Relational practices and reflexivity: Exploring the responses of women entrepreneurs to changing household dynamics

Meliou, Elina and Edwards, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6034-1948 2018. Relational practices and reflexivity: Exploring the responses of women entrepreneurs to changing household dynamics. International Small Business Journal 36 (2) , pp. 149-168. 10.1177/0266242617724858

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Additional Information:	Released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND)
Publisher:	SAGE
ISSN:	0266-2426
Funders:	British Academy/Leverhulme
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 July 2017
Date of Acceptance:	15 July 2017
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2023 02:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/102684

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