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Item Metadata only Bridging the gap between resistance and power through agency: an empirical analysis of struggle by immigrant women entrepreneurs(Routledge, 2017-01-01) Yeroz, H.Item Metadata only Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurial Agency Formation(Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017-08-08) Yeroz, H.In this study, I offer a relational analysis of entrepreneurial agency formation by paying attention to the intersectionality of ethnicity, class and gender. The study emphasizes the importance of power relations in shaping the nature and degree of contextual (dis)embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurial agency. To that end, I focus on seventeen immigrant women entrepreneurs’ capital development strategy narratives in highlighting their struggles to gain power and defend their legitimate positions as a basis for forming differential degree of entrepreneurial agency within the socio-cultural context(s) of migration.Item Metadata only Entrepreneuring as multispecies composting(Routledge, 2024-02) Cnossen, Boukje; Byrne, Orla; Lassalle, Paul; Thompson, Neil Aaron; Verduijn, Karen; Yeroz, H.Item Metadata only Gender and Entrepreneurial Leadership: Insights from Pakistan(2016-08-05) Zehra, K.; Yeroz, H.Item Metadata only Gender, Ethnicity and Identity Work in the Family Business(Inderscience, 2015-02-19) Nordqvist, M.; Yeroz, H.We study how family business members form and manage their individual identities in a family business context, attending both to individual and societal circumstances. We depart from the understanding that the institutions of family and business are media by which diverse individual and social identities are mutually enacted, formed and continuously worked out. In order to bring in a combination of important individual and societal influences and processes, we draw a framework of an identity work with a particular focus on two specific habitats of meaning: gender and ethnicity. We show that formation and management of plural identities take a distinctive form, and that the two habitats of meaning – gender and ethnicity – prove to be fundamental in organising and performing in the family business context.Item Metadata only Innovation Management in Small and Medium Enterprises(Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, 2009-01-01) Yeroz, H.Item Open Access Manifestations of Social Class and Agency in Cultural Capital Development Processes: An Empirical Study of Turkish Migrant Women Entrepreneurs in Sweden(Emerald, 2019-08-13) Yeroz, H.Purpose While migrant women entrepreneurs (MWE) have been studied extensively through the lenses of gender and ethnicity, social class, as an axis of difference, received scant attention in entrepreneurship and migrant enterprise literature. The purpose of this paper is to make an intersectional analysis on migrant women’s cultural capital development processes on the basis of not only gender and ethnicity, but also class relations. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on empirical insights generated through listening to the life story narratives of 17 women entrepreneurs from Turkey. This is a small, yet diverse group consisting of women who followed their male kin who have migrated to Sweden in the late 1960s as a labour force, and of highly educated political refugee women who have migrated to Sweden following the military coup in Turkey in the 1980s. Findings By linking pre-migration and post-migration lives through Bourdieusian class analysis, the analysis yielded three distinct types of habitus of the women-intersectional identity constructed through interweaving of certain historical and cultural practices and conditions, labelled as women (immigrant) entrepreneurs, migrant (women) entrepreneurs and hybrid entrepreneurs. Life stories demonstrated the ways the MWE relationally defined, and in turn, contested being the right kind of entrepreneur drawing on their type of habitus and forms of cultural capital within the rules of the game in the specific context of entrepreneurship. Originality/value This study shows how MWE generate diverse, yet at times similar, but historically and culturally conditioned responses in actively shaping the relationship between entrepreneurial resources and context-specific structural powers and aspects. This way, the study calls for enriching the extant debate on migrant women entrepreneurship in two ways. First, it suggests that the strategic fit between resources and opportunities does not entail an automatic and arbitrary process. Rather, it takes an effort and contestation carried out by the entrepreneurial actors, among whom the individual entrepreneur is the primary actor. In particular, it draws attention to the conditions of possibilities for agency as a result of struggle and intersectional power relations: social class, ethnicity and gender, which provide a differential degree of powers to the individual entrepreneur.Item Metadata only People like us: experiencing difference in the working life of immigrant women(2013-02-10) Yeroz, H.; Wilinska, M.Purpose – The main aim of this article is to research the lived experience of difference. In this article, the authors are interested in the field of working life in the context of entrepreneurship among Turkish women in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on the stories of two immigrant women entrepreneurs who reflect upon their experience of working life in the context of migration to Sweden. These two stories provide a ground for a discussion regarding the responding to and re‐making of difference by individual subjects. The authors’ analysis is grounded in discursive approaches to narratives, particularly in the positioning analysis. Findings – In their discussion, the authors focus on the field of work to discuss the changing conditions that affect and are affected by particular constructions of difference in a migration context. In this, the authors present how difference is experienced and put into use differently by the individuals, even under very similar descriptive categories of difference. Originality/value – This article contributes with an experiential account of difference. It favors the notion of lived experiences within the intersecting structures in the analysis of complex interactions between structures, agents, times and spaces. It demonstrates the importance of attending to spatial, temporal, structural and subjective dimensions of difference.Item Metadata only The quest towards finding social in social entrepreneurship: Analyzing contradictory institutional logics at contexts of social entrepreneurship(ICSB World Conference Proceedings; Washington, 2011-06-01) Yeroz, H.Social entrepreneurship is a heterogeneous organizational field which on the one hand builds upon highly established institutions/organizational forms and on the other continuously bears new emergent combinations. Responding to this empirical opportunity, this study aims to explore the institutional context of social entrepreneurship. First the repertoires of organizing modes and manifested tensions among those are examined. Following, strategies taken by the actors and dimensions of agency are briefly analyzed. Finally, it is suggested that social entrepreneurship might better be seen as an 'institutional field under construction' where institutional work is going on at multiple sites and where different conceptions of agency take more visible charge at some works/sites.Item Metadata only Item Metadata only Resistance Against Power: An Empirical Study of Struggle with Immigrant Woman Entrepreneurs(Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015-01-01) Yeroz, H.In this paper we discuss the intertwined relations between power and resistance based on the concept of struggle. Drawing on life story narratives of seventeen Turkish origin immigrant woman entrepreneurs venturing in Sweden, we demonstrate the results of our research on how entrepreneurs respond to intersecting forces of gender, ethnicity and class through two main forms of agency, being agency of power and agency of intentions. We show that the entrepreneurs used certain tactics creatively to empower themselves to bring value and meaning to their lives.Item Metadata only Item Metadata only Where do roots and routes intersect in migrant women entrepreneur's life stories?(2014-06-21) Yeroz, H.