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Entrepreneurial Masculinity: A Fatherhood Perspective




AuthorsHytti Ulla, Karhunen Päivi, Radu-Lefebvre Miruna

PublisherSage

Publication year2023

JournalEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1177/10422587231155863

Web address https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10422587231155863

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/178767074


Abstract

This article investigates how fatherhood (or the prospect thereof) shapes entrepreneurial masculinities. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory, we analyze 22 life story interviews with Finnish men technology founders and identify three entrepreneurial masculinities enacted by men to accommodate concurrent normative ideals at the intersection of work and family life. These entrepreneurial masculinities alternatively maintain, restructure, and resist entrepreneurial and parental hegemonic masculinities and are subject to generational and situational scripts. We contribute to the gender and entrepreneurship literature by revealing that the neoliberal new father discourse blurs hegemonic masculinities leading entrepreneurial masculinities to emerge as hybrid hegemonic masculinities.


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