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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953215703321

Autore

Bruni Attila <1972->

Titolo

Gender and entrepreneurship : an ethnographic approach / / Attila Bruni, Silvia Gherardi and Barbara Poggio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

9781134262885

1134262884

9781134262892

1134262892

9780429234743

0429234740

9781280155949

1280155949

9780203698891

0203698894

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Management, organizations and society

Classificazione

85.00

Altri autori (Persone)

GherardiSilvia

PoggioBarbara <1967->

Disciplina

306.3/42

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship - Social aspects

Sex role

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 How a gender approach to entrepreneurship differs from the study of women entrepreneurs; 2 Gender as a social practice entrepreneurship as a form of masculinity a theoretical framework; 3 Doing and saying gender a methodological framework; 4 Company ethnographies the gendering of entrepreneurship and the enterprising of gender; 5 Gender and entrepreneurship as discursive practices; 6  Doing family while doing gender and business concluding remarks; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Entrepreneurship can be read as a cultural and economic phenomenon. In recent times, gender has become an increasing influence on entrepreneurship. This groundbreaking new study considers both



gender and entrepreneurship as symbolic forms, looking at their diverse patterns and social representation. Presenting an ethnographic study of the gender structuring of entrepreneurship, this work employs three strategies:A critical survey of gender studies which argues that entrepreneurship is a cultural model of masculinity that obstructs the expression of other models;'Reflexive' ethnographic