Passing up the job: : The role of gendered organizations and families in the entrepreneurial career process

• Autores: Sarah Thébaud
• Localización: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, ISSN-e 1540-6520, Vol. 40, Nº. 2, 2016, págs. 269-287
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article theorizes and evaluates the relationship between inflexible organizational practices, family factors, and gendered pathways into entrepreneurship. Using novel survey data collected by the Harris Poll, I evaluate how a decision to pass up a job that lacks flexibility is associated with self-employment, and examine how this relationship varies by gender, family status, and educational attainment. Findings suggest that passing up a job is associated with women's, but not men's, self-employment. Moreover, motherhood and a spouse's employment status predict women's self-employment, but only if they have sacrificed a job opportunity.