Challenging the boundaries of entrepreneurship: The spatialities and practices of UK ‘Mumpreneurs’

Ekinsmyth, Carol

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.10.005

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“…There has not been space in this paper to engage with many of the debates that are relevant to this subject (see Ekinsmyth 2011). However, the two cases provided here highlight a number of more general themes in an area that has been under-researched by entrepreneurship scholars and those interested in home/work permeability.…”

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Family Friendly Entrepreneurship: New Business Formation in Family Spaces

Ekinsmyth

2012

Urbani izziv

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Seventy three per cent of UK enterprises have no employees and seventeen per cent of these are managed solely by women (GEM UK Data 2005). UK female entrepreneurship is thus a significant economic phenomenon and it is increasing, especially in rural areas. Suggestions are that women's businesses are different to men's (Ahl 2006, Hanson 2003, Hanson and Blake 2004 in terms of their nature, location, type and the way that business is done. Limited empirical investigation has been undertaken, especially within geography (Hanson 2003). In addition, it has been argued that women's participation in selfemployment generally, is under-theorised (Blake, 2006;Ahl, 2006;Lewis 2006). Buzar et al (2005) identify the need to consider within this, the social construction of gender, time, space, economy and culture. This paper aims to advance knowledge and understanding of both the characteristics of female businesses and the coordinates and circumstances of female entrepreneurship. This paper will investigate the nature, dynamics, networks and locations of the new businesses (started up within the past five years) of thirty women entrepreneurs all of whom are mothers and most of whom work at home. Two different types of new work/economic space will be examined. The first, the work locations of this economic activity, are a key defining feature of these businesses -they are typically the kitchens, bedroom and garages of the entrepreneurs' family homes within the spaces of family life. An understanding of such enterprises is assisted by adopting a household-level, work-life reconciliation perspective (Jarvis 2005, Moen andSweet 2004). The second new economic space reported in this paper will be the typical spaces of networking and marketing which often take place in electronic space, particularly the social networking sites (and especially female social and business networking, and mothers' networking internet sites that have become so popular in the past five years or so. Thus this paper will focus on new spaces of work and new ways of doing business.

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Family Friendly Entrepreneurship: New Business Formation in Family Spaces

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2012

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“…Women appear to have a stronger reliance on local networks to set up a business than men (Hanson, 2009;Hanson and Blake, 2009;Ekinsmyth, 2011). However, other studies comparing women and men could not find gender differences in the use of neighbourhood resources for business purposes (Reuschke and Houston, 2016).…”

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Unravelling the nexus between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods and communities – introduction

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Reuschke

Ham³

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“…Self-employed work may rely on, or be refracted through, particular histories or practices of class, immigration, race, nationality and ethnicity (Romero & Valdez, 2016;Sanghera, 2002). Additionally, self-employment is gendered, in form and in the narratives used to explain it, for instance, in the rise of 'mumtrepreneurs' and 'fempreneurs' (Ekinsmyth, 2011;Rouse et al, 2013), and in self-employed workers' access to familial resources (Marlow et al 2009) and inheritance (Valdez 2016). Similarly, self-employment practices vary with worker age and over the life course (Burchell et al, 2016;Mallett & Wapshott, 2015;McKie et al 2013).…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Everyday Self-Employment

Cohen

Hardy

Valdez

2018

American Behavioral Scientist

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. attracted policy concern across national, supranational and global scales, yet sociological thought has been somewhat slower to respond to this phenomenon. In response, this special issue focuses on everyday self-employment amongst workers drawn from countries across the world. The collection of articles in this volume originated, in part, from a recent symposium that took place at City, University of London, which highlighted the contribution of sociology and cognate disciplines to the study of self-employment. The volume considers the social and structural forces that condition this economic activity as an ideology and practice, as well as the constraints and opportunities for its maintenance and reproduction. Permanent repository linkIt also examines the everyday lives of self-employed workers and in particular the ways in which self-employment is experienced across a range of geographical, occupational, and industrial contexts, and with regard to social categories including race, class, nationality and gender. As neo-liberal subjects we are increasingly required to inhabit an entrepreneurial self. As such, a sociological understanding of the global patterns and everyday experiences of self-employment -or entrepreneurialism as practice -is essential for a critical understanding of the economy and society and the cultural legitimations associated with this oft-celebrated and aspirational economic activity. The contributors in this volume often challenge the mainstream view of self-employment and entrepreneurship to reveal the complexity and scope of activity; their perspectives provide new insights for researchers and policymakers regarding the function of self-employment in a changing economy and society. This introduction initiates a discussion of the central debates in the study of self-employment, introduces a working conceptualization of selfemployment, and presents a brief synopsis of the articles in this volume.

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Challenging the boundaries of entrepreneurship: The spatialities and practices of UK ‘Mumpreneurs’

Cited by 148 publications

References 48 publications

Family Friendly Entrepreneurship: New Business Formation in Family Spaces

Family Friendly Entrepreneurship: New Business Formation in Family Spaces

Unravelling the nexus between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods and communities – introduction

Introduction to the Special Issue: Everyday Self-Employment

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