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Business counselling services directed towards female entrepreneurs - some legitimacy dilemmas

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  • Nilsson Pernilla

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This paper follows on from a governmental business support programme directed towards female entrepreneurs in the rural districts of Sweden. The implementation of a gender segregated business counselling service is discussed from feminist and neo-institutional perspectives. The intention is to explore the components of the counselling service's identity formation within an institutionalized field of business. Female entrepreneurship as ‘the other’ leads 1.0 legitimacy dilemmas concerning the interactions between the counselling service and the Local Enterprise Boards. The study illustrates a situation where legitimacy is acquired by directing the search-light to external resources.

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  • Nilsson Pernilla, 1997. "Business counselling services directed towards female entrepreneurs - some legitimacy dilemmas," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(3), pages 239-258, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:entreg:v:9:y:1997:i:3:p:239-258
    DOI: 10.1080/08985629700000014
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    1. Sandra MacDonald & Irene Hardill, 1999. "Targeted small firms policies: The case of affirmative action in the US," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(6), pages 576-580.
    2. Ratinho, Tiago & Amezcua, Alejandro & Honig, Benson & Zeng, Zhaocheng, 2020. "Supporting entrepreneurs: A systematic review of literature and an agenda for research," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).
    3. Mohd Yasir Arafat & Javed Ali & Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Imran Saleem, 2020. "Social and Cognitive Aspects of Women Entrepreneurs: Evidence from India," Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, , vol. 45(4), pages 223-239, December.
    4. Jonathan M Scott & David Irwin, 2009. "Discouraged Advisees? The Influence of Gender, Ethnicity, and Education in the Use of Advice and Finance by UK SMEs," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 27(2), pages 230-245, April.

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