TY - JOUR
T1 - Relational practices and reflexivity: Exploring the responses of women entrepreneurs to changing household dynamics
AU - Meliou, Elina
AU - Edwards, Tim
N1 - © Sage 2017. The final publication is available via Sage at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242617724858
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - This qualitative study explores how and why women, positioned as mothers, wives, or carers, navigate changing household dynamics, related to care and reproductive resources, and become entrepreneurial. Drawing on relational reflexivity, we show how women’s embodied, intimate relations with important others in the household form the focal point for entrepreneurial activities and offer evidence of their entrepreneurial agency. Our analysis reveals the emergence of three relational practices that result in a new venture as the entrepreneurial response of women. We critically evaluate normative analyses on gender, entrepreneurship, and household.
AB - This qualitative study explores how and why women, positioned as mothers, wives, or carers, navigate changing household dynamics, related to care and reproductive resources, and become entrepreneurial. Drawing on relational reflexivity, we show how women’s embodied, intimate relations with important others in the household form the focal point for entrepreneurial activities and offer evidence of their entrepreneurial agency. Our analysis reveals the emergence of three relational practices that result in a new venture as the entrepreneurial response of women. We critically evaluate normative analyses on gender, entrepreneurship, and household.
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0266242617724858
U2 - 10.1177/0266242617724858
DO - 10.1177/0266242617724858
M3 - Article
SN - 0266-2426
VL - 36
SP - 149
EP - 168
JO - International Small Business Journal
JF - International Small Business Journal
IS - 2
ER -