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Female entrepreneurship as rupture: becoming a female entrepreneur in Sweden in neoliberal times

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  • Gabriele Griffin
  • Anneli Häyrén

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Neoliberal economies have fostered entrepreneurship through the restructuring and reduction of public sector employment, an emphasis on individual agency, and on becoming entrepreneur as a processual project of self. Female entrepreneurship as a situated phenomenon takes particular forms in this context. Drawing on empirical research on female entrepreneurs in Sweden, we suggest that becoming entrepreneur for our interviewees involves agency as a reaction formation to five phenomena: organisational restructuring processes, work conflicts in previous employment, sickness, family issues, and a view of life as a differently worked and lived project than encapsulated in conventional employment. Entrepreneuring here becomes rupture but also engagement with new entrepreneurial support structures, in this instance an all-female co-working hub. We challenge certain core assumptions about entrepreneurship, in particular the notion of entrepreneurs as young and solely future- and goal-oriented.

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  • Gabriele Griffin & Anneli Häyrén, 2022. "Female entrepreneurship as rupture: becoming a female entrepreneur in Sweden in neoliberal times," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 45(3), pages 300-313.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:45:y:2022:i:3:p:300-313
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