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‘Embrace the masculine; attenuate the feminine’ – gender, identity work and entrepreneurial legitimation in the nascent context

Janine SwailDepartment of Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Susan MarlowHaydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 256-282 | Received 24 Jan 2017, Accepted 14 Nov 2017, Published online: 29 Nov 2017

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