TY - JOUR
T1 - Defying contextual embeddedness
T2 - evidence from displaced women entrepreneurs in Jordan
AU - Al-Dajani, Haya
AU - Akbar, Hammad
AU - Carter, Sara
AU - Shaw, Eleanor
N1 - © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Al-Dajani, H., Akbar, H., Carter, S., & Shaw, E. (2018). Defying contextual embeddedness: evidence from displaced women entrepreneurs in Jordan. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 31(3–4), 198–212. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2018.1551788
PY - 2019/3/15
Y1 - 2019/3/15
N2 - Although entrepreneurial practices and processes are evolving and changing globally, models of entrepreneurship remain masculinised, embedded in advanced economies and associated with notions of individual agency, heroism and control. Rarely is defiance considered. In this paper, we explore the defiance practices of displaced women operating in the Jordanian patriarchal economy and society and consider how this enabled their nurturing of entrepreneurship. Indeed, we argue that socially excluded women actually defy their contextual embeddedness through their entrepreneurial activities. In so doing, we respond to calls for research that explores the contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurship, and contribute to shifting the focus towards the 'more silent feminine end of the entrepreneurial process' (Bird and Brush 2002, 57). We consider the defiance of invisible displaced women entrepreneurs operating in the under-researched context of Jordan. Longitudinal, ethnographic investigation revealed the creation of a secret production network led by, and for, displaced women. This paper focuses on the five founders of this network, which they established to mobilise and manage the production of traditional crafts and, by so doing, to defy the stifling limitations imposed by their restrictive contractors, community and family members.
AB - Although entrepreneurial practices and processes are evolving and changing globally, models of entrepreneurship remain masculinised, embedded in advanced economies and associated with notions of individual agency, heroism and control. Rarely is defiance considered. In this paper, we explore the defiance practices of displaced women operating in the Jordanian patriarchal economy and society and consider how this enabled their nurturing of entrepreneurship. Indeed, we argue that socially excluded women actually defy their contextual embeddedness through their entrepreneurial activities. In so doing, we respond to calls for research that explores the contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurship, and contribute to shifting the focus towards the 'more silent feminine end of the entrepreneurial process' (Bird and Brush 2002, 57). We consider the defiance of invisible displaced women entrepreneurs operating in the under-researched context of Jordan. Longitudinal, ethnographic investigation revealed the creation of a secret production network led by, and for, displaced women. This paper focuses on the five founders of this network, which they established to mobilise and manage the production of traditional crafts and, by so doing, to defy the stifling limitations imposed by their restrictive contractors, community and family members.
KW - women's entrepreneurship
KW - defiance
KW - displaced women
KW - contextual embeddedness
KW - secret networks
KW - Jordan
KW - traditional crafts
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tepn20/current
U2 - 10.1080/08985626.2018.1551788
DO - 10.1080/08985626.2018.1551788
M3 - Article
SN - 0898-5626
VL - 31
SP - 198
EP - 212
JO - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
JF - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
IS - 3-4
ER -