المؤلفون: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Yen, Julie

المصدر: Administrative Science Quarterly; Jun2024, Vol. 69 Issue 2, p515-567, 53p

مصطلحات موضوعية: PROSOCIAL behavior, PROFESSIONAL identity, PROFESSIONAL employees, GROUP identity, SOCIAL entrepreneurship, SOCIAL responsibility of business, ELITE (Social sciences), POWER (Social sciences), EXPERTISE

مستخلص: Many professionals want to both achieve professional success and contribute to society. Yet, in some professional contexts, these aims are in tension because serving elite clients is considered the pinnacle of professional success, but professionals themselves may view serving this clientele as antithetical to making a societal contribution. Drawing on interviews with 84 architects and designers who self-identify as people seeking to contribute to society—that is, who hold a prosocial identity—we develop theory about how professionals navigate tensions between their prosocial and professional identities and with what consequences for their work with clients. We identified four strategies that professionals used to ease these tensions, all of which gave the prosocially oriented professionals a sense of identity integration. However, these strategies differently shaped professionals' approach to power relations with the client, depending on the client's status and the types of knowledge and skills each professional viewed as central to their work. Professionals with marginalized social identities, such as women and ethnic/racial minorities, were more likely than others to embrace working with low-status clients and to use broader definitions of the knowledge and skills required for their work. Our findings contribute to scholarship on professional identity construction and prosocial work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Crosina, Eliana

المصدر: Administrative Science Quarterly; Jun2024, Vol. 69 Issue 2, p370-416, 47p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, CORPORATE founders, WORK environment, COMMUNITIES, IDENTITY (Psychology)

مستخلص: Drawing on a 2.5-year ethnography of first-time founders in a coworking facility, I shed light on the process by which founders ascribe self-referential meaning to entrepreneurship—that is, how they develop an entrepreneurial identity in situ. I discovered that founders' use of the coworking space occasioned distinct interaction patterns. Over time, varying interactions played a central role in whether the workspace became a community or remained a mere office space to these founders. Such emergent spatial meanings were coupled with whether founders themselves developed as entrepreneurs or not within their workspace. Founders' perceptions of the workspace as a community were generally associated with their identifying more as entrepreneurs, while their perceptions of the workspace as an office were usually linked with their identifying less, and even disidentifying, as entrepreneurs. In explaining these dynamics, I contribute to research on identity and space, research on entrepreneurial identity, and broader scholarship on space and interactions in organizations. For first-time founders, the meanings associated with being an entrepreneur can be equivocal, and where they work helps to shape their answers to the questions "What is entrepreneurship to me?" and "Who am I?" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Sinha, Sylvana Quader

المصدر: Harvard Business Review; May/Jun2024, Vol. 102 Issue 3, p34-39, 6p, 3 Color Photographs

مصطلحات موضوعية: HEALTH care industry, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, NEW business enterprises, WOMEN chief executive officers, WOMEN-owned business enterprises, BANGLADESHI Americans, EMERGING markets

مصطلحات جغرافية: BANGLADESH

مستخلص: Although the author’s grandfather founded the largest pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh, she never expected to follow in his footsteps. Raised in Roanoke, Virginia, she studied international development and law before working first as a corporate lawyer and then in the Obama administration. But when her mother fell seriously ill during a family wedding in Bangladesh—and Sinha discovered how difficult it was to get access to quality health care in that country even for well-off, well-connected families—she found a new mission. She developed a business plan for a state-of-the-art, full-service primary-care facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital city, and moved there—where she’d never lived before—to launch it. She focused on hiring a great team and building a culture around the distinctive service they would offer. Five years later, Praava Health has served 600,000 patients, is cash-flow positive, and continues to grow. INSET: SMILE: Praava's Five Values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Maciel, Andre F, Weinberger, Michelle F

المصدر: Journal of Consumer Research; Apr2024, Vol. 50 Issue 6, p1221-1242, 22p

مصطلحات موضوعية: CROWD funding, CONSUMER behavior, PROSOCIAL behavior, CAPITAL, ELECTRONIC money, GIFT giving, INNOVATION management, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, DEMOCRATIZATION

مستخلص: Reward-based crowdfunding has enabled an unprecedented number of consumers to provision capital for commercial and artistic ventures. Each year, consumers use digital platforms to transfer billions of dollars to entrepreneurs and artists to help them develop a wide range of market innovations. Notably, these consumers obtain no financial benefits, no formal guarantee that their money will be used aptly, and no reimbursement options. Under such materially unfavorable conditions, why do consumers transfer their money to these producers? The present research answers this question by introducing the concept of a "market-fostering gift system": a social contract that entices consumers to fund the creation and enhancement of market offerings by mobilizing the logic and practices of gift-giving. This conceptualization includes the core stakeholders, processes, outcomes, and shortcomings of reward-based crowdfunding, providing theoretical structure to this consequential articulation of platform capitalism. In addition, this conceptualization advances theory about how gift and market economies intersect. Whereas previous research emphasizes the tensions that characterize their interface, this article brings to the fore the complementary, scalable relationship between gift-giving and market exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Ramoglou, Stratos, McMullen, Jeffery S.

