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

Galloway, Laura; Kapasi, Isla; Sang, Katherine

Abstract

Entrepreneurship research principally focuses on business growth. This focus valorizes the masculine and marginalizes other interpretations. Consequently, entrepreneurship is restricted to
a phenomenon that is rare in the diverse business world. The leadership literature proposes that entrepreneurship may not be as masculine as we assume anyway. Our understanding of entrepreneurship needs development at the conceptual level. We argue that performativity, as described in feminist theory, can contribute to how we interpret entrepreneurship and that this might inform both the entrepreneurship and leadership literatures to afford us better understanding of what we might mean by “entrepreneurial leadership.”

Citation

Galloway, L., Kapasi, I., & Sang, K. (2015). Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and the Value of Feminist Approaches to Understanding Them. Journal of Small Business Management, 53(3), 683-692. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12178

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 17, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Apr 17, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-07
• Deposit Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 18, 2017
• Print ISSN: 0047-2778
• Electronic ISSN: 1540-627X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 683-692
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12178
• Keywords: Entrepreneurship research; leadership; entrepreneurship
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9781