Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs

Norin Arshed; Graeme Martin; Stephen Knox

doi:10.1177/10422587221134786

Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs

Norin Arshed (Lead / Corresponding author), Graeme Martin, Stephen Knox

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Abstract

This article explores how women entrepreneurs enact identity work to construct their identities at the intersection of gender and entrepreneurship while facing challenges to their legitimacy as entrepreneurs. These legitimacy challenges trigger reflections into who they are as entrepreneurs, and where they belong within entrepreneurial contexts. We draw on 24 focus groups with women entrepreneurs and 30 interviews with enterprise support organizations. We present a model which advances our understanding of the complex identities of women entrepreneurs and how their use of identity work enables them (or not) to become legitimate members of an entrepreneurial community.

Original language	English
Number of pages	28
Journal	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Early online date	21 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221134786
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 21 Nov 2022

Keywords

gendered business support
identity motives
identity work
legitimacy
women entrepreneurs

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Business and International Management
Economics and Econometrics

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