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TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurial narrative identity and gender
T2 - a double epistemological shift
AU - Hamilton, Ellie
N1 - Eleanor Hamilton is professor of entrepreneurship in the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development at Lancaster University Management School.
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - A double epistemological shift is proposed to challenge the enduring dominance of the discourse of entrepreneurial masculinity, which impedes our understanding of entrepreneurship. First, a reframing of the epistemological status of narrative supports philosophical and theoretical approaches to the constitution of narrative identity. Second, an epistemological shift to understand gender in entrepreneurship through the constitution of gendered identities in discourse is proposed. These shifts invoke the ontological dimension of narrative and contemporary theories of gender to understand entrepreneurial identity as co-constituted and located in repertoires of historically and culturally situated narrative. This offers new theoretical and methodological possibilities in entrepreneurship.
AB - A double epistemological shift is proposed to challenge the enduring dominance of the discourse of entrepreneurial masculinity, which impedes our understanding of entrepreneurship. First, a reframing of the epistemological status of narrative supports philosophical and theoretical approaches to the constitution of narrative identity. Second, an epistemological shift to understand gender in entrepreneurship through the constitution of gendered identities in discourse is proposed. These shifts invoke the ontological dimension of narrative and contemporary theories of gender to understand entrepreneurial identity as co-constituted and located in repertoires of historically and culturally situated narrative. This offers new theoretical and methodological possibilities in entrepreneurship.
U2 - 10.1111/jsbm.12127
DO - 10.1111/jsbm.12127
M3 - Journal article
VL - 52
SP - 703
EP - 712
JO - Journal of Small Business Management
JF - Journal of Small Business Management
SN - 0047-2778
IS - 4
ER -