Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?

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 upon women’s entrepreneurial behaviour; such analyses have highlighted an emb...

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Main Authors: Marlow, Susan, Martinez Dy, M.
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Published: Sage 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47204/
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description 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 upon women’s entrepreneurial behaviour; such analyses have highlighted an embedded masculinity within the entrepreneurial discourse which privileges men as normative entrepreneurial actors. Whilst 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.
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spelling nottingham-472042020-05-04T19:16:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47204/ Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research? Marlow, Susan Martinez Dy, M. 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 upon women’s entrepreneurial behaviour; such analyses have highlighted an embedded masculinity within the entrepreneurial discourse which privileges men as normative entrepreneurial actors. Whilst 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. Sage 2017-11-10 Article PeerReviewed Marlow, Susan and Martinez Dy, M. (2017) Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research? International Small Business Journal . ISSN 1741-2870 entrepreneurship gender multiplicities normativity research http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0266242617738321 doi:10.1177/0266242617738321 doi:10.1177/0266242617738321
spellingShingle entrepreneurship
gender
multiplicities
normativity
research
Marlow, Susan
Martinez Dy, M.
Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?
title Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?
title_full Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?
title_fullStr Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?
title_full_unstemmed Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?
title_short Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?
title_sort annual review article: is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?
topic entrepreneurship
gender
multiplicities
normativity
research
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47204/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47204/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47204/