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Categorising and labelling entrepreneurs : Business support organisations constructing the Other through prefixes of ethnicity and immigrantship

Författare

  • Lena Högberg
  • Tobias Schölin
  • Monder Ram
  • Trevor Jones

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