Living the Dream? Assessing the "Entrepreneurship as Emancipation" Perspective in a Developed Region

This paper seeks to stimulate additional research on the entrepreneurship–as–emancipation perspective. We extend extant work by specifying the practices within developed regions from which entrepreneurs arguably pursue liberation and then developing hypotheses pertaining to the incidence, determinan...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Entrepreneurship theory and practice 2016-01, Vol.40 (1), p.81-110
Main Authors: Jennings, Jennifer E., Jennings, P. Devereaux, Sharifian, Manely
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Management
Organization theory
Organizational change
Studies
Women owned businesses
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This paper seeks to stimulate additional research on the entrepreneurship–as–emancipation perspective. We extend extant work by specifying the practices within developed regions from which entrepreneurs arguably pursue liberation and then developing hypotheses pertaining to the incidence, determinants, and outcomes associated with departure from such norms. Our survey findings offer evidence to question not only the prevalence with which entrepreneurs in such contexts deviate from the status quo, but also the characteristics of those who enact greater departure. On average, women are not more likely to do so; moreover, they tend to be less satisfied overall when they do deviate highly.
ISSN:1042-2587
1540-6520
DOI:10.1111/etap.12106