Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1177/14657503241245610
Soumodip Sarkar, Sara Mateus
This study explores the human and social dynamics of entrepreneurship in the context of disruptive crises, specifically COVID-19. It reveals how digital technologies enable a form of collaborative agency, which we term distributed bricolage, characterized by the emergent, voluntary collaboration of heterogeneous actors across global networks. These actors, motivated by a shared goal to address urgent needs, engage in designing, hacking, and producing necessary items through agile and responsive collective structures. Analysing the initiatives of six diverse and impactful groups, our research highlights the transition from individual to collective entrepreneurial agency, underscoring the ability of distributed networks to self-organize and implement innovative solutions with available resources. We contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by delving into the ‘make do’ attitude across initiatives, shifting the spotlight from individual agency to a network of distributed actors, who are capable of self-organizing and operating effectively. This study extends the bricolage concept by showcasing the networked, socialized nature of entrepreneurial action, moving beyond the traditional focus on individual agency to a more inclusive understanding of distributed and collaborative efforts afforded by digital technologies.
本研究探讨了在破坏性危机（特别是 COVID-19）背景下创业的人类和社会动态。它揭示了数字技术是如何促成一种协作代理形式的，我们称之为 "分布式创新"（distributed bricolage）。这些参与者在解决紧急需求这一共同目标的激励下，通过灵活、反应迅速的集体结构，参与设计、破解和生产必要的物品。我们的研究分析了六个不同的、有影响力的团体的倡议，强调了从个人到集体创业机构的转变，强调了分布式网络利用现有资源自我组织和实施创新解决方案的能力。我们深入探讨了各种倡议中的 "make do "态度，将焦点从个人代理转移到能够自我组织并有效运作的分布式行动者网络，从而为创业文献做出了贡献。本研究通过展示创业行动的网络化和社会化性质，扩展了 "bicolage "概念，超越了传统上对个体代理的关注，对数字技术所带来的分布式协作努力有了更全面的理解。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1177/14657503241245555
Basel Hammoda
Entrepreneurship research as a field is going through a transformational phase along its growth trajectory, with its practical relevance being put under the spotlight, triggered by the rapid changes in markets and the external environment. While it originated as a practice-based field a few decades ago, it has grown distant from real life in recent years due to several factors. Extant literature on the research-practice gap has been rather prescriptive or focused on one part of the problem only. This led to scholarly calls for more theory-building and inclusive approach in addressing it. This note proposes a processual model to theorize practicality as a field of inquiry. The model is formed of four phases that reflect the normative process of scientific research and highlight the shared responsibility of academia and industry. The antecedents of each phase are discussed and potential measures to resolve them are proposed, guided by literature and real-life examples.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1177/14657503241236708
Melissa Mesek, Alejandro Jordan Pérez-Landa, Anne MJ Smith, Vasilios Stouraitis, Shariq Sheikh
After Brexit, pandemics and through continuing global economic shocks, the rural third sector continues to navigate a landscape of crisis and challenge while serving communities. We examine Scottish Government policy for the rural third sector and policy implementation mechanisms. Our paper argues, and our evidence shows, that current policy is aspirational and there are deficiencies between rural third sector policy making, policy implementation and the voice of rural communities. Our critical review of Scottish Government documentation examined policy for the third sector in rural conditions, then continued to search government documentation for evidence of action plans and viable implementation strategies. We found that policy makers were aspirational, there are few mechanisms or action plans that support sustainable policy implementation and limited examples of ongoing community consultation. The concern is that while gaps exist between policy making and implementation, government policy will underperform leaving a rural third sector struggling to service their communities and deliver their social mission.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1177/14657503241238690
Mato James Magobe, Antonio C. Malfense-Fierro, Ming (Lily) Li, Steve Johnson
Resource mobilisation is challenging for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in developing countries characterised by resource constraints and market uncertainties. In response to these challenges, many SMEs rely on bricolage to pursue innovation. This study explores the antecedents of bricolage and examines the relationship between bricolage and innovation. The study employs partial least squares structural equation modelling to analyse data from 229 SMEs in the Tanzanian food and drink industry. The findings reveal that financial and market constraints are important antecedents of bricolage among innovative firms and demonstrate that bricolage is positively associated with innovation. Knowledge and/or regulatory constraints do not appear to be significantly associated with bricolage among the sampled SMEs. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings include the need for support agencies and policymakers to recognise the importance of supporting SMEs to address innovation constraints by optimising bricolage behaviour.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1177/14657503241238691
Joseph D Fox
The study of artificial intelligence is of increasing importance in the entrepreneurial domain. Despite the popularity of many artificial intelligence models, experimental studies in entrepreneurship that apply models are subject to replicability issues if they are not properly reported on. This note is a call to adopt a method of reporting on artificial intelligence models commonly used in the open source software community to ensure progress in future studies and to offer researchers a reflective opportunity to consider the appropriateness of models they use in experimental studies.
