Community Groups and Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: A Study of a Senegalese Case.

In this article, we study the role of women community groups in the sectors of local cereals and juices in Senegal. Our research question is "what motivate women to choose traditional associations to engage in entrepreneurship? How their entrepreneurial process is influenced by institutions? A qualitative study case analysis based on semi-structured interviews was used to obtain answers to our research questions. So, we deeply studied four cases of women community groups in the city of Saint Louis in Senegal. Our Results show that the collective entrepreneurship is the strategy adopted by the women community groups to improve collectively and individually the women living conditions facing the constraints and opportunities resulting from formal institutions (government, regulatory authorities, development partners, NGOs, etc.) and informal institutions (e.g., social norms, conventions, self-imposed codes of conduct, etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]