Pub Date : 2022-01-28DOI: 10.1177/14657503221076825
A. Sottini, B. Cannatelli
Over the last decades, scholars considered entrepreneurship as synonymous with thinking “outside of the box” and breaking the status quo. In this view, entrepreneurs are often viewed as heroes that try to improve the status quo. However, not all entrepreneurial rule-breaking are legal or moral a priori. The business landscape depicts a number of entrepreneurial ventures holding rebellious and anti-social postures. Despite the relevance of such a phenomenon, the motives and the dynamics beyond how and why some entrepreneurs deliberately diverge from laws and social norms has been overlooked. Accordingly, we introduce a novel conceptual model and framework using four propositions that contributes to the extant literature in two ways: first, we propose a logic through which entrepreneurs consciously diverge from legal and legitimate institutions, and second, we introduce antecedents and moderating variables explaining the behaviors of disobeying regulations and moral codes by leveraging cognitive and institutional theories. Finally, practical implications of the proposed model for entrepreneurs, policymakers, and business educators are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.1177/14657503221074576
Radi Haloub, Grace C. Khoury, Asem Masri
This case presents how entrepreneurial storytelling assists entrepreneurs in attracting new investors, pursuing innovation and developing resilience in the Palestinian Territory. It also examines the role of entrepreneurial storytelling in eluding political crises and supporting the CEO's vision to adapt changes in the political environment. Moreover, this case explains how entrepreneurs respond to local competitors who operate in the same uncontrollable and unpredictable environment. The case is written based on three semi-structured interviews (total seven hours) with the Chief Executive Officer 1 of Pharmacare Pharmaceuticals Public Limited Company (PCP) 2 : Mr Bassim Khoury (BK). PCP is the third Palestinian pharmaceutical company in terms of turnover in 2021, with more than 100 products and 330 employees, and is the first company in the Palestinian Territory to expand internationally in 22 countries.
本案例展示了企业家讲故事如何帮助企业家在巴勒斯坦领土吸引新的投资者、追求创新和发展复原力。它还考察了企业家讲故事在逃避政治危机和支持首席执行官适应政治环境变化的愿景方面的作用。此外，这个案例解释了企业家如何应对在同样不可控和不可预测的环境中运作的本地竞争对手。本案例是基于对Pharmacare Pharmaceuticals Public Limited Company (PCP)首席执行官Bassim Khoury先生(BK)的三次半结构化访谈(共7小时)撰写的。按2021年营业额计算，PCP是巴勒斯坦第三大制药公司，拥有100多种产品和330名员工，也是巴勒斯坦领土上第一家在22个国家进行国际扩张的公司。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-18DOI: 10.1177/14657503221074581
J. Brinkerink
Field-wide editorial expectations for each entrepreneurship study to offer new and interesting theoretical insights or explanations discourage entrepreneurship scholars to conduct the type of research needed to secure a replicable, generalizable, and thereby useful knowledge base. I address the paradoxical – yet predictable – long-term consequences of the relentless push for theoretical novelty on the ultimate informativeness of entrepreneurship theory, and ask the entrepreneurship research community to consider our collective and individual responsibilities in improving the systematic empirical scrutiny to which we subject our field’s core assumptions.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-17DOI: 10.1177/14657503221074577
Neslihan Turnalar-Çetinkaya
Introduction Today’s agile and globalized markets of economies with increased complexities force organizations to be more open to new ideas, exploit those ideas, and take risks to sustain their competitive advantages (Khan et al., 2011). The demand to accommodate those particular conditions increases the inquiry of how valuable are the organizational-level entrepreneurial activities that have been conceptualized varyingly as corporate entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, entrepreneurial posture, corporate venturing, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) (Antoncic and Hisrich, 2003; Covin and Slevin, 1991; Lumpkin and Dess, 1996; Pinchot, 1985; Zahra et al., 1999). Rauch et al. (2009) advocate that organizations with EO have diverse leverages. It is associated with the organization’s new business creation (Guth and Ginsberg, 1990), and it enhances general (Ferreira et al., 2021; Swierczek and Ha, 2003) and innovative performance (Freixanet et al., 2020). Moreover, it is essential to compete capably in volatile business conditions (Wiklund and Shepherd, 2005). Despite the significance, there is a limited understanding of how organizations stimulate EO (Wiklund and Shepherd, 2011). Wales et al. (2021) posit that it is primarily studied as a main effect, and the number of studies questioning its antecedents is relatively small. Accordingly, they argue the importance of focusing on its “genesis” (Wales et al., 2021: 575). Furthermore, Wales et al. (2021) advocate that organizations can lead to EO by cultivating a supportive internal context. Nevertheless, scholars