{"title":"Reporting on artificial intelligence use in entrepreneurship research: Using a model card","authors":"Joseph D Fox","doi":"10.1177/14657503241238691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503241238691","url":null,"abstract":"The study of artificial intelligence is of increasing importance in the entrepreneurial domain. Despite the popularity of many artificial intelligence models, experimental studies in entrepreneurship that apply models are subject to replicability issues if they are not properly reported on. This note is a call to adopt a method of reporting on artificial intelligence models commonly used in the open source software community to ensure progress in future studies and to offer researchers a reflective opportunity to consider the appropriateness of models they use in experimental studies.","PeriodicalId":501176,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140154196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1177/14657503241229691
Kingsley Obi Omeihe, Ibiyemi Omeihe
A field study involving 35 institutionally constrained small and medium enterprises (SMEs) was conducted to investigate how entrepreneurs operating in developing economies draw on norms in the absence of formal institutional support. Employing a qualitative approach, our findings revealed that the institutional logics perspective, which presupposes an understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour, provided insights into many of the decisions observed within the SMEs. Our interview data revealed how a variety of culturally specific norms, including those influenced by kinship, religion and trade associations, played a pivotal role in structuring market-oriented economic activities. Central to our contribution is the concept that norms play a crucial role in enforcing trade agreements. This suggests that in situations where actors cannot rely on formal institutional arrangements, norms not only limit opportunistic behaviour but also foster trust within networks. Our paper makes a significant contribution to the field of entrepreneurship by addressing issues related to norms and SMEs within economic-institutional contexts that have been largely overlooked.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1177/14657503241236713
Ruth Cherrington, Constantine Manolchev, Kirstie Edwards, Isabelle Housni, Allen Alexander
While much research has focused on embedding circular economy (CE) practices in urban contexts, there is growing interest in the opportunities and challenges of rural settings. Adopting a regional lens can account for local knowledge, collective practices and community memory, yet CE conceptualisations often lack both a place-based dimension and a consideration of regional stakeholders. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of various stakeholders, in driving the adoption and implementation of CE practices at a regional level. We do this through engagement with 31 participants from business, governance and community groups in a peripheral region situated in the Southwest of the UK. Using stakeholder theory and thematic analysis of interviews, participant observation and workshop scripts, we identify ‘influencers’ as a key stakeholder group leading the implementation of regional CE goals and practices. Furthermore, we highlight key barriers and enabling factors which underpin interactions among different stakeholder groups and discuss their implications for regional CE transition.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1177/14657503241235812
Erika Perttunen, Summer D Jung, Maria Talvinko, Tua A Björklund
Crises act as critical episodes for entrepreneurs, bringing about unexpected changes and heightened uncertainty. Yet crises can also have an enabling impact, creating new opportunities. This study explores how the COVID-19 pandemic enabled new opportunities for 30 Finnish and 34 Californian food and beverage ventures. We demonstrate how the pandemic enabled the ventures’ crisis responses through various different types of mechanisms in various pairings and with different logics of enablement. Our findings suggest that the crisis profile and entrepreneurial action interact to shape the impact of the crisis and the ability of ventures to leverage its enabling effect. The enabler mechanisms can result straightforwardly from changes not only in resources and demand, but also in a more complex manner due to the ideological shifts arising from crises. Also, the mechanisms pair with each other to enable ventures’ actions, either working concurrently or consecutively. Oftentimes, the creative manner in which the ventures leverage these pairings resembles bricolage. Better awareness of how the crisis-induced enabler mechanisms operate and interact can lead to more effective and resilient crisis responses.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-16DOI: 10.1177/14657503241230946
Pattanapong Tiwasing, John Agyekum Addae, Francis Zana Naab, Gilbert Zana Naab
This study examines the impact of mobile money services on business performance by comparing the performance between businesses that use and do not use mobile money. The analysis empirically draws on cross-sectional data of 1001 Kenyan businesses from the 2018 World Bank Enterprise Survey. Propensity Score Matching is used to control for selection bias and variations in business characteristics. The results reveal that businesses that use mobile money services are more likely to be innovative in products and processes than non-users. However, they perform as well as businesses that do not use mobile money. The results also show that differences in business-specific characteristics such as business size, sector, location, and business obstacles significantly influence the adoption of mobile money by Kenyan businesses. Therefore, these results highlight the importance of mobile money services for Kenyan businesses with effective digital tools and support. Policy recommendations to enhance the financial mobile ecosystem and financial inclusion are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1177/14657503231224613
Polina Baranova
The article explores the value of stakeholder diversity for learning towards pro-environmental entrepreneurship in multi-stakeholder networks (MSNs). Networks are viewed as entrepreneurial learning settings where stakeholder diversity frames the access to knowledge, practice and stakeholder dialogues. A qualitative case study research design is used to explore the experiences of learning towards pro-environmental entrepreneurship across 15 organisations as part of a well-established MSN with over 140 members operating in the Midlands. Stakeholder dialogues are identified as a significant feature of the MSN and reveal the policy–practice interface. The article shows how learning in MSNs is informed by the policy–practice interface, and as such expose the policy–practice gap and orient entrepreneurial behaviour. A view of an MSN as a dynamic learning system that brings together, often conflicting, agendas of environmental stakeholders and supports development of pro-environmental entrepreneurshipas a pathway to sustainable regional development is argued. Policy makers and business support agencies are advised to pay a close attention to MSNs as mechanisms for the development of entrepreneurial activity which is policy attuned, practice informed and environmental sustainability oriented.
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