Am I an Entrepreneur? Identity Struggle in the Contemporary Women Entrepreneurship Discourse

IF 2.4 Q2 ECONOMICS Contemporary Economics Pub Date : 2017-12-31 DOI:10.5709/CE.1897-9254.259
L. B. Orlandi
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Despite extensive research into their identity, women entrepreneurs still struggle to identify themselves as entrepreneurs and encounter role models. This study shows that one explanation for this struggle is misalignment in the discourses on women entrepreneurs’ identity. Misalignments and fragmentations in discourses on identity prevent women entrepreneurs from finding discursive material with which to lay solid foundations for the social construction of their identity. By comparing and contrasting the academic discourse with the discourse from interviews with women entrepreneurs between 2012 and 2017, this study provides evidence that the discourses on women entrepreneurs’ identity are misaligned. This misalignment may depend on the tendency in academia to address gaps in the literature and devote less attention to revisiting, in new empirical contexts, issues that have been considered in prior studies. This study also highlights several issues that are framed in widely divergent ways in the two discourses. The presence of several such misalignments helps explain current difficulties that women encounter in identifying themselves as entrepreneurs.
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我是企业家吗?当代女性创业话语中的身份斗争
尽管对女性企业家的身份进行了广泛的研究,但她们仍然难以将自己定位为企业家,并遇到了榜样。这项研究表明,这种斗争的一个解释是对女性企业家身份的话语错位。身份话语的错位和碎片化阻碍了女企业家寻找话语材料,为其身份的社会建构奠定坚实的基础。通过对2012年至2017年女性企业家访谈的学术话语与访谈话语的比较和对比,本研究提供了关于女性企业家身份的话语错位的证据。这种错位可能取决于学术界倾向于解决文献中的空白,而较少关注在新的实证背景下重新审视先前研究中考虑过的问题。本研究还强调了在两个话语中以广泛不同的方式提出的几个问题。这种错位的存在有助于解释目前女性在认定自己为企业家时遇到的困难。
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