Gender and Entrepreneurship as An Intertwined Social Practice: Narratives of A Learning Trajectory

Silvia Gherardi and Michela Giampietro

Business and Management Research, 2014, vol. 3, issue 4, 61-72

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to illustrate how doing gender and doing entrepreneurship form a single intertwined social practice. It is based on an empirical analysis of women¡¯s narratives about their becoming entrepreneurs. Five plots are identified- the women who positioned themselves as the creators of their businesses; those who define themselves as artists, those who assumed a position of co-author; those who described themselves as a ¡®responsible wife¡¯; those who defined themselves as belonging to the second generation. In fact becoming a woman entrepreneur implies a process of learning and enacting behaviors, discourses and competent participation in a local community. The narratives of becoming a woman entrepreneur are analyzed in relation to two dimensions- temporality and accountability.

Date: 2014
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