Entrepreneurial Practice in Pregnancy: A Framework and Research Agenda (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

We outline a feminist critical realist framework for conceptualising and researching entrepreneurial practice in pregnancy and hope this will inspire a global programme of empirical research regarding embodied contexts, practices and outcomes. We outline a critical realist ontology to propose a framework for researching entrepreneur pregnancy that relies on Archer’s morphogenetic cycle of interaction between the natural body, laminated systems of socio-cultural contexts and a reflexive agent. Our ontology emphasises that entrepreneurs are differently positioned within emergent, open systems; while generative mechanisms in the body and context are real they create variable events for differently positioned women. The multi-level system of contexts we propose are: the global systems of pro-masculine capitalism; meso-level institutions that mediate, subvert or enhance pro-masculine capitalism, and; practice relations in markets, businesses and families. We reveal relations hitherto hid...

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