Female entrepreneurship

El espíritu empresarial de las mujeres

Eve Lamendour () and Paulette Robic ()
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Eve Lamendour: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université, CEREGE [Poitiers] - Centre de recherche en gestion - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers
Paulette Robic: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université

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Abstract: Given the challenge of gender inequality in the workplace, we believe that it is relevant to examine the mechanisms at work in the dysfunction of female entrepreneurship. We believe that it is wise to look at the social representations linked to women's entrepreneurship in the long term, in the process of being constructed and disseminated, to give them a historical reading. To do this, we decided to examine fiction as an element in the construction of the social representations of entrepreneurship and its role in society. We call upon 19th century French, English, and German literatures to show how female entrepreneurial identities are shaped. Our thesis is that the old narrative is still at work in our contemporary societies, preventing women from achieving careers similar to those of men. The selected novels are treated as case studies from which we have identified possible roles for the reader's imagination. Novels, contemporary of the industrial revolutions have not disdained the role of women in the economic world and have detailed how women could have access to the management of companies, at least in fictio

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Representation; Popular culture; History; Espíritu empresarial; Género; Representación; Cultura popular; Historia; Culture populaire; Histoire; Entrepreneuriat; Genre; Représentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02-17
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Published in Revue Internationale PME, 2023, ⟨10.7202/1095584ar⟩

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