International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Volume 2 Issue 1

Moving forward: institutional perspectives on gender and entrepreneurship

Helene Ahl, Teresa Nelson

The purpose of this paper is to propose a re‐directed and purposeful attention to the design of research on gender and entrepreneurship moving forward.

The paradox of gender equality: an entrepreneurial case study from Sweden

Kristina A. Bourne

Informed by socialist feminist theory, the purpose of this paper is to understand the impact of societal factors such as governmental policies, labor market structure, social…

Masculinity, doxa and the institutionalisation of entrepreneurial identity in the novel Cityboy

Robert Smith

As a result of a plethora of scholarly articles by feminist scholars of entrepreneurship, it is now widely accepted that the notion of entrepreneurship is ideologically skewed…

Masculinisation of the public sector: Local‐level studies of public sector outsourcing in elder care

Elisabeth Sundin, Malin Tillmar

The paper aims to explore the consequences of new public management (NPM) inspired reforms in general and outsourcing of traditional public sector responsibilities in Sweden to…

Social constructionism and personal constructivism: Getting the business owner's view on the role of sex and gender

Fiona Wilson, Stephen Tagg

While the entrepreneurship and small business research literature has tended to portray women as lesser than men in identifying the differences between them, little research has…

Research on entrepreneur networks: The case for a constructionist feminist theory perspective

Lene Foss

The paper aims to clarify how a gendered analysis of entrepreneurial networks may benefit by the use of a constructionist (post‐structuralist) perspective.

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