Contextualising rural entrepreneurship – A strong structuration perspective on gendered-local agency

IF 7.1 2区管理学 Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1177/02662426211069851

Nermin Elkafrawi, Annie Roos, D. Refai

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Abstract

This article employs Stones’ (2005) Strong Structuration Theory (SST) to contextualise rural entrepreneurship. Through shadowing a single case study of a woman entrepreneur from rural Sweden, we propose gendered-local agency as operationalisation of active agency in practice. While SST positions active agency as a property of agents, we demonstrate it is as a property that is intertwined with both agents and structure. Simultaneously enabled and constrained, gendered-local agency itself becomes contextualised within gender-related and locality-related rural-specific interplay that modifies, preserves and challenges rural structures. The article contributes to the literature on contextualising entrepreneurship through a structuration lens by signifying gendered-local agency as a manifestation of rural-specific interplay between contexts as environments (out there) and context as constructed (through entrepreneurs). This conceptualisation proposes everyday entrepreneurship as a demonstration of agency in action, thus setting a foundation for exploring entrepreneurship through the context-specific agent-structure interplay in the rural context and others.

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农村创业的语境化——性别-地方机构的强结构视角

本文运用斯通(2005)的强结构理论(SST)对农村创业进行语境分析。通过对瑞典农村女企业家的单一案例研究，我们提出了性别-地方机构作为积极机构在实践中的运作化。虽然SST将主动代理定位为代理的属性，但我们证明了它是与代理和结构交织在一起的属性。性别地方机构本身在与性别有关和与地方有关的农村具体相互作用的背景下受到了限制，这种相互作用改变、保护和挑战了农村结构。这篇文章通过将性别-地方代理视为环境(在那里)和环境(通过企业家)之间的具体相互作用的表现，为通过结构视角将企业家精神情境化的文献做出了贡献。这一概念提出，日常创业是行动中的代理的一种示范，从而为通过农村环境和其他环境中特定情境的代理-结构相互作用来探索创业奠定了基础。

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