Family ties: Migrant female business owners doing identity work on the public–private divide
| Autor: | Hans Doorewaard, Yvonne Benschop, Caroline Essers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural identity
business.industry Strategy and Management Family support General Social Sciences Identity (social science) Gender studies Small business Social identity approach Public domain Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Management of Technology and Innovation Normative Sociology business Identity formation |
| Zdroj: | Human Relations. 66:1645-1665 |
| ISSN: | 1741-282X 0018-7267 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0018726713486820 |
| Popis: | This article contributes to the literature on identity work and small business studies, by identifying various forms of identity work of female business owners of Turkish and Moroccan descent in the Netherlands, in relation to two sets of identity regulations stemming from their families, regarding the norms of ‘being a good woman’ and ‘dealing with family support’. Identity work refers to the way subjects form, maintain, strengthen or revise constructions of self in relation to the claims and demands issued on them. Our analysis, which is based on McAdams’s life-narrative approach, demonstrates in detail how social actors perform identity work in continuous interplay with their family environment when powerful, multiple, and even contradictory normative demands are made on those identities. We have demonstrated how these migrant female business owners use various cultural repertoires to negotiate and manipulate the family norms and values in order to seek and hold their position in the public domain effectively. Our research has revealed a variety of identity work manifestations, all strategically maneuvering between conflict and compliance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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