Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and the Value of Feminist Approaches to Understanding Them

Galloway, Laura; Kapasi, Isla; Sang, Katherine

doi:10.1111/jsbm.12178

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“…Authors have called for more nuanced analyses of entrepreneurial leadership and engagement based on critical management and social science approaches (Galloway et al . ; Harrison et al . ).…”

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“…Few studies, however, have tried to break away from this traditional conceptualization of a distinct and homogeneous female leadership style. Authors have called for more nuanced analyses of entrepreneurial leadership and engagement based on critical management and social science approaches (Galloway et al 2015;Harrison et al 2015). In this vein, the 36 H. Dean et al interaction between leadership, identity and gender relations has been explored (Hamilton 2014).…”

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Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions

Dean

Larsen

Ford

et al. 2017

Int J Management Reviews

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This critical review of the literature on female entrepreneurship problematizes the metanarrative of economic growth and the mechanisms through which it both operates and is maintained. Central to this is the axiomatic ‘underperformance hypothesis’, which states that ‘all else being equal, female entrepreneurs tend to be less successful than their male counterparts in terms of conventional economic performance measures’ (Du Rietz and Henrekson (2000, p. 1). As an axiom, the truth of the ‘underperformance hypothesis’ is taken for granted, and thus it invisibly serves as a starting point, delimiter and interpretive lens for analysis in this field. While it remains invisible, the hypothesis will continue to reproduce the differences between male and female entrepreneurs, and thus the subordination of women to men in the realm of entrepreneurship. The review illustrates how, by associating females with underperformance, the persistent influence of the metanarrative of economic growth has been masked and the image of the female entrepreneur as problematic and inferior to her male counterpart has been reinforced. The authors argue that a postmodern feminist epistemology will destabilize both the metanarrative of economic growth, and the axiomatic ‘underperformance hypothesis’ it supports, thus opening up space for a heterogeneous understanding of (female) entrepreneurship. By questioning accepted knowledge about female entrepreneurs, the review sets the platform for the exploration of new research questions and a broad agenda for future research. Such an agenda is crucial in order to move future research beyond the pervasive influence of the metanarrative of economic growth and its attendant underperformance hypothesis.

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Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions

Dean

Larsen

Ford

et al. 2017

Int J Management Reviews

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“…In contrast to former work that uses mixed samples with just a minor percentage of women, we focus our approach purely on women. As suggested in Ahl's work, we seek to capture a richer picture of women entrepreneurship and to use women non-entrepreneurs as a control group, instead of consolidating the masculine interpretation of entrepreneurship (Galloway et al 2015;Gupta et al 2008Gupta et al , 2009Holmquist and Carter 2009;Jennings and Brush 2013).…”

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Are women graduates jacquelines-of-all-trades? Challenging Lazear’s view on entrepreneurship

2016

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This study challenges the basic reasoning behind Lazear's theory on entrepreneurship (2005). Based on the key motive of maximizing one's lifetime income, Lazear posits that individuals with a balanced set of skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed. His ''Jack-of-all-trades'' hypothesis presumes that entrepreneurs need sufficient knowledge in a variety of areas to succeed, while paid employees benefit from being specialists in a certain area demanded by the labor market. Because most women-led businesses are neither based on the motive of making money nor are they growth oriented, we argue that maximizing their lifetime income is not the main motivation of many women to start a business. However, we argue that Lazear's theory can be extended to motivations that are mostly stated for women entrepreneurs as well. We apply it to a specific representative sample of 1384 women graduates in Germany and test our hypothesis with logit regression. A dichotomized measure indicating whether a women graduate was self-employed (n = 706) or not (n = 678) served as the dependent variable. Our results widely confirm Lazear's assumption for women graduates who run relatively small businesses in terms of sales and employment: professional training, balanced industry experience, and balanced entrepreneurship-based self-efficacy increase the probability of being self-employed. Solo self-employed tend to have balanced industry experience more often than those being in a team or having employees. Lazear's theory has male as the norm, and as such, does not readily apply to the case of women-but could and should be extended to women's specifics.

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“…In the first of our two selected conceptual papers, Galloway, Kapasi, and Sang () unpack extant conceptualizations of entrepreneurship and leadership, with specific reference to the limiting effect that currently gendered interpretations have on our understanding of these important social and economic phenomena. In particular, the authors propose that the performativity proposition within feminist theory could help develop understanding of both entrepreneurship and leadership.…”

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Gender: Exploring Theory and Practice in Global Contexts

Henry¹,

Foss

Fayolle

et al. 2015

Journal of Small Business Management

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This article reflects on extant scholarship on entrepreneurial leadership and gender, as published in both the Journal of Small Business Management and elsewhere. As such, it lays the foundation for the special issue, and contributes to current knowledge in the field. Our selected papers—summarized and critiqued in this article—collectively offer a contemporary view of women's entrepreneurial leadership at the global level that should usefully contribute to extending scholarly debates. In this regard, we highlight the diversity and complexity of women's entrepreneurial leadership, and demonstrate that it is both economically and contextually embedded, worthy of further scholarly attention.

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Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and the Value of Feminist Approaches to Understanding Them

Cited by 70 publications

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Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions

Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions

Are women graduates jacquelines-of-all-trades? Challenging Lazear’s view on entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Leadership and Gender: Exploring Theory and Practice in Global Contexts

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