Actioning sustainability through tourism entrepreneurship: Women entrepreneurs as change agents navigating through the field of stakeholders

• Authors: Mine Karatas-Ozkan , Renan Tunalioglu , Shahnaz Ibrahim , Emir Ozeren , Vadim Grinevich , Joseph Kimaro

Abstracts

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Purpose – Sustainability is viewed as an encompassing perspective, as endorsed by the international policy context, driven by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We aim to examine how women entrepreneurs transform capitals to pursue sustainability, and to generate policy insights for sustainability actions through tourism entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach – Applying qualitative approach, we have generated empirical evidence drawing on 37 qualitative interviews carried out in Turkey, whereby boundaries between traditional patriarchal forces and progressive movements in gender relations are blurred. Findings – We have generated insights into how women entrepreneurs develop their sustainability practice by transforming their available economic, cultural, social and symbolic capitals in interpreting the macro-field and by developing navigation strategies to pursue sustainability. This transformative process demonstrates how gender roles were performed and negotiated in serving for sustainability pillars. Research limitations/implications – In this paper, we demonstrate the nature and instrumentality of sustainable tourism entrepreneurship through a gender lens in addressing some of these SDG-driven challenges. Originality/value – We advance the scholarly and policy debates by bringing gender issues to the forefront, discussing sustainable tourism initiatives from the viewpoint of entrepreneurs and various members of local community and stakeholder in a developing country context where women’s solidarity becomes crucial.

Keywords

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Entrepreneurship; Bourdieu; Gender; Sustainability; Sustainable Development Goals

• Publisher: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Central European Management Journal
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-56

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

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Mine Karatas-Ozkan

• Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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Renan Tunalioglu

• Adnan Menderes Universitesi, Aydin, Turkey

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Shahnaz Ibrahim

• University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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Emir Ozeren

• Dokuz Eylul Universitesi, Izmir, Turkey

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Vadim Grinevich

• University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

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Joseph Kimaro

• Solent University, Southampton, UK

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DOI

10.1108/CEMJ-12-2021-0159

Biblioteka Nauki

40719282