STEFFEN KORSGAARD Mompreneurship as a Challenge to the Growth Ideology of Entrepreneurship Mompreneurs are female business owners actively balancing the roles of mother and entrepreneur. This concept contra- dicts and challenges the assumption, prevalent in...
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STEFFEN KORSGAARD Mompreneurship as a Challenge to the Growth Ideology of Entrepreneurship Mompreneurs are female business owners actively balancing the roles of mother and entrepreneur. This concept contra- dicts and challenges the assumption, prevalent in entrepreneurship literature, that economic growth is the raison d’etre of entrepreneurship. By Steffen Korsgaard managerial experience. Entrepreneurship has received increased attention in the last 10 to 15 years. It is now widely recognised that Public debate has revealed the beginning of a new small- and medium-sized new businesses are very scepticism concerning the traditional concepts of important for the economic welfare of national econo- growth among some female entrepreneurs in Denmark. mies as they contribute significantly to innovation and The network “Morgendagens heltinder” [Heroines of job creation. In Denmark, the government has launched tomorrow] has aired the scepticism. Hoeck (2004), a key a number of initiatives to
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