Defying contextual embeddedness : evidence from displaced women entrepreneurs in Jordan

Al-Dajani, Haya and Akbar, Hammad and Carter, Sara and Shaw, Eleanor (2019) Defying contextual embeddedness : evidence from displaced women entrepreneurs in Jordan. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 31 (3-4). pp. 198-212. ISSN 0898-5626 (https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2018.1551788)

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Abstract

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.

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Al-Dajani, Haya, Akbar, Hammad, Carter, Sara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5812-4354 and Shaw, Eleanor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6614-6729;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:63379
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    15 March 2019
    Published
    16 December 2018
    Published Online
    24 February 2018
    Accepted
    Notes:© 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
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:26 Feb 2018 12:51
    Last modified:17 Nov 2024 20:15
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/63379
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