Drawing on the literature examining the nexus between gender, entrepreneurial leadership and entrepreneurial performance, this article critically explores a framework for analysing the role of gender in shaping entrepreneurial performance and leadership in tourism firms in a non-western context. Utilising a poststructural feminist lens that challenges normative accounts of entrepreneurial leadership practices, a qualitative analysis of interview data from tourism entrepreneurs in Ghana and Nigeria provides evidence of how entrepreneurial performances and leadership are gendered, fluid and constantly being negotiated. The article extends current discussions within tourism entrepreneurship to engage more meaningfully with gender, thereby assisting in deconstructing homogenous, fixed conceptualisation of entrepreneurial leadership - often evident within the broader leadership and entrepreneurship literature dominated by Anglo-Western approaches.

本文基于研究性别，企业家领导力与企业家绩效之间关系的文献，批判性地探索了一个框架，用于分析性别在非西方背景下在塑造旅游公​​司的企业家绩效和领导力中的作用。利用对企业家领导行为的规范解释提出质疑的后结构女性主义视角，对来自加纳和尼日利亚旅游业企业家的访谈数据进行定性分析，为企业家绩效和领导力的性别，流动性和持续谈判提供了证据。本文扩展了旅游企业家精神中的当前讨论，以更有意义地与性别互动，从而有助于解构同质，