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ABSTRACT Research is beginning to query the dominance of Western‐influenced perspectives on emancipation. It identifies a significant contextual oversight in the discourse surrounding the emancipation of women in entrepreneurship in non‐Western settings. To this end, we employ an integrative literature review to unpack the research practices through which emancipation in women's entrepreneurship is constructed and understood along a macro–micro lens. Our analysis identifies how emancipation is constructed through three intra‐acting research practices: portraying women entrepreneurs as victims, framing agency as inherently constrained, and assessing emancipation based on its scale and presumed intentionality. Building on this, we contribute a processual perspective on emancipation which draws upon Karen Barad's agential realist. In a way, we reconceptualize agency and emancipation as phenomena emerging through contextually embedded intra‐actions. This perspective facilitates a more nuanced empirical understanding of women's entrepreneurial practices, recognizing their significance for women entrepreneurs in non‐Western contexts, with implications for studying emancipation as a process of becoming.
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