Business counselling services directed towards female entrepreneurs - some legitimacy dilemmas

Nilsson Pernilla

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 1997, vol. 9, issue 3, 239-258

Abstract: This paper follows on from a governmental business support programme directed towards female entrepreneurs in the rural districts of Sweden. The implementation of a gender segregated business counselling service is discussed from feminist and neo-institutional perspectives. The intention is to explore the components of the counselling service's identity formation within an institutionalized field of business. Female entrepreneurship as ‘the other’ leads 1.0 legitimacy dilemmas concerning the interactions between the counselling service and the Local Enterprise Boards. The study illustrates a situation where legitimacy is acquired by directing the search-light to external resources.

Date: 1997
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