期刊
HUMAN RELATIONS
卷 70, 期 3, 页码 286-311出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0018726716650730
关键词
digital; digital enterprise; entrepreneurship; gender; internet; intersectionality; online business; online entrepreneurship; whitewashing; women
资金
- PhD studentship at Nottingham University Business School, the Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for International Research Excellence
This article critically analyses the manner in which intersectionality and related social positionality shape digital enterprise activities. Despite popular claims of meritocratic opportunity enactment within traditional forms of entrepreneurship, ascribed social characteristics intersect to influence the realization of entrepreneurial potential. However, it is purported that the emerging field of digital entrepreneurship may act as a great leveller' owing to perceived lower barriers to entry, disembodiment of the entrepreneurial actor and the absence of visible markers of disadvantage online. Using an interpretivist approach, we analyse empirical evidence that reveals how the privileges and disadvantages arising from intersecting social positions of gender, race and class status are experienced by UK women digital entrepreneurs. This analysis challenges the notion that the internet is a neutral platform for entrepreneurship and supports our thesis that offline inequality, in the form of marked bodies, social positionality and associated resource constraints, is produced and reproduced in the online environment.
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