All Outputs (17)

A nudge in the right direction? gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs (2024)
Journal Article

This article critically analyzes the influence of gendered ascriptions and assumptions upon support offered by female business incubation (BI) managers to female STEM entrepreneurs. We draw upon the concept of nudges to illustrate how female managers... Read More about A nudge in the right direction? gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs.

Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment (2024)
Journal Article

This article explains entrepreneurial activity patterns in the United Kingdom labour market using theories of racial capitalism and intersectional feminism. Using UK Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey data 2018–2019 and employing prob... Read More about Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment.

A ‘deviant men’ theory of business expectations in nascent entrepreneurs (2022)
Journal Article

In this article, we develop a gendered analysis of the expectations of venture growth by nascent entrepreneurs. Male entrepreneurs are notably overrepresented in the small cohort of firms that attain growth; to explore this phenomenon, we draw upon e... Read More about A ‘deviant men’ theory of business expectations in nascent entrepreneurs.

The Relationship Between Gender and Promotion Over the Business Cycle: Does Firm Size Matter? (2021)
Journal Article

This paper offers a more nuanced analysis of employee promotion decisions; specifically, how they are affected by firm size, gender and stages within the business cycle. Drawing on data from Portugal, we find that during times of adverse macroeconomi... Read More about The Relationship Between Gender and Promotion Over the Business Cycle: Does Firm Size Matter?.

A Gendered Life Course Explanation of the Exit Decision in the Context of Household Dynamics (2020)
Journal Article

Using a gendered household analysis, we explore the extent to which operating a business upon a flexible basis at specific times in the life course impacts upon an entrepreneur's exit from their business. Drawing upon UK data and a discrete-time even... Read More about A Gendered Life Course Explanation of the Exit Decision in the Context of Household Dynamics.

Is Time Up for The Hero Male Entrepreneur? A Review of Enterprise Discourse and its Effects (2020)
Report

The contemporary stereotypical entrepreneur is typically characterised as a middle-class, middle-aged, white male (McAdam, 2012) leading a high-growth, high turnover enterprise. In reality, most UK businesses are home based, micro or small firms owne... Read More about Is Time Up for The Hero Male Entrepreneur? A Review of Enterprise Discourse and its Effects.

Paws for thought? analysing how prevailing masculinities constrain career progression for UK women veterinary surgeons (2019)
Journal Article

The structure of veterinary medicine is changing rapidly from that of traditional small privately owned practices to one of corporate franchises, often positioned within retail outlets. Accompanying this trend has been the increasing presence of wome... Read More about Paws for thought? analysing how prevailing masculinities constrain career progression for UK women veterinary surgeons.

Exploring the false promise of entrepreneurship through a postfeminist critique of the enterprise policy discourse in Sweden and the UK (2019)
Journal Article

Exploring the false promise of entrepreneurship through a postfeminist critique of the enterprise policy discourse in Sweden and the UK. Abstract Contemporary theories of neoliberalism and entrepreneurship are entwined; both hinge upon the use of age... Read More about Exploring the false promise of entrepreneurship through a postfeminist critique of the enterprise policy discourse in Sweden and the UK.

Gender and bank lending after the global financial crisis: are women entrepreneurs safer bets? (2019)
Journal Article

Using gender as a theoretical framework, we analyse the dynamics of bank lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Using six waves of the SME Finance Monitor survey, we apply a formal Oa... Read More about Gender and bank lending after the global financial crisis: are women entrepreneurs safer bets?.

Gendering entrepreneurial behaviour (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter critically evaluates the influence of gendered ascriptions upon entrepreneurial behaviour. Reflecting trends within the normative critique of gender and entrepreneurship focused upon women, we commence by reviewing the historical progres... Read More about Gendering entrepreneurial behaviour.

Emancipation through digital entrepreneurship: a critical realist analysis (2018)
Journal Article

Digital entrepreneurship is presented in popular discourse as a means to empowerment and greater economic participation for under-resourced and socially marginalised people. However, this emancipatory rhetoric relies on a flat ontology that does not... Read More about Emancipation through digital entrepreneurship: a critical realist analysis.

'Embrace the masculine; attenuate the feminine': gender, identity work and entrepreneurial legitimation in the nascent context (2017)
Journal Article

This paper critically analyses how gender bias impacts upon women’s efforts to legitimate nascent ventures. Given the importance of founder identity as a proxy for entrepreneurial legitimacy at nascency, we explore the identity work women undertake w... Read More about 'Embrace the masculine; attenuate the feminine': gender, identity work and entrepreneurial legitimation in the nascent context.

Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research? (2017)
Journal Article

This article develops a critique of contemporary approaches to analysing the impact of gender upon entrepreneurial propensity and activity. Since the 1990s, increasing attention has been afforded to the influence of gender upon women’s entrepreneuria... Read More about Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?.

Advancing gendered analyses of entrepreneurship: a critical exploration of entrepreneurial activity among gay men and lesbian women (2017)
Journal Article

This paper advances contemporary gendered analyses of entrepreneurial activity by exploring self-employment amongst gay men and lesbian women. Within current entrepreneurial debate, heterosexual women have become the visible embodiment of the gendere... Read More about Advancing gendered analyses of entrepreneurship: a critical exploration of entrepreneurial activity among gay men and lesbian women.

Incubation or induction?: gendered identity work in the context of technology business incubation (2015)
Journal Article

Gender, risk and finance: why can't a woman be more like a man? (2014)
Journal Article

Whilst acknowledging that the influence of gender upon women's business ownership is now included as a legitimate addition to the contemporary entrepreneurship research agenda, we question the assumptions which frame this inclusion. We argue that whi... Read More about Gender, risk and finance: why can't a woman be more like a man?.

Encouraging women's entrepreneurship in the sciences: Women in veterinary medicine (2010)
Book Chapter

Purpose – The chapter aims to explore women's entrepreneurship in the sciences, specifically, veterinary medicine, and to highlight future potential. Methodology/approach – Following a review of the extant literature, the chapter employs a single... Read More about Encouraging women's entrepreneurship in the sciences: Women in veterinary medicine.