Categorising and labelling entrepreneurs : Business support organisations constructing the Other through prefixes of ethnicity and immigrantship
Författare
Summary, in English
This article demonstrates how Swedish support organisations approach and target immigrant entrepreneurs in terms of categorisation and labelling. In their strategic positioning, and as a result of framing and communicating specific target groups for their activities, organisations simultaneously produce and reproduce categories of clients. We argue that despite its emancipatory intent, the process of categorisation runs the risk of reproducing an inferior Other. Adding prefixes in labelling entrepreneurs may replicate the societal hierarchies that business support initiatives were designed to counteract. This article questions the basis of business support for minority entrepreneurs and is a contribution to wider debates concerned with exposing the constructed nature of entrepreneurship.
Publiceringsår
2016-05
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
242-260
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Small Business Journal
Volym
34
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Business Administration
Nyckelord
- business support
- categorisation
- ethnicity
- immigrant entrepreneurship
- labelling
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0266-2426