Entrepreneurialism, Masculinities and the Self-Made Man

Mulholland, Kate

doi:10.1057/9780230504479_6

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“…Critical, feminist work on women's entrepreneurship exists, but is published elsewhere; in books, in sociology, history, cultural geography or anthropology, in critical theory journals, or in gender research journals (Ahl, 2002;Goffee & Scase, 1983;Mirchandani, 1999;Mulholland, 1996;Nutek, 1996;Ogbor, 2000;Sundin, 1988). Critical or feminist work does not seem to be considered by entrepreneurship research journals.…”

Section: Discursive Practice 10: Writing and Publishing Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Research on Women Entrepreneurs Needs New Directions

Ahl

2006

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Research articles on women's entrepreneurship reveal, in spite of intentions to the contrary, and in spite of inconclusive research results, a tendency to recreate the idea of women as being secondary to men, and of women's businesses being of less significance or, at best, as being a complement. Based on a discourse analysis, this article discusses what research practices cause these results. It suggests new research directions which do not reproduce women's subordination, but capture more and richer aspects of women's entrepreneurship.

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Section: Discursive Practice 10: Writing and Publishing Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Research on Women Entrepreneurs Needs New Directions

Ahl

2006

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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“…In contrast with the traditional male entrepreneurs (Mulholland, 1996;Axelrod, 2001), the interviewees reconcile action and discourse to describe their entrepreneurial activities. They value their own reflective qualities in social interactions.…”

Section: Preliminary Study Of Minority Entrepreneurs' Attitudes To Thmentioning

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“…In that context, knights asserted their authority in neutralizing the ambiguity of the world devastated by the tensions between good and evil and its uncertainty. More recently, Mulholland (1996) and Connel et al (2005) stress that men's entrepreneurial authority is focused on avoiding uncertainties rather than cementing social interactions. The struggle against uncertainties may encourage male entrepreneurs to produce very normative discourse as Hearn (1996) and Axelrod (2001) point it out in their respective works.…”

Section: Preliminary Study Of Minority Entrepreneurs' Attitudes To Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Female Entrepreneurs' Authority: Is the Creative Aspect of Authority a Masculine Fiction in Managerial and Entrepreneurial Paradigms?

Redien‐Collot

2009

J. Enterprising Culture

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Authority is the confirmation of the control an individual has over norms and codes (Sennet, 1981). It stimulates the development of social capital. Gender shapes authority. Bourdieu (1994) stresses that in traditional societies men can interpret and produce norms whereas women reproduce them and consequently may experience difficulties in constructing their authority. Butler (1990) confirms that this dichotomy is still effective in post-modern contexts. In the literature on women entrepreneurs, scholars stress their lack of social capital as an impediment to growing the business and suggest that they should follow the male model (Aldrich et al., 1997; Ban et al., 1996). However, if one examines carefully the process of production of social capital, one would see that it is the result of a strict gender labor-division. In spite of their agentivity, female entrepreneurs fail to overcome this. Many of them may thus be tempted to adapt male patterns of authority. The present study examines how women entrepreneurs and minority business owners assimilate authority that is encapsulated in the traditional male entrepreneurial discourse. Then it analyses the perception of women entrepreneurs on authority and its impact on their style of internal management and their strategies of networking. The results reveal that either female entrepreneurs adopt authority as a repressive tool of management that helps them to develop their social capital in restricted circles of influence or they scorn authority as the display of norms that may endanger the reputation of their firms and their social influence without proposing a clear alternative. Apparently, women entrepreneurs deny the creative aspects of authority that Sennet and his Foucaldian followers have detected in managers' behaviors in the context of organizational sociology.

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“…Female kin taking responsibility for the family, in the way described by the mother in this story, allows male kin to be absent from much of the domestic responsibility. Mulholland (1996b) argues that men can be seen to be leading the business and at the same time seen as a family man:…”

Section: Set 1 the Insurance Brokers: Patriarchy Paternalism And Jumentioning

confidence: 99%

Whose Story is it Anyway?

Hamilton

2006

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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The role of women in family business is relatively under-investigated. This article illuminates complex relationships in a family business context, putting the family at the heart of the research as opposed to an individual owner-manager. It draws on narrative accounts of establishing a family business, as told by the founders and by the succeeding generation in three family businesses. Some of the existing literature conceptualizes women in family business as marginalized through the forces of patriarchy or paternalism. The narratives presented in this article point to alternative gender discourses and practices, and to evidence of clear resistance to patriarchy. In so doing it begins to identify the conditions under which patriarchy might be challenged in family businesses.

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Entrepreneurialism, Masculinities and the Self-Made Man

Cited by 28 publications

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Why Research on Women Entrepreneurs Needs New Directions

Why Research on Women Entrepreneurs Needs New Directions

Female Entrepreneurs' Authority: Is the Creative Aspect of Authority a Masculine Fiction in Managerial and Entrepreneurial Paradigms?

Whose Story is it Anyway?

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