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Tracing the superheroes of our time: Contemporary and emergent masculinities in tech entrepreneurship
Department of Social and Psychological Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7235-0179
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5268-8957
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2741-7263
2023 (English)In: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, Practices and Futures of Organizing / [ed] Jeff Hearn; Kadri Aavik; David L. Collinson; Anika Thym, Routledge, 2023, p. 417-429Chapter in book (Refereed)
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In this chapter, we provide an overview of masculinity in relation to technology, entrepreneurship and organizations connected to technology entrepreneurship. In doing so, we address how masculinity as an underlying gendered configuration of technology entrepreneurship, and particularly Big Tech, has been and can be conceptualized in masculinity studies, and how this kind of masculinity has taken centre stage as a dominant form of masculinity in global business masculinities, social media representations and films. We combine the elements of entrepreneurial and technology masculinities in order to address their importance for organizational forms and ideals. We also incorporate intersectional perspectives as far as they are applicable to the literature we review. We hint at the larger socio-cultural implications of the technoentrepreneurial masculinities that we outline. We want to emphasize, in particular, that the figuration of a hegemonic geek masculinity that we propose here needs to be contextualized within a wider frame of other gendered and racial inequalities in the tech industry.

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Routledge, 2023. p. 417-429
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organizations, men and masculinities, technology, entrepreneurship
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-109522DOI: 10.4324/9781003193579-34Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85176425421ISBN: 9781003193579 (electronic)ISBN: 9781032045153 (print)ISBN: 9781032045160 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-109522DiVA, id: diva2:1808975
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Swedish Research Council, 2018-00937Available from: 2023-11-01 Created: 2023-11-01 Last updated: 2023-12-14Bibliographically approved

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