المصدر: Academy of Management Review; Apr2024, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p466-471, 6p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, METAPHYSICS, PHILOSOPHY, OPPORTUNITY

People: WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig, 1889-1951

مستخلص: This article explores the positives and negatives of philosophy in management research with a response from the original authors, Ramoglou and McMullen, to commentaries on their 2024 article “What is an opportunity?: From theoretical mystification to everyday understanding.” Their response includes a defense of their anti-metaphysical perspective in entrepreneurship theory.

المؤلفون: Mitchell, J. Robert, Israelsen, Trevor L., Mitchell, Ronald K., Hua, Wei

المصدر: Academy of Management Review; Apr2024, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p462-466, 5p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, LANGUAGE & languages, CONVERSATION, BUSINESSPEOPLE, NARRATIVES

مستخلص: This article is a commentary on Ramoglou and McMullen’s 2024 article “What is an opportunity?: From theoretical mystification to everyday understanding.” The original article is discussed here with a focus on the philosophy of ordinary language and actualization theory in the context of entrepreneurship theory.

المؤلفون: Leunbach, Daniel

المصدر: Academy of Management Review; Apr2024, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p457-462, 6p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, LANGUAGE & languages, BUSINESSPEOPLE, LINGUISTICS, PHILOSOPHY

People: WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig, 1889-1951

مستخلص: This article is a commentary on Ramoglou and McMullen’s 2024 article “What is an opportunity?: From theoretical mystification to everyday understanding.” As in the original article, the authors here discuss linguistic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work in the context of the application of ordinary language in entrepreneurship.

المؤلفون: Wood, Matthew S., Bakker, Rene M., Fisher, Greg

المصدر: Academy of Management Review; Apr2024, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p440-445, 6p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, BUSINESSPEOPLE, REASONING

مستخلص: This article is a response to a continuing discussion on the original article by Wood, Bakker, and Fisher “Back to the Future: A Time Calibrated Theory of Entrepreneurial Action” and a commentary on it by Professors Van Lent, Hunt, and Lerner. This article, written by the authors of the original article, comments on Van Lent, Hunt and Lerner’s ideas concerning entrepreneurial action theory.

المؤلفون: van Lent, Wim, Hunt, Richard A., Lerner, Daniel A.

المصدر: Academy of Management Review; Apr2024, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p435-440, 6p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, BUSINESSPEOPLE, NARRATIVES, IMPULSIVE personality, INTENTION

مستخلص: This article is a commentary on the Wood, Bakker and Fisher 2021 article “Back to the future: A time-calibrated theory of entrepreneurial action.” Here, the authors focus on impulsivity, narrativity, and the intentionality bias in the context of temporality in entrepreneurship action theory.

المؤلفون: Ramoglou, Stratos, McMullen, Jeffery S.

المصدر: Academy of Management Review; Apr2024, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p273-298, 26p

مصطلحات موضوعية: OPPORTUNITY, PHILOSOPHY, MEANING (Philosophy), ENTREPRENEURSHIP, BUSINESSPEOPLE, SELF-actualization (Psychology), UNCERTAINTY

People: WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig, 1889-1951

مستخلص: Expressions about opportunities are used unproblematically in everyday contexts. Yet, the question "What is an opportunity?" has posed a difficult riddle in the academic study of entrepreneurship. Drawing on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, we explain that such perplexities are common when words are removed from ordinary language and intellectuals try to grasp what they name. Approaching the opportunity riddle differently, we ask, "How do entrepreneurs use the word 'opportunity?'" and elucidate an actualization theory of entrepreneurship attuned to the everyday understandings that underlie the meaningful use of the word. Bringing implicit understandings to the foreground contributes to (a) dissolving the mystification over the nature of "opportunity"; (b) clarifying the conceptual foundations of entrepreneurship theory; and (c) reorienting the field toward more conceptually precise ways of thinking about Knightian uncertainty, entrepreneurial success, and the entrepreneurial process. This paper also contributes to the methodology of management studies by demonstrating how attention to the logic of ordinary language can alert us to theoretical dead-ends and enable the development of theory that bridges academic and everyday understandings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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