Defying contextual embeddedness: evidence from displaced women entrepreneurs in Jordan

Al‐Dajani, Haya; Akbar, Hammad; Carter, Sara; Shaw, Eleanor

doi:10.1080/08985626.2018.1551788

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“…Entrepreneurship was referred to as the means they had used to overcome obstacles and break free from gendered constraints to work in their own lives. This is not a unique finding as it has been put forward in Western, developed and developing country contexts (Al‐Dajani et al., 2019; Jennings et al., 2016), including Saudi Arabia (Alkhaled & Berglund, 2018). What is specific to this context, however, is the lack of “ability to act together” (J. C. Scott, 1990), thus the feeling of self‐empowerment through entrepreneurship within the current institutional structures led the women to set up their businesses with an ethos to support women's employment followed by a desire for political engagement toward social and structural change in their country.…”

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“…Transnational feminist perspectives studying migrant women's entrepreneurship living in the West have also questioned these notions, and cite the dark sides of viewing entrepreneurship as the “Holy Grail” of elevation and emancipation for women (Verduijn & Essers, 2013, p. 100). Despite acknowledging these important insights, studies in contexts such as the Middle East have continued to highlight how women's entrepreneurship can be used as a practice of defiance in patriarchal economies and societies, as women defy their contextual embeddedness and patriarchal boundaries to work through their entrepreneurial activities to empower themselves and others within their community (Al‐Dajani et al., 2019). Yet, this empowerment remains confined within the patriarchal structures, with structural change and emancipation from gender constraints becoming an object of desire seldom reached (Alkhaled & Berglund, 2018).…”

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Women's entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Feminist solidarity and political activism in disguise?

Alkhaled

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper is a longitudinal study that uses insights from postcolonial feminism to explore women's entrepreneurship as a political form of feminist organizing for social change in Saudi Arabia. Postcolonial feminist approaches challenge Western feminism, which can obscure the diversity of women's lived experiences, agency, and activism. Through Bayat's (2013) theory of “quiet encroachment,” I identify the ways in which contemporary Western conceptualizations of feminist solidarity and social movements have dismissed “Other” women's “silent,” protracted and (dis)organized activism in parts of the Middle East. By exploring how Saudi women have utilized their entrepreneurial space as a legitimate platform for change, I aim to enrich understanding of women's activism through everyday solidarity practices, which allow them to quietly encroach onto the previously forbidden political space. The findings exemplify how their activism “quietly” developed over time through a three‐step process—from the entrepreneur aiming to empower women within their organization, to developing feminist consciousness within their entrepreneurial network, to becoming a “political activist” lobbying for policy changes for women. These solidarity practices exemplify the West's relationship with “the Other,” and reveal that feminist organizing for social change must be explored within its own context in order to fully appreciate its global political potential.

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Women's entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Feminist solidarity and political activism in disguise?

Alkhaled

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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“…In this context, calls to consider a wider diversity of attributes has led to a wealth of research on different ethnic minority groups' experiences of entrepreneurship (Ram et al, 2013;Yamamura & Lassalle, 2019). Such studies have considered the impact of the intersectionality arising from dimensions of gender, religion and ethnicity (Al-Dajani et al, 2019;Barrett & Vershinina, 2017;Ozasir Kacar & Essers, 2019;Valdez, 2016).…”

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Trailing Wives and Constrained Agency Among Women Migrant Entrepreneurs: An Intersectional Perspective

Lassalle

Shaw

2021

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This article applies an intersectional lens to analyze the lived experience of 11 women migrant entrepreneurs based in the UK. We adopt structuration as our ontology to analyze intersectionality in entrepreneurship at the interplay of macro-level structures and micro-level agency, addressing tensions between determinism and subjectivism. Findings show that women migrant entrepreneurs are trailing wives who experience constrained agency which influences their entrepreneurial activities. By highlighting the specific issues faced by entrepreneurs situated at the intersection of the oppressive structures of patriarchy and outsidership, we advance the intersectional agenda in entrepreneurship research and policymaking.

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“…This includes the widened gender gaps in education and skills, less access to information and technology, increased vulnerability to gender-based violence, mobility constraints, and the larger domestic burdens which affect women's ability to start and run enterprise ventures (Beath et al, 2013). Such challenges are exacerbated by unique social and financial barriers and greater distances from relevant business networks which result in more women engaging in the informal sectors of the economy (Al-Dajani et al, 2019).…”

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Navigating Gaza’s conflict through women’s entrepreneurship

Althalathini

Al‐Dajani

Apostolopoulos

2020

IJGE

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the extent to which women’s entrepreneurship in conflict zones is an influential catalyst for liberalising traditionally conservative gender norms. This purpose is achieved by focussing on women entrepreneurs in Gaza and how they actively renegotiate their multiple gender roles and navigate the social order through entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts the interpretivist approach where individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 Palestinian women entrepreneurs operating in Gaza. Findings The findings demonstrate that the context of conflict itself and its impact on gender norms is a prime motivator for women to engage in entrepreneurial ventures. Some gender roles were constraining and other enabling women to initiate and sustain their ventures to contribute to their families’ well-being. In spite of the fact that the conflict context and entrepreneurship have contributed to enhancing the agency of women and their ability to navigate the conflict and its consequences, the gendered practices and assumptions are still used as guidance for legitimising women’s entrepreneurship. Originality/value This paper contributes to the gender and entrepreneurship literature by giving greater visibility to women entrepreneurs operating in conflict zones, which remain under researched. This paper also demonstrates how prolonged conflict instigates social and economic changes that can empower women entrepreneurs while simultaneously reinforcing gendered norms.

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Defying contextual embeddedness: evidence from displaced women entrepreneurs in Jordan

Cited by 63 publications

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Women's entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Feminist solidarity and political activism in disguise?

Women's entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Feminist solidarity and political activism in disguise?

Trailing Wives and Constrained Agency Among Women Migrant Entrepreneurs: An Intersectional Perspective

Navigating Gaza’s conflict through women’s entrepreneurship

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