Elkafrawi, N, Roos, A and Refai, D orcid.org/0000-0001-6805-7466 (2022) Contextualising Rural Entrepreneurship – A Strong Structuration Perspective on Gendered-Local Agency. International Small Business Journal, 40 (8). pp. 1019-1040. ISSN 0266-2426
Abstract
This article employs Stones’ (2005) Strong Structuration Theory (SST) to contextualise rural entrepreneurship. Through shadowing a single case study of a woman entrepreneur from rural Sweden, we propose gendered-local agency as operationalisation of active agency in practice. While SST positions active agency as a property of agents, we demonstrate it is as a property that is intertwined with both agents and structure. Simultaneously enabled and constrained, gendered-local agency itself becomes contextualised within gender-related and locality-related rural-specific interplay that modifies, preserves and challenges rural structures. The article contributes to the literature on contextualising entrepreneurship through a structuration lens by signifying gendered-local agency as a manifestation of rural-specific interplay between contexts as environments (out there) and context as constructed (through entrepreneurs). This conceptualisation proposes everyday entrepreneurship as a demonstration of agency in action, thus setting a foundation for exploring entrepreneurship through the context-specific agent-structure interplay in the rural context and others.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | agency; contextualisation; gender; gendered-local agency; locality; rural entrepreneurship; strong structuration theory |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Enterprise & Entrepreneurship (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2021 11:48 |
Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2023 20:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/02662426211069851 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:181456 |