Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/14761270231163105
Richard J. Arend
This So!apbox Forum’s essays relating to the state of entrepreneurship theory are collectively and briefly assessed and summarized by considering their substantive areas of agreement and disagreement, as well as their projections for how such theory can progress and add even more value to society in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1177/14761270231168218
M. Regele
Organizations are increasingly adopting “purposes beyond profit” that combine aspirational social aims with profit goals. Often, however, the social aims seem to be subordinated to profit goals when business strategies are implemented. This study builds new theory about why this is the case through an inductive, ethnographic investigation of a textbook company adopting a purpose beyond profit. I find employees first responded to the new purpose by engaging in individual meaning making. The resulting meanings shaped interactions with colleagues and allowed career-oriented employees to misappropriate the beyond profit elements of purpose for personal gain. As a result, a significant divide emerged between how the beyond profit elements of purpose were discussed and the mostly superficial ways in which they were pursued. Together these findings highlight previously unrecognized implications of adopting a purpose beyond profit and why the achievement of associated social aims may be rare.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1177/14761270231169103
Matthew C. B. Lyle, Ashley S Hockensmith, I. Walsh
While prior research suggests that novel ventures not yet present in a given geographic community might threaten reflective aspects of community identity (i.e., materiality and rhetoric), it has yet to explain the divergent outcomes they might engender. In this paper, we develop a comparative case study of comparable communities where recreational cannabis dispensaries were founded and underlaid a noticeably different effect on identity reflections. Our findings suggest that different threat interpretations – founded in communal characterizations of history – spur theoretically similar yet descriptively different processes through which these elements co-evolve. Furthermore, these processes involve a wide range of actors and occur irrespective of the venture’s ultimate influence on reflections of community identity.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1177/14761270231165356
T. Vuori
This essay integrates emotions into the attention-based view of the firm to enhance the theory’s explanatory power and open a generative path for future research. Organizational structures and communicative practices shape organization leaders’ and members’ emotions. These emotions influence their attentional engagement. Structures and communicative practices shape emotions via two main paths: (1) perceived issue or initiative characteristics, which influence organization leaders’ and members’ specific emotions toward the issue and initiative, and (2) the socially constructed context for interaction about the issue or initiative, which influences the emotional energy leaders and members associate with the issue or initiative. The resulting emotions influence attentional engagement over three time horizons: immediately in the triggering situation, recurringly after the triggering situation, and through the creation of additional structures and practices that influence attentional engagement.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-18DOI: 10.1177/14761270231159391
Teppo Felin, N. Foss
We argue that firm-specific theories are critical for understanding the emergence and evolution of ecosystems. We first highlight how existing research on ecosystems lacks microfoundations and tends to be overly structural. We focus on the theory-led firm—the role that a firm-specific theory plays in capability development and the associated growth of ecosystems. Ecosystems are contingent on firm-specific theories of value. We also discuss the implications of our arguments for search- and demand-based approaches to ecosystems and point toward a theory-based and supply-side alternative.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/14761270231152950
O. Alexy, L. Berchicci, C. Cloutier, Glen Dowell, P. Jarzabkowski, A. Langley, Caterina Moschieri, Amit Nigam, M. Wiersema
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/14761270231152955
R. David, Candace Jones, Grégoire Croidieu
Existing category research tends to divorce categories from place. When considered at all, place is often relegated to the contextual background. We see at least three important elements of place that can inform our understanding of categories: first, categories are rooted in the materiality of place; second, those who inhabit a place often share a collective identity that can impart meaning to categories; third, places influence the collective action that underlies category processes. Accordingly, we call for categories “to be put in their place” in category research, by attending to the materialities, collective identities, and collective action present in place. We present an integrative framework for future research that links place, categories, and organizational outcomes, and suggest mechanisms that link these constructs.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/14761270231156110
Matthew C. B. Lyle, Ashley S Hockensmith, Ovidiu C. Cocieru
Much of organizational scholarship to-date has rested on the assumption that the organizations at which individuals work are centerpieces of their experiences. In this essay, we argue for a shift in perspective – namely, the de-centering of work organizations. We develop the lens of organizations as enablers of life and elaborate ways in which this perspective shift may appropriately re-orient organizational scholarship to account for a wider range of experiences at work in order to move our field forward.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1177/14761270231151734
R. Bednarek, Wendy K. Smith
Scholars increasingly turn to paradox theory to offer insight into our world’s greatest challenges. Yet to contribute to radical strategy theorizing concerning those challenges and avoid premature convergence on a narrow set of ideas, paradox scholars need new insights. We turn to early 20th century scholar and activist Mary Parker Follett. We highlight the alignment between Follett’s philosophy and contemporary paradox theory, showing that the two approaches are well-suited traveling companions. Drawing on these similarities, we then explore how Follett’s novel insights emphasize ‘what is’ rather than ‘what may be’ and in doing so challenge and expand on paradox theory. Specifically, these ideas help paradox theory reimagining of organizations and strategizing by focusing on 1) how the micro constructs the macro; 2) possibilities for meaningful change; and 3) participatory interactions. By doing so, we argue that Follet pushes paradox scholars to contribute to more radical strategy theorizing.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-14DOI: 10.1177/14761270221144761
Kemal Haşim, Birthe Soppe
We conducted a qualitative study of the category of independent tourism entrepreneurs in the politically contested territory of Northern Cyprus to understand how a collective of entrepreneurs whose shared identity is deeply rooted in place perceives and copes with threats arising in an extreme context. Northern Cyprus is an extreme context as it suffers from enduring political and socio-cultural challenges. Our findings reveal that the entrepreneurs’ collective identity is rooted in a deep-seated attachment to local family, culture, and region. This place-based collective identity drives not only their entrepreneurial engagement, but also their explicit concern for cultural suppression and dilution as a core identity threat and commons problem within the extreme context. Our findings show how the place-based entrepreneurs, in coping with this threat, become custodians of local culture as they engage in a set of collective custodial activities aimed at preserving the local cultural heritage. Our study holds important contributions for research on categories and place, custodianship, and entrepreneurship in extreme contexts.
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