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dc.contributor.authorGill, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorGanesh, Shiv
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-29T20:47:54Z
dc.date.available2009-01-29T20:47:54Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationGill, R. & Ganesh, S. (2007). Empowerment, constraint, and the entrepreneurial self: A study of white women entrepreneurs. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 35(3), 268-293.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/1920
dc.description.abstractDiscourses of entrepreneurship and research on women entrepreneurs have proliferated in the last two decades. This study argues that a particular conception of an entrepreneurial self underlies much literature on women entrepreneurs and their empowerment, and identifies several key assumptions of this entrepreneurial self. The study then assesses the motivations and experiences of several white women entrepreneurs in a northwestern state in the United States, finding that aspects of the entrepreneurial self are most evident in the reasons that women provide about why they became entrepreneurs. However, the experiences the women narrate reveal a more constraints-centered discourse, which features a particular interpretation of the frontier myth of the American West, and bears traces of an emergent, collective notion of empowerment. The authors explain such empowerment from critical and feminist perspectives, offering the concept of bounded empowerment as a lens through which to examine entrepreneurship and gender, and discussing its practical implications.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a780591375~db=all~order=pageen
dc.subjectdiscourseen
dc.subjectempowermenten
dc.subjectentrepreneurial selfen
dc.subjectentrepreneurshipen
dc.subjectfrontier mythen
dc.subjectfeminismen
dc.subjectgenderen
dc.subjectintersectionalityen
dc.subjectwhitenessen
dc.titleEmpowerment, constraint, and the entrepreneurial self: A study of white women entrepreneursen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00909880701434265en
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Applied Communication Researchen_NZ
pubs.begin-page268en_NZ
pubs.elements-id32431
pubs.end-page293en_NZ
pubs.issue3en_NZ
pubs.volume35en_NZ


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