barely consider this strategic orientation as an aspect encompassing organizational structures and managerial styles (Wales et al., 2020; Wales et al., 2021). Wales (2016) discusses that it is a meaningful area of research to explore those underlying internal dynamics. Past research of EO mobilizes participants mainly from Anglo territory, Germanic and Nordic Europe, and Confucian Asia (Martens et al., 2016). Nevertheless, studies indicate differences in entrepreneurial processes among different economies (i.e. developed, developing, emerging) (Martens et al., 2016). Boso et al. (2013) argue that EO deserves to be further studied in the context of a developing economy. Thus, scholars recommend further investigating organizations operating in different contexts with different dynamics (Galbreath et al., 2020). Driven by the paucity in the literature, the present study examines EO as a fallout of organizational (i.e. error management) and managerial (i.e. ambidextrous leadership) components. To build the theoretical scaffold, the dynamic capabilities framework (Teece et al., 1997), the upper echelon theory (Hambrick and Mason, 1984), and the regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1998) are employed. Based on the theoretical discussions, a model is drawn to test the possible contribution of the organization’s strategy toward errors to enhance the EO by creating a learning atmosphere where leaders will
当今经济的敏捷和全球化市场日益复杂，迫使组织对新想法更加开放，利用这些想法，并承担风险以维持其竞争优势(Khan et al.， 2011)。适应这些特殊条件的需求增加了对组织层面创业活动价值的探究，这些活动被不同地概念化为公司创业、内部创业、创业姿态、公司冒险和创业取向(EO) (Antoncic and Hisrich, 2003;Covin and Slevin, 1991;Lumpkin and Dess, 1996;Pinchot, 1985;Zahra et al.， 1999)。Rauch et al.(2009)主张具有EO的组织具有多种杠杆。它与组织的新业务创造有关(Guth和Ginsberg, 1990)，它增强了一般性(Ferreira等人，2021;Swierczek和Ha, 2003)和创新绩效(Freixanet et al.， 2020)。此外，在不稳定的商业条件下竞争是必不可少的(Wiklund and Shepherd, 2005)。尽管具有重要意义，但人们对组织如何刺激EO的理解有限(Wiklund and Shepherd, 2011)。Wales等人(2021)认为它主要是作为一种主效应来研究的，质疑其前因的研究数量相对较少。因此，他们认为关注其“起源”的重要性(Wales et al.， 2021: 575)。此外，Wales等人(2021)主张，组织可以通过培养支持性的内部环境来实现EO。然而，学者们很少将这种战略取向视为包含组织结构和管理风格的一个方面(Wales et al.， 2020;Wales et al.， 2021)。威尔士(2016)讨论了探索这些潜在的内部动态是一个有意义的研究领域。过去的EO研究动员的参与者主要来自盎格鲁地区、日耳曼和北欧以及儒家亚洲(Martens et al.， 2016)。然而，研究表明不同经济体(即发达经济体、发展中经济体、新兴经济体)之间的创业过程存在差异(Martens et al.， 2016)。Boso等人(2013)认为，EO值得在发展中经济体的背景下进一步研究。因此，学者们建议进一步调查在不同背景下以不同动态运行的组织(Galbreath et al.， 2020)。由于文献的缺乏，本研究将EO作为组织(即错误管理)和管理(即双灵巧领导)组成部分的产物进行了研究。为了构建理论框架，采用了动态能力框架(Teece et al.， 1997)、上层理论(Hambrick and Mason, 1984)和监管焦点理论(Higgins, 1998)。在理论讨论的基础上，提出了一个模型来测试组织战略对错误的可能贡献，通过创造一种学习氛围，领导者将以平衡的方式展示开放和封闭的行为，从而提高EO。本研究有几个关键性的贡献。首先，测试一个未开发的概念框架，以理解EO的起源。迄今为止，还没有研究特别认为从错误中学习是一种动态能力(Teece, 2016)，通过刺激管理的两重性来支持创业导向。其次，基于管理风格和其他情境条件之间的契合将积极影响组织变量的论点，它提供了从管理角度的见解
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Pub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.1177/14657503211063896
Elina I. Mäkinen, Terhi Esko
Higher education institutions promote academic entrepreneurship through organizational arrangements such as innovation programs, incubators, and accelerators aimed at implementing the third mission of the university. While research has examined how these multi-professional arrangements support entrepreneurial efforts, less is known about their individual level implications which emerge as researchers are exposed to different professional values and practices. This article draws on a longitudinal qualitative study on an innovation program to investigate through what kinds of identity processes nascent academic entrepreneurs construct their professional identities and how as part of these processes they position themselves in relation to different professional domains. The analysis demonstrates three identity construction processes (hybridization, rejecting hybridization, and transitioning) and their associated identity work tactics (compartmentalizing, protecting, and reframing) at the boundaries of professional domains. Our contribution is in demonstrating how nascent academic entrepreneurs’ identity construction processes are influenced by internally and externally oriented identity work and their interactive dynamics. Moreover, the findings advance our understanding of how individuals can purposefully mould the fluidity of domain boundaries through identity work by making boundaries bridgeable, impermeable, or permeable. These findings have value for those developing organizational arrangements for the promotion of academic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial identities.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1177/14657503211066010
Meriam Brahem, Samira Boussema
This paper examines a new type of entrepreneurship conducted via social networking sites named as social media entrepreneurship. In Tunisia, the number of women entrepreneurs operating on social media platforms such as Facebook is noteworthy. Thus, in this study it is aimed to determine the factors that prompted women to develop businesses on Facebook, and how this social network is a venue for female entrepreneurship. Particular attention is paid to identify individual-related (push/pull entrepreneurial motivation), technology-related and institutional factors that bear on the use of social media. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of 24 female entrepreneurs. The research findings provide relevant information and support the idea that social media has opened up new horizons and entrepreneurial opportunities for women to pursue their entrepreneurial intention. Pull motivations are really behind the decision to start up social commerce. Facebook advantageous features have empowered women to create customer networks, used nature marketing tool at no cost and acquire positive attitude towards entrepreneurship. Finally, although the informal nature of business on Facebook is attractive, formalization remains a challenge for the majority of women. It seems that ambition to grow their businesses brings them to formal economy.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1177/14657503211066014
Hajer Chabbouh, Y. Boujelbene
In this paper, the main objective is to examine inbound open innovation adoption by exploring its antecedents in terms of dynamic organizational capabilities, its implications on innovation performance, but also its mediating role between these capabilities and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) innovation performance. Therefore, a conceptual model was proposed and empirically tested on the basis of data extracted from a survey involving a sample of 228 Tunisian manufacturing SMEs and analyzed through the Structural Equation Modeling method. In doing so, this paper adds to the existing literature on open innovation in SMEs and fills a neglected theoretical gap by proposing a link between dynamic capabilities theory and the open innovation paradigm, two literatures that have little overlap, to improve current understanding of innovation performance in SMEs. Ultimately, by empirically confirming the significant relationship between dynamic organizational capacities and innovation performance through the mediating role of open innovation, our results are mainly relevant for entrepreneurs and innovation managers in SMEs who can find valuable guidance on how to strengthen innovation performance under the nexus between the dynamic capabilities perspective and open innovation by focusing on the development of three capabilities that are dynamic capabilities, absorptive capability, and appropriation capabilities.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1177/14657503211066013
Daniel Prokop
This paper reviews the key theories of the firm and considers their relevance to studying and understanding academic spinoffs as a special case of firms. The theory of the firm is an important aspect in entrepreneurship literature, as without clear understanding of the parameters influencing firm's behaviour, it remains difficult to predict its decisions to secure sustainable growth and ensure development of the economy overall. The paper considers the contribution of transaction cost theory, managerial theory, resource-based view, knowledge-based view, and dynamic capabilities, to the understanding of the academic spinoff. In essence, these theoretical explanations lend multiple perspectives that offer a greater insight into the academic spinoff firm by illuminating the issues of its boundaries, entrepreneurs, resources, knowledge, and networks. It is concluded that understanding academic spinoffs requires acknowledging this theoretical plurality. In response to this challenge, the paper proposes the Academic Spinoff Theory of the Firm.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1177/14657503211044771
S. Krishnan, L. Ganesh, C. Rajendran
This case focuses on how a lifestyle enterprise has used strategies to survive amidst the COVID-19 crisis. It explores how a lifestyle enterprise, ‘The Square Inch’, a quilting studio, (a) conducts teaching workshops, (b) stitches and sells quilts and (c) sells raw materials and accessories, including sewing machines required for quilting. The case provides a detailed account of the risks, uncertainties and crises faced by a lifestyle enterprise and its entrepreneur during its founding and growth. This case also highlights how resilience, entrepreneurial orientation and innovation can be used as survival strategies to overcome challenges. The case engages students to understand the survival strategies employed by a lifestyle entrepreneur in times of crisis.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-06DOI: 10.1177/14657503211063913
R. Roy
Qure.ai was a healthcare startup deep learning, a subset of machine learning, in healthcare. One of their products was used to diagnose tuberculosis and other lung ailments. With the spread of COVID-19, they were able to repurpose their product to also detect early onset of COVID-19 in patients. They were in a position where they had to decide whether to focus on COVID-19 or on the opportunities related to other lung ailments.
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