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Questioning dominant entrepreneurship assumptions

The aim of this paper was to shake up the entrepreneurship ideal by problematizing what seems to have become naturalized, i.e. the ideologized tale of optimism associated with entrepreneurship. We have chosen a particular group of entrepreneurs (one usually and typically excluded in not only popular...

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Main Author: Verduijn, Karen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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520 |a The aim of this paper was to shake up the entrepreneurship ideal by problematizing what seems to have become naturalized, i.e. the ideologized tale of optimism associated with entrepreneurship. We have chosen a particular group of entrepreneurs (one usually and typically excluded in not only popular discourse but also in mainstream entrepreneurship literature), and we have chosen a typical Western society, one that firmly ascribes to neoliberal ideas. We have brought into play Dutch institutional stories with those of female ethnic entrepreneurs to see if these institutions sustain the presupposed view and to find out how these women consequently  
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650 |a Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship 
650 |a Deconstruction 
650 |a Discourse 
650 |a Entrepreneurial Myth 
650 |a Entrepreneurship 
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