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Cultural Entrepreneurship: Stories, Legitimacy and the Acquisition of Resources
- Strategic Management Journal
, 2001
"... We define cultural entrepreneurship as the process of storytelling that mediates between extant stocks of entrepreneurial resources and subsequent capital acquisition and wealth creation. We propose a framework that focuses on how entrepreneurial stories facilitate the crafting of a new venture iden ..."
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We define cultural entrepreneurship as the process of storytelling that mediates between extant stocks of entrepreneurial resources and subsequent capital acquisition and wealth creation. We propose a framework that focuses on how entrepreneurial stories facilitate the crafting of a new venture identity that serves as a touchstone upon which legitimacy may be conferred by investors, competitors, and consumers, opening up access to new capital and market opportunities. Stories help create competitive advantage for entrepreneurs through focal content shaped by two key forms of entrepreneurial capital: firm-specific resource capital and industry-level institutional capital. We illustrate our ideas with anecdotal entrepreneurial stories that range from contemporary high-technology accounts to the evolution of the mutual fund industry. Propositions are offered to guide future empirical research based on our framework. Theoretically, we aim to extend recent efforts to synthesize strategic and institutional perspectives by incorporating insights from contemporary approaches to culture and organizational identity. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. It is a virtual truism that stories of entrepreneurs have long been celebrated in the media, trade
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"... Integral inequality. In this paper, an integral inequality is studied. An answer to an open problem proposed by Feng Qi and Yin Chen and John Kimball is given. Many thanks to Professor Feng Qi for his comments. The authors also want to give their deep gratitude to the anonymous referee for his/her v ..."
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Integral inequality. In this paper, an integral inequality is studied. An answer to an open problem proposed by Feng Qi and Yin Chen and John Kimball is given. Many thanks to Professor Feng Qi for his comments. The authors also want to give their deep gratitude to the anonymous referee for his/her valuable comments and suggestions on the proof of Theorem 2.2 which made the article more readable. Special thanks goes to the research assistant for the quick responsibility. Notes on an Open Problem Quô ´ c Anh Ngô and Pham Huy Tung vol. 8, iss. 2, art. 41, 2