Gender and entrepreneurship: Advancing debate and challenging myths; exploring the mystery of the under-performing female entrepreneur
Gender and entrepreneurship: Advancing debate and challenging myths; exploring the mystery of the under-performing female entrepreneur
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DOI：
10.1108/13552551311299288
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
McAdam, Maura
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作者：
Marlow, Susan;McAdam, Maura
目的-妇女拥有的企业经常被描述为业绩不佳，因为大多数企业规模小，处于边缘地位。作者对这种描述提出异议;在本文中，有人认为，这种性能配置文件反映了大多数小企业的约束性能。妇女拥有的公司业绩不佳的说法反映了创业话语中的性别偏见，女性气质和赤字被认为是共同的。此外，由于在男性规范和优越的背景下，人们预期女性会处于弱势，因此女性拥有的公司预期业绩会不佳。因此，委员会认为，本文的目的是批判性地评估性别和企业绩效之间的关联，这表明这种批评对我们更广泛地理解企业行为的发展具有影响。设计/方法/途径-这是一个概念性的研究说明，探讨了性别背景下的绩效和绩效不佳的概念。经济定位确保妇女拥有的企业表现出有限的业绩，但这并不等同于业绩不佳。此外，委员会认为，根深蒂固的认识论性别偏见持续描绘妇女作为有缺陷的企业家，尽管缺乏令人信服的数据关于基本的性别差异之间的表现，男性和女性entrepreneurs.Research限制/影响-该文件表明，更大的反身性批评是呼吁关于认识论假设，塑造了目前的研究议程。独创性/价值-这一讨论对性别、绩效和创业之间的关联进行了批判性分析。
Purpose - Women-owned businesses are frequently described as under-performing in that the majority remain small and marginal. The authors dispute this description; within this paper, it is argued that such performance profiles reflect the constrained performance of most small firms. The assertion that women owned firms under-perform reflects a gendered bias within the entrepreneurial discourse where femininity and deficit are deemed coterminous. In addition, women-owned firms are expected to under-perform given expectations of female weakness in the context of male normativity and superiority. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the association between gender and business performance suggesting that this critique has implications for the broader development of our understanding of entrepreneuring behaviours.Design/methodology/approach - This is a conceptual research note which explores the notion of performance and under-performance in the context of gender.Findings - It is argued that gendered socio-economic positioning ensures that women-owned businesses demonstrate constrained performance but this is not synonymous with under-performance. Furthermore, ingrained epistemological gendered biases persist which portray women as flawed entrepreneurs despite the absence of convincing data regarding essential gendered differences between the performance of male and female entrepreneurs.Research limitations/implications - The paper suggests that far greater reflexive criticism is called for regarding epistemological assumptions which shape the current research agenda.Originality/value - This discussion develops a critical analysis of the association between gender, performance and entrepreneuring.