Gender inclusion/exclusion in business incubators and accelerators: a critical discourse analysis of websites
通过分析166个加拿大商业孵化器和加速器网站的话语，发现三种话语实践：排斥性话语维持男性化创业形象，包容性话语推动开放创业，混合话语在维持现状的同时允许变化。
Feminist studies have shown how societal discourse constructs entrepreneurship as a gendered field, privileging a masculine image of entrepreneurship. Grounded in this literature, we examine business incubators and accelerators (BIAs) as implicit gatekeepers for new entrants into entrepreneurship, and as heavily understudied intermediary actors within the broad entrepreneurship ecosystem. Through a critical discourse analysis of 166 Canadian BIA websites, we examine how these texts construct entrepreneurship and study these constructions through the lens of gender inclusion or exclusion. Analysing identity and relational functions of the texts we find three overarching discursive practices, two that reproduce the status quo (a masculine gendered entrepreneurship), and a third that creates a counter-discourse, pointing to the possibility for change. Based on these practices and how they are combined, we develop a critical typology of BIAs’ website discourses comprising: 1) an exclusionary discourse perpetuating a masculine gendered system that we label ‘closed entrepreneurship’; 2) a less prevalent inclusive discourse that disturbs existing structures and shifts them to ‘open entrepreneurship’, and 3) a hybrid discourse, permitting variance while sustaining the gendered status quo. Our work extends entrepreneurship discourse studies to the organizational level of analysis and has implications for ‘inclusive entrepreneurship’ theory and practice.