrepreneurship Intention, and that Self-Efficacy partially mediates this relationship. Future research should extend this framework to broader geographic contexts and incorporate additional variables such as digital literacy and social capital
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Carolina Tjoe, G. . and Febriyantoro, M. T. . (2026) “The Influence of Women’s Economic Empowerment on Technology Entrepreneurship Intention Through Self-Efficacy in Womenpreneurs in Surabaya”, Jurnal Mantik, 10(1), pp. 120-130. doi: 10.35335/mantik.v10i1.7104.
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Ali, M., Ali, I., Badghish, S., & Soomro, Y. A. (2021). Determinants of Financial Empowerment Among Women in Saudi Arabia. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.747255
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Hassan, O. H. M., Sobaih, A. E. E., & Elshaer, I. A. (2022). The Impact of Women’s Empowerment on Their Entrepreneurship Intention in the Saudi Food Industry. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15(12), 571. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15120571
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Laszlo, S., Grantham, K., Oskay, E., & Zhang, T. (2020). Grappling with the challenges of measuring women’s economic empowerment in intrahousehold settings. World Development, 132, 104959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104959
Liñán, F., & Chen, Y. (2009). Development and Cross–Cultural Application of a Specific Instrument to Measure Entrepreneurial Intentions. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 33(3), 593–617. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6520.2009.00318.x
Madawala, K., Palazzo, M., & Foroudi, P. (2025). Explore Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy as the Foundation of Resilience and Reputation Strategy in a Crisis: A Qualitative Study Among Women Entrepreneurs in the Tourism Industry. Corporate Reputation Review. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41299-025-00229-2
Manzoor, S., Manzoor, A., & Qureshi, M. B. (2018). Analyzing Economic Empowerment Of Women Entrepreneurs In Informal Sector. Pakistan Journal of Applied Social Sciences, 8, 73–89.
Mivehchi, L. (2019). The Role of Information Technology in Women Entrepreneurship (The Case of E-Retailing in Iran). Procedia Computer Science, 158, 508–512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2019.09.082
Paoloni, P., Secundo, G., Ndou, V., & Modaffari, G. (2019). Women Entrepreneurship and Digital Technologies: Towards a Research Agenda (pp. 181–194). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00335-7_12
Pinem, R. J. (2019). THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN INCREASING MOTIVATION OF MILLENNIAL WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS STARTING A BUSINESS IN THE DIGITAL ERA. In International Journal of Entrepreneurship (Vol. 23, Number 2).
Somià, T. (2026). Competency-based strategies of women entrepreneurs for overcoming barriers: The key role of entrepreneurial learning. Journal of the International Council for Small Business, 7(2), 632–653. https://doi.org/10.1080/26437015.2025.2521121
Tang, C. S. (2022). Innovative Technology and Operations for Alleviating Poverty through Women’s Economic Empowerment. Production and Operations Management, 31(1), 32–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13349
Vallerine, J., & Handoyo, S. E. (2023). THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF-EFFICACY IN THE EFFECTS OF NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT AND SELF-CREATIVITY ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION AMONG WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN JAKARTA. International Journal of Application on Economics and Business, 1(3), 1625–1639. https://doi.org/10.24912/ijaeb.v1i3.1625-1639
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