Walking the tightrope and stirring things up: Exploring the institutional work of sustainable entrepreneurs DOI
Daniel Arenas, Marta Strumińska‐Kutra, Paolo Landoni

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Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 29(8), P. 3055 - 3071

Published: June 22, 2020

Abstract Sustainable entrepreneurs (SEs) operate under different institutional pressures, but they also aim to provoke changes in their environment order advance the goals of sustainability. These are not always large‐scale, successful transformations. This article adopts concept work explore how SEs engage purposive, mundane activities both fit and influence prevailing environment. In particular, our findings allow us introduce discuss four specific types work: making sustainability convenient, politicizing economic action, maneuvering around regulation, relational work. At end, we suggest that may find themselves a situation where transform commercial logic promote while trying adapt to, hence reproducing, this same would like transform.

Language: Английский

Entrepreneurial Identity: A Review and Research Agenda DOI
Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Vincent Lefèbvre, Eliana Crosina

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 45(6), P. 1550 - 1590

Published: May 11, 2021

Over the past three decades, research on entrepreneurial identity (EI) has grown particularly rapidly, yet in seemingly disparate directions. To lend structure to this fragmented field of inquiry, our systematic integrative review maps and integrates EI based antecedents, content, outcomes as well their relationships. In so doing, we reveal that revolves around two primary conceptualizations Property or Process. We suggest future avenues for examining interplay between temporal, socio-cognitive, spatial contexts, investigating theorizing overlooked mechanisms reconstructing losing EI.

Language: Английский

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Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations DOI
Brian J. Bergman, Jeffery S. McMullen

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 46(3), P. 688 - 728

Published: July 22, 2021

Entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs), such as incubators and accelerators, are now ubiquitous. Despite this proliferation, their impact on entrepreneurs, ventures, communities remains unclear, while academic research disjointed largely descriptive, limiting understanding of the entrepreneurial process influence ESOs it. Conducting a systematic review 337 peer-reviewed articles involving five ESO forms—incubators, science parks, maker spaces, co-working spaces—we find that literature’s conception is under-socialized there need for longitudinal, processual, experimental examination changes in rich relationships between entrepreneurs other ESOs, external stakeholders. Conceiving help to become self-sufficient, we offer an alternative, relational approach those seeking provide

Language: Английский

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Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring DOI Creative Commons
Dorota Marsh, Helen Eccleston, Martyna Śliwa

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Human Relations, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 30, 2025

At the heart of processual term ‘entrepreneuring’ lies something inherently optimistic: a belief that better world could be reached beyond actual. Embracing this perspective, we move away from focus on entrepreneurial mastery and seek conditions for entrepreneuring understood as social change, foregrounding its affective dimension. We do so by researching writing differently; in adopting (and adapting) ethnography practices (praxiography), centre body cause, subject instrument stories tell. By reading affect with (posthumanist) practice theory, expand notion to inquire how shame pride matter within small family businesses. Employing visceral, sensory embodied style crafting our text, invite readers sense well interpret. The article contributes literature two ways: first, it proposes novel methodological approach studying about practices; second, builds an understanding disrupt already organised make room futures yet come.

Language: Английский

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Institutional work in food waste reduction: Start-ups' role in moving towards a circular economy DOI
Elina Närvänen, Malla Mattila, Nina Mesiranta

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Industrial Marketing Management, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 93, P. 605 - 616

Published: Aug. 23, 2020

Language: Английский

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63

Legitimacy Processes and Trajectories of Co-Prosumption Services: Insights from Coworking Spaces DOI Creative Commons
Ricarda B. Bouncken, Victor Tiberius

Journal of Service Research, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 26(1), P. 64 - 82

Published: Oct. 15, 2021

Our study applies legitimacy theorizing to service research, zooming in on co-prosumption business models, which reside significant direct contacts among provider-actors and customers as well fellow the space. findings are based a longitudinal flexible pattern matching method 17 coworking spaces. The cocreation nuances double role of evaluators cocreators legitimacy. This is because can have immediate perceptions actions values services their evaluation while cocreating service. Legitimacy shaped via social recursive processes occurs three stages: provisional, calibrated, affirmed Findings inform four trajectory mechanisms value-in-use provenance, emergent Business Model development adaptive spatial context loyal customers, visible trances inside-out outside-in identification processes. Further, micro-ecosystem an interstitial space develop superordinate logic overlays potentially present coopetive heterogenous institutional logics interests customers.

Language: Английский

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Tracking the sociomaterial traces of affect at the crossroads of affect and practice theories DOI
Silvia Gherardi, Annalisa Murgia, Elisa Bellè

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Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 295 - 316

Published: Oct. 17, 2018

Purpose Affect is relevant for organization studies mainly its potential to reveal the intensities and forces of everyday organizational experiences that may pass unnoticed or in silence because they have been discarded from orthodoxy doing research “as usual.” The paper constructed around two questions: what does affect “do” a situated practice, study contribute practice-based studies. This aims discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach authors chose practice – interviewing focusing on dynamic character intra-actions among heterogeneous elements. What happens us, as persons researchers, when we put ourselves inside practices study? tracked sociomaterial traces left by transcript interviews, sounds voices, body interviewers, collective memories, separating mixing them like console. Findings reconstruction, non-representational text, episodes related work accident makes visible communicable how circulates within it stiches all elements together. point different aspects agency affect: first performs resonance boundaryless bodies, second transformative power changing situation. Originality/value turn common interest body, together re-opening discussion embodiment, embodied knowledge, epistemic practices. Moreover, suggest an inventive methodology studying writing

Language: Английский

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The fluid affective space of organizational practices DOI Creative Commons
Silvia Gherardi

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 18(5), P. 1 - 19

Published: June 16, 2023

Purpose The article contributes to affective ethnography focussing on the fluidity of organizational spacing. Through concept space, it highlights those elements that are ephemeral and elusive – like affect, aesthetics, atmosphere, intensity, moods proposes explore affect as spatialized space affective. Design/methodology/approach Fluidity is proposed a conceptual lens sits at conjunction highlighting both movement in time mutable relationships capacity affecting being affected weaves. It experiments with “writing differently” ethnography, thus performing representation space. Findings enriches alternative conceptualization organizations stable entities, considering organizing its spatial fragmented, dispersed phenomenon. Originality/value article's writing an example intertextuality constructed through five praxiographic stories illustrate multiple spacing terms temporal fluidity, boundaries, participation, object practice, atmospheric fluidity.

Language: Английский

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Entrepreneurial Pitching: A Critical Review and Integrative Framework DOI

Sai Kalvapalle,

Nelson Phillips, Joep Cornelissen

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Academy of Management Annals, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 18(2), P. 550 - 599

Published: April 29, 2024

Language: Английский

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Hackathons as Affective Circuits: Technology, organizationality and affect DOI Creative Commons
Nada Endrissat, Gazi Islam

Organization Studies, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 43(7), P. 1019 - 1047

Published: Oct. 12, 2021

Technology invites a reconsideration of organization and organizing by calling attention to mediated forms value production among loose social collectives outside formal organizational boundaries. While the nascent concept organizationality holds potential for such re-conceptualization, processes through which members become invested in co-orientation collective effort require further empirical theoretical exploration. In this paper, we link research with critical media studies on affect technology theorize how provisional together while promoting new modes extraction. Empirically, draw from an ethnographic study hackathons – transdigital innovation spaces where participants act suggest three intertwined as part affective circuit that stokes directs affect. The paper’s contribution is threefold. First, analysing circuits bind, integrate co-orient action members, contribute understanding affectively constituted. Second, showing leverage desire community, offer perspective capture argue involves novel production. Third, complement theorizing exploring them sites organizationality, focusing provisional, relational affect-rich nature digital age.

Language: Английский

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Working to align energy transitions and social equity: An integrative framework linking institutional work, imaginaries and energy justice DOI Creative Commons
Jesse Hoffman, Megan Davies, Thomas Bauwens

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Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 82, P. 102317 - 102317

Published: Sept. 30, 2021

Recent academic evidence suggests that, in contrast to what is often thought, the introduction of renewable energy infrastructures leads negative, not positive, social equity outcomes. Against this background, paper aims develop and empirically illustrate an integrative framework for analysing work – or 'agency' exercised by actors operating within across different global contexts align equity. To end, first reviews three generative conceptions agency transitions literature: institutional work, imaginaries justice. In reviewing their explanatory power as well shortcomings, concludes that these can be integrated meaningfully expanded conceptualisation spans distinct domains: i) 'reimagining', ii) 'recoding' iii) 'reconfiguring'. This article demonstrates domains understood reiteratively feed into each other we call 'triple re-cycle'. These iterations produce either bolstering effects strengthen potential positive outcomes evaporative diminish undermine potential. We case studies from Germany South Africa. Overall, argue triple re-cycle, a heuristic, provide new insights conceptually connecting multiple transitions, including discursive material aspects, contexts. Our hope identifying way supports improve globally.

Language: Английский

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