Entrepreneurial Leadership, Patriarchy, Gender, and Identity in the Arab World: Lebanon in Focus

• DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12397
• Publication Date: 2018-02-12T03:56:40Z
• Authors: Hayfaa A. Tlaiss; Saleema Kauser
• Keywords: Patriarchy; Entrepreneurial Leadership

In this paper, we apply insights from poststructuralist feminist theory to contribute entrepreneurial leadership. By drawing on 21 individual narratives with Lebanese women entrepreneurs, explore how they determine their status as leaders and establish identities. Although the factors of gender, sociocultural values, agency can be counteractive, it is that creates space for entrepreneurship provides them a means navigate structural inequalities. The entrepreneurs in study engage compliance, disregard, defiance strategies expand boundaries what socially permissible strengthen This research contributes studies leadership aids development by demonstrating Arab construct leadership, agency, identity at juncture patriarchy, gender ideologies.