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