ABSTRACT
The main tenet of this chapter is to understand the complexity of the relationship between power and resistance by employing the definition of agency as a 'socio-culturally mediated capacity to act'. The concept of 'struggle' is adopted to scrutinise and explain the dialectical power–resistance relationship among the immigrant woman entrepreneurs (IWE) and the established orders in which they are embedded. The chapter furthers such discussion through a mind-stretching approach to how IWE find themselves in social complexity with forces coming from gender, ethnicity, class and entrepreneurship (power), and how they empower themselves and others in reworking these relations (resistance and agency). It focuses on setting up the theoretical framework, which not only unpacks relevant entrepreneurship literature but also situates its content vis-+á-vis ethnographic and organisational accounts on power, resistance and agency. This is followed by an introduction to the methodological approach and tools used for material generation and analysis.
