Indian Journal of Industrial Relations: Economics & Social Dev.

Dharma Raju Bathini ¹, George Kandathil ²

Affiliations
1 Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, IN
2 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, IN

Abstract

This paper examines the discourse on work from home in global and indian contexts. it shows a long-held excessive focus on employee benefits which deflected the attention away from employee costs. Even though there was discussion on costs in th recent past, it mainly focussed on employers' costs. However, a growing body of recent research shows that the framing of work from home as an employee benefit creates normative pressures on employees to intensify their work. the authors argue that current discourse, which portrays work from home as an employer cost and simultaneously an employee benefit, can steepen the normative pressures on employees, creating undesirable outcomes.

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Reena Biju ¹, George Kandathil ²

Affiliations
1 Organizational Behaviour Area,Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, IN
2 Organizational Behavior Area,Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, IN

Abstract

This paper critically analyses the ongoing global and Indian narratives and actions related to women entrepreneurship which shows a consistent long-held focus on its benefits, particularly construing it as a means to women empowerment. These brightening dominant narratives miss the costs that women entrepreneurs pay and their sources. Based on the recent research on critical entrepreneurship, the authors foreground the invisible and argue that the source of the costs is the male-dominant masculine structure that underlies the conceptualization and actions related to entrepreneurship. The costs, particularly related to emotional labor which even the recent research ignores, and its source disempower women entrepreneurs. Hence, for the talks and actions on women entrepreneurship to be meaningful, we need broader discussions of affective or emotional, cognitive-structural and behavioral costs that women entrepreneurs are made to bear in their day-to-day life and an interrogation of the masculine entrepreneurship-related discourses and actions.

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