Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20528
Title: The Complex Hues of Entrepreneurial Identity Amongst Women Owning Accounting Firms
Contributor(s): Adapa, Sujana  (editor)orcid ; Sheridan, Alison J  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60259-6_2
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20528
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.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Indian Women as Entrepreneurs : An Exploration of Self-Identity, p. 21-42
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781137602596
9781137602589
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 150313 Quality Management
150302 Business Information Systems
150307 Innovation and Technology Management
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 350303 Business information systems
350705 Innovation management
350715 Quality management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 900101 Finance Services
900204 Wholesale and Retail Trade
900202 Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 110302 Professional, scientific and technical services
110304 Wholesale and retail trade
110201 Finance services
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/232903933
Editor: Editor(s): Payal Kumar
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
UNE Business School

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