‘Involuntary exit for personal reasons’ – A gendered critique of the business exit decision

IF 7.1 2区 管理学 Q1 Business, Management and Accounting
Janine Swail, Susan Marlow
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Women are more likely to exit from entrepreneurship for personal reasons; such exits are deemed uneventful and voluntary. We critically evaluate such assumptions by adopting a gendered critique to unpack the nature of such personal reasons arguing that they largely relate to the stress of accommodating incompatible caring/domestic and entrepreneurial labour demands. This, we argue, leads to forced voluntarism which, for many women, instigates conflicting notions of regret, relief and resentment. To explore these arguments, we draw upon in-depth interviews with 16 United Kingdom women entrepreneurs who had voluntarily exited from their ventures citing personal reasons. The evidence describes how women made sense of the decision-making process to exit from entrepreneurship questioning the voluntary nature of the exit decision. We conclude by noting how once again, gendered assumptions conceal the contradictory demands women encounter when trying to reconcile the needs of the household and of their ventures analysing the implications this has for how exit decisions are categorised and the false picture this presents of alleged voluntarism.
因个人原因非自愿退出"--对企业退出决策的性别批判
女性更有可能因个人原因退出创业;这种退出被认为是平淡和自愿的。我们对这种假设进行了批判性评估,采用了性别批判的方法来解读这种个人原因的性质,认为这些个人原因在很大程度上与照顾/家务与创业劳动需求不相容所带来的压力有关。我们认为,这导致了被迫自愿,对许多妇女来说,这引发了后悔、解脱和怨恨等相互矛盾的观念。为了探讨这些论点,我们对 16 位英国女企业家进行了深入访谈,她们都是因个人原因而自愿退出企业的。这些证据描述了女性如何理解退出创业的决策过程,质疑退出决定的自愿性质。最后,我们指出,性别假设再次掩盖了妇女在努力兼顾家庭需求和企业需求时所遇到的矛盾需求,并分析了这对退出决定的分类方式以及这种所谓的自愿性所呈现的虚假图景的影响。
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期刊介绍: The International Small Business Journal (ISBJ) is a leading peer-reviewed journal renowned for publishing high-quality original research papers on small business and entrepreneurship. It prioritizes research-based studies that contribute to theory development, critical understanding, and policy formulation related to small firms. ISBJ papers encompass theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies from various disciplines and perspectives, aiming for research excellence in the field. The journal provides a critical forum for world-class contributions analyzing entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behavior. This refereed journal is valuable to academics, policymakers, analysts, government and business officials, small business representative bodies, and support agencies seeking to gain insights into the sector, trade, business institutions, and related matters.
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