Battling with institutions: How novice female entrepreneurs contribute to shaping public policy discourse

Renaud Redien-Collot and Noreen O’Shea

Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2015, vol. 14, issue 2, 59-82

Abstract: Before evaluating outcomes of public policy support for women entrepreneurship, it is important to understand their inner workings, that is, how opinions expressed by users of support schemes and programs are appreciated. Relying on neo-institutional theory (North, 2005) and discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1992), we observe that novice French women entrepreneurs are no longer considered as mere targets of policies but as potential contributors to an innovative, socio-economic relational dynamic, on its way to becoming institutionally consolidated and, in time, sustainable.

Keywords: novice women entrepreneurs; support schemes; France; institutional processes; discourse analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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