Intersectional Analysis

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan; Susan Clark Muntean

doi:10.1017/9781009023641.008

7 - Intersectional Analysis

Gender, Race, and Immigrant Status in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2021

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan and

Susan Clark Muntean

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan: Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
Susan Clark Muntean: Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Asheville

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This chapter focuses on the city of Boston and delves into how intersectional differences among women entrepreneurs result in additional and different biasing forces for women of color and immigrant women entrepreneurs compared to White women engaging in entrepreneurship. As such, the chapter provides a holistic consideration of how gender, race, and other relations of difference may play out in experiences of entrepreneurship within entrepreneurial ecosystems. The chapter aims to provide a complex and holistic picture of how entrepreneurial ecosystems essentially provide very different experiences, interactions, and institutional support for actors in ecosystems, thereby supporting our argument that actors, even if in the same category, are indeed heterogeneous and not homogeneous.

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intersectionality race immigrant gender social networks capital inclusion institutions

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Type: Chapter
Information: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
A Gender Perspective
, pp. 184 - 218

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023641.008 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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