The Complex Hues of Entrepreneurial Identity Amongst Women Owning Accounting Firms

Title
The Complex Hues of Entrepreneurial Identity Amongst Women Owning Accounting Firms
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Adapa, Sujana
( editor )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4385-1783
Email: sadapa2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sadapa2
Sheridan, Alison J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9342-4931
Email: asherida@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:asherida
Editor
Editor(s): Payal Kumar
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
London, United Kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-60259-6_2
UNE publication id
une:20724
Abstract
Accounting firms in India are still largely male-dominated, and women are particularly under-represented in senior roles as partners, principals, and associates. However, there is a perceptible change with more and more women now pursuing an education in accountancy and aspiring to start off accounting firms of their own. In-depth interviews of women entrepreneurs running micro, small-sized and family-owned accounting firms in Chennai in south India reveal that women as entrepreneurs need to grapple with multiple identities in order to manage their business performance and family responsibilities. There seems to be a complex interplay of multiple identities including gender, caste, entrepreneurship orientation etc., with a new social identity emerging alongside the more traditional one.
Link
Citation
Indian Women as Entrepreneurs : An Exploration of Self-Identity, p. 21-42
ISBN
9781137602596
9781137602589
Start page
21
End page
42

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