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- 5. Social sciences
- 5.2 Economics and Business
- Business and Management
- 5.9 Other social sciences
- interdisciplinary
- 5.2 Economics and Business
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The Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Research Group at the Budapest Business School started its work in 2018. First the motivation, barriers and supportive factors were in the focus of exploratory research, especially regarding the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Later the topic of freedom and the effects of ableism on the labour market became aspects of research analysis.
Further information in Hungarian: https://budapestlab.hu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Working-Paper-Series-12-2020.pdf
In my doctoral research, I am studying the labour market discourse(s) on people with disabilities, in particular in the human resources consulting master's degree programmes. Measures, initiatives, public policy or scientific arguments based on obvious employment disadvantages, aimed at the participation of people with disabilities in the labour market, sometimes form a parallel or even contradictory stream of speeches, which can be called, on the whole, labour market integration discourse. Domestic employment policy and training of HR professionals based on different approaches or principles, in many cases based on different definitions or changing conceptual categories, are also likely to be linked to the low level of effectiveness of labour market programmes using traditional methods.
The media have traditionally portrayed disability in a negative light, along many stereotypes. According to this, people with disabilities have characteristics such as 'pathetic', 'victim of violence', 'evil', 'object of ridicule' or 'burden to society', while the goal is (would) be a humane, human-centered, balanced representation where their stories, narratives and agency are also present, in addition to a respectful language. The aim of the research is to explore negative (and positive) portrayals of disability, as well as discourses that portray people with disabilities as inferior, inadequate and incomplete.
Highlighted publications
- 2023 – The intersectional identity work of entrepreneurs with disabilities: constructing difference through disability, gender, and entrepreneurship – mtmt.hu
- 2025 – A tudás megszerzése a fogyatékossággal élő vállalkozók esetében: a formális és informális tanulás szerepe – mtmt.hu
- 2025 – Pushed to the Edge? Entrepreneurs with Disabilities and the Post-socialist Experience of Ableism – mtmt.hu
- 2025 – A tökéletes test mítosza: Az épségizmus mint a fogyatékossággal élő emberek munkaerőpiaci marginalizációját erősítő ideológia – mtmt.hu
- 2025 – Victims or Heroes?—Disability Representations in a Hungarian Online News Media Portal – mtmt.hu