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Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?

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ID23314769
AuthorsSusan Marlow (0000-0003-4550-3747, University of Nottingham, corresponding author), Angela Martinez Dy (0000-0002-2737-311X, Loughborough University London, UK)
Year2018
Volume36
Issue1
Pages3-22
Publication date2018-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-2426 • E-ISSN: 1741-2870
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0266242617738321
OpenAlexW2773539466
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited104

This article develops a critique of contemporary approaches to analysing the impact of gender upon entrepreneurial propensity and activity. Since the 1990s, increasing attention has been afforded to the influence of gender on women’s entrepreneurial behaviour; such analyses have highlighted an embedded masculinity within the entrepreneurial discourse which privileges men as normative entrepreneurial actors. While invaluable in revealing a prevailing masculine bias within entrepreneurship, this critique is bounded by positioning women as a proxy for the gendered subject. This is a potentially limiting analysis that does not fully recognise gender as a human property with myriad articulations enacted throughout entrepreneurial activity. To progress debate, we engage more deeply with the notion of gender as a multiplicity, exploring the implications of such for future studies of entrepreneurial activity.

Economics · Entrepreneurship · Masculinity · Normative · Political science · Positive economics · Proxy (statistics) · Sociology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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