A contextual analysis of entrepreneurial identity and experience: women entrepreneurs in Turkey

IF 3.3 1区经济学 Q2 BUSINESS

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Pub Date : 2023-03-12 DOI:10.1080/08985626.2023.2189314

Sibel Ozasir Kacar, Caroline Essers, Yvonne Benschop

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study aims to understand the complex mechanisms of entrepreneurship in context and explores the entrepreneurial identities and experiences of women entrepreneurs in relation to opportunity structures in Turkey. Turkey’s position at the boundary of Western and Middle Eastern geographies and cultures presents a compelling context for the study of women’s entrepreneurship. Drawing on life-story interviews with 11 women entrepreneurs, this study analyses social, political, and institutional opportunity structures in Turkey. The findings illustrate that women entrepreneurs engage in exaggerated perfectionism, strategic political distancing, and closed social positioning in relation to the opportunity structures in Turkey. This study contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by providing a more in-depth and nuanced understanding on the relationship between different opportunity structures and women entrepreneurs and herewith responding to the dominance of Western thinking and context on entrepreneurial experiences and identities.

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企业家身份和经验的背景分析:土耳其女企业家

本研究旨在了解创业的复杂机制，并探讨土耳其女性企业家的创业身份和经验与机会结构的关系。土耳其处于西方和中东地理和文化的边界，这为研究妇女创业提供了一个令人信服的背景。本研究通过对11位女企业家的访谈，分析了土耳其的社会、政治和制度机会结构。研究结果表明，与土耳其的机会结构相关，女性企业家表现出夸大的完美主义、战略性的政治距离和封闭的社会定位。本研究通过对不同机会结构与女性企业家之间的关系提供更深入和细致的理解，从而回应西方思想和背景在创业经历和身份方面的主导地位，为创业文献做出了贡献。

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期刊介绍： Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is unique in that it addresses the central factors in economic development - entrepreneurial vitality and innovation - as local and regional phenomena. It provides a multi-disciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship and small firm development and for those studying and developing the local and regional context in which entrepreneurs emerge, innovate and establish the new economic activities which drive economic growth and create new economic wealth and employment. The Journal focuses on the diverse and complex characteristics of local and regional economies which lead to entrepreneurial vitality and endow the large and small firms within them with international competitiveness.