It is not all about Money! Why Chinese Women from Elite Families Pursue their Own Businesses and How Entrepreneurship Shapes Family Dynamics

TY - CONF

T1 - It is not all about Money!

T2 - 2024 Diana International Research Conference

AU - Schaper, Anna-Katharina

AU - Frost, Shuang

AU - Welter, Friederike

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - This study looks at how the context of elite families shapes the entrepreneurial aspirations and approaches of women. Drawing upon a family embeddedness perspective, our study examines why and how Chinese women entrepreneurs from ‘elite’ family backgrounds create their own enterprises. We found that women entrepreneurs adopted an integrated view towards pursuing individual and family-oriented goals through entrepreneurship, which are sometimes in tension with one another. To harmonize these two levels of objectives, they adopt a set of strategies that combine self-emancipation with traditional gender roles, support family businesses through their own ventures, and accumulate social, cultural, and political capital through entrepreneuring that could elevate families’ social status.

AB - This study looks at how the context of elite families shapes the entrepreneurial aspirations and approaches of women. Drawing upon a family embeddedness perspective, our study examines why and how Chinese women entrepreneurs from ‘elite’ family backgrounds create their own enterprises. We found that women entrepreneurs adopted an integrated view towards pursuing individual and family-oriented goals through entrepreneurship, which are sometimes in tension with one another. To harmonize these two levels of objectives, they adopt a set of strategies that combine self-emancipation with traditional gender roles, support family businesses through their own ventures, and accumulate social, cultural, and political capital through entrepreneuring that could elevate families’ social status.

M3 - Paper

Y2 - 1 June 2024 through 3 June 2024

ER -