CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF STIGMA: ENTREPRENEURIAL EMANCIPATION IN THE SEX INDUSTRY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ruebottom, Trish; Toubiana, Madeline
• 署名单位: McMaster University; University of Alberta
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2018.1166
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 1049-1077
• 关键词: DIRTY WORK; Social entrepreneurship; emotions; POWER; IDENTITIES; management; ORGANIZATIONS; masculinity; legitimacy; narratives

摘要

Entrepreneurs work not only in socially accepted and valued domains but also in highly contested, stigmatized industries. Despite the extreme constraints of working in stigmatized domains, entrepreneurs manage to thrive. The fact that entrepreneurs in these industries appear to over come the constraints of stigma raises questions about the actual impacts ofstigmaonentrepreneursandtheirventures. Our qualitative study of entrepreneurs in the sex industry in Canada reveals that the many constraints faced by entrepreneurs in stigmatized industries also create opportunities. Actualizing such stigma-based opportunities loosens the constraints of stigma and enables entrepreneurs to experience structural, cognitive, and emotional emancipation. However, such emancipation is confined to the context, and thus threatened by interactions with those outside the industry. Based on our findings, we develop a model of entrepreneurial emancipation in stigmatized industries.