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Women entrepreneurs negotiating identities in liminal digital spaces

Kelly, Gráinne orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-8112-3015 and McAdam, Maura orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2203-5485 (2022) Women entrepreneurs negotiating identities in liminal digital spaces. Entrepreneurship Theory And Practice . ISSN 1042-2587

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Our article conceptualizes the experiences of women entrepreneurs through exploring how they negotiate an entrepreneurial identity in liminal digital spaces. Providing empirically textured narrative portraits of women’s experience of transitioning from employment to a digital entrepreneurial career, this article counters the ascendant rhetoric celebrating the democratizing promise of digital technologies. We present a more critical analysis of the experience of self-doubt and existential precarity including the ways in which gender norms permeate the intimate structures of women entrepreneurs’ everyday lives and selves. We also develop the concept of liminality by illustrating how women digital entrepreneurs cope with liminality through identity play and identity work.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:identity work; identity play; liminality; women digital entrepreneurship
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
Publisher:SAGE Publications
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221115363
Copyright Information:© 2022 The Authors
ID Code:28172
Deposited On:20 Mar 2023 14:01 by Maura Mcadam. Last Modified 20 Mar 2023 14:01
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