Choosing mothering and entrepreneurship: a relational career-life process

IF 3.1 Q2 BUSINESS

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2020-04-30 DOI:10.1108/ijge-08-2019-0130

Rebecca Breen, A. Leung

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Abstract

To date, research on women’s entrepreneurship has largely been focused on how gender roles may constrain the venture process, or cause role conflicts for women pursuing an entrepreneurial career. While acknowledging the validity of such perspectives, the purpose of this paper is to apply a broader perspective of career-life development, answering the call for a more nuanced and embedded understanding of an entrepreneurial career.,This paper presents a constructionist, relational analysis of the experiences of 13 Canadian women who started their business following the life transition to motherhood. Interview data were coded using grounded theory methods.,The conceptual model captures the influence of the mothering role in shaping the transition into entrepreneurship, illuminating the reciprocal relational processes of context, choice and outcomes in the career-life development of mother entrepreneurs.,While this is a small sample, and findings are not generalizable, application of relational theory of career-life offers implications for supporting women’s transition to, and continued success in, entrepreneurship.,Career theory offers practical application to the management of mother entrepreneurs’ career-life development.,To date, there has been limited application of career theory to entrepreneurship, particularly to understanding the gendered, relational career-life experiences of mother entrepreneurs.

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选择母亲和创业:一个关系的职业生活过程

迄今为止，对女性创业的研究主要集中在性别角色如何约束创业过程，或导致追求创业生涯的女性角色冲突。在承认这些观点的有效性的同时，本文的目的是应用更广泛的职业生涯发展视角，回应对创业生涯更细致、更深入理解的呼吁。，本文对13名加拿大女性的经历进行了建构主义的关系分析，这些女性在人生转变为母亲后开始创业。访谈数据采用扎根理论方法进行编码。，该概念模型捕捉了母亲角色在塑造向创业转变中的影响，阐明了母亲企业家职业生涯发展中的背景、选择和结果的相互关系过程。，虽然这是一个小样本，研究结果不可推广，但职业生活关系理论的应用为支持女性向创业过渡并继续取得成功提供了启示。，职业理论为母亲企业家的职业生涯发展管理提供了实际应用。，迄今为止，职业理论在创业方面的应用有限，特别是在理解母亲企业家的性别关系职业生活经历方面。

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International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship BUSINESS-

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7.40

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期刊介绍： Launched in 2009, the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (IJGE) aims to facilitate the natural evolution of the field of gender and entrepreneurship by drawing together the very best research contributions from around the world. The journal seeks to: -Provide a dedicated publication outlet for high calibre, international research of interest to scholars, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the field of gender and entrepreneurship -Offer a unique perspective on the practice of gender and entrepreneurship by including sections dedicated to practitioner and policy content -Support a more consistent global approach to the presentation of research in the field -Platform the work of dynamic young researchers and those who are in a position to offer new perspectives on this particular research area -Enable those active in the area as researchers, educators, trainers, practitioners, support personnel and policy makers to keep up to date with the field on an international level. The coverage of the journal includes, but is not limited to: Entrepreneurship, Female/Women’s entrepreneurship , Business, Management, Strategy, Gender, Economics, Internationalization, Marketing.