A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Entrepreneurial Masculinity: A Fatherhood Perspective
Authors: Hytti Ulla, Karhunen Päivi, Radu-Lefebvre Miruna
Publisher: Sage
Publication year: 2023
Journal: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587231155863
Web address : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10422587231155863
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/178767074
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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