Unexpected Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurs with disabilities’ embodied identity struggles

Jammaers, Eline;Zanoni, Patrizia
(2018) The 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management — Location: Chicago, USA (10.August.2018)

Files

AOM2018BestePaperProceedings_UnexpectedEntrepreneurs.pdf
  • Closed Access
  • Adobe PDF
  • 500.99 KB
Request a copy

Details

Authors
  • Jammaers, Elineorcid-logoUCLouvain
    Author
  • Zanoni, PatriziaUniversity of Hasselt, Belgium
    Author
Abstract
This study investigates how entrepreneurs with physical disabilities deal, in their identity work, with the contradiction between a pervasive neoliberal discourse of the entrepreneur as an unencumbered individual and an equally pervasive discourse of disability precisely as an encumbered body. Drawing on in-depth interviews, four key discursive practices used by speakers to construct an entrepreneurial identity were identified: the archetypical entrepreneur, the unique entrepreneur, the collective entrepreneur, and the entrepreneur by default.
Affiliations

Citations

  • APA
  • Chicago
  • FWB

Jammaers, E., & Zanoni, P. (2018). Unexpected Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurs with disabilities’ embodied identity struggles. Proceedings / Academy of Management, 2018(1), 13887. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/125356 (Original work published 2018)