Enacting Entrepreneurship and Leadership: A Longitudinal Exploration of Gendered Identity Work

Kate V. Lewis

Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, vol. 53, issue 3, 662-682

Abstract: Entrepreneurship and leadership are enacted as examples of practice and taken on as forms of identity; they are also both understood to be gendered constructions. The paper explores how entrepreneurial leadership is enacted by a female entrepreneur over time and how being a leader is integrated into entrepreneurial identity development via gendered identity work. The empirical foundation of the paper is a longitudinal case study of a ew ealand female entrepreneur that is informed by primary data spanning almost a decade (2005–2014). The data were collected via multiple, in‐depth, narrative interviews and analyzed using the framework of interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Date: 2015
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