Family as a eudaimonic bubble: women entrepreneurs mobilizing resources of care during persistent financial crisis and austerity
Family as a eudaimonic bubble: women entrepreneurs mobilizing resources of care during persistent financial crisis and austerity
Drawing on the conceptualization of family as a eudaimonic bubble, the study explores how women entrepreneurs mobilize familial resources to navigate the gendered challenges faced during persistent financial crisis and austerity in Greece, a country affected by acute socioeconomic crisis. Through qualitative interviews with women who started their own business during the financial crisis, it investigates how the allocation of resources and opportunities built on care enabled women to start and sustain their own business and achieve a degree of normative conformity, creating social cohesion in the here and now. The analysis reveals the transformational potential of familial care by illustrating three modes of resources of care that contribute to business viability, and positions the family, an organizing principle, in the centre of research on gendered mobilizations in crisis economies. In that way, the study critically contributes to debates regarding gender, entrepreneurship and austerity.
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Meliou, Elina
85901a05-3848-4490-962a-116488574d04
26 December 2019
Meliou, Elina
85901a05-3848-4490-962a-116488574d04
Meliou, Elina
(2019)
Family as a eudaimonic bubble: women entrepreneurs mobilizing resources of care during persistent financial crisis and austerity.
Gender, Work & Organization, 27 (2), .
(doi:10.1111/gwao.12411).
Abstract
Drawing on the conceptualization of family as a eudaimonic bubble, the study explores how women entrepreneurs mobilize familial resources to navigate the gendered challenges faced during persistent financial crisis and austerity in Greece, a country affected by acute socioeconomic crisis. Through qualitative interviews with women who started their own business during the financial crisis, it investigates how the allocation of resources and opportunities built on care enabled women to start and sustain their own business and achieve a degree of normative conformity, creating social cohesion in the here and now. The analysis reveals the transformational potential of familial care by illustrating three modes of resources of care that contribute to business viability, and positions the family, an organizing principle, in the centre of research on gendered mobilizations in crisis economies. In that way, the study critically contributes to debates regarding gender, entrepreneurship and austerity.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 August 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 August 2019
Published date: 26 December 2019
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/500355
ISSN: 0968-6673
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