TY - JOUR
AU - Hashemy, Tayeba
AU - Shrestha, Rajeev
AU - Hashemy, Sayed Mahdi
AU - Kotera, Yasuhiro
AU - Kaneda, Yudai
AU - Bhandari, Divya
AU - Dulal, Pratigya
AU - Abeysinghe, Sudeepa
AU - Ozaki, Akihiko
AU - Mousavi, Sayed Hamid
PY - 2023
DA - May
TI - The challenges faced by women-owned companies in Afghanistan under COVID-19 and Taliban
JO - Cogent Social Sciences
VL - 9
IS - 1
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2195231
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of power to the Taliban have negatively affected women-owned companies. This study aimed to explore the external and internal challenges of women-owned businesses from March 2020 to January 2022 in Afghanistan. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted from December 2021 to January 2022 with 29 women-owned company owners and chief executive officers (CEOs) based in five provinces of Afghanistan. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The themes are COVID-19 external challenges: movement restriction, inability to access the market, and financial issues. COVID-19 internal challenges: financial and production problems. Taliban governance external challenges: regulation on women’s activities, economic crisis, and market downturn, and Taliban governance internal challenges: financial issues, production issues, and staff mental wellbeing. The study concluded that challenges due to the COVID-19 and Taliban governance presented strong shocks to women-owned companies that may precipitate the closure of these companies or the immigration of businesswomen.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/the-challenges-faced-by-women-owned-companies-in-afghanistan-unde
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Work and workforce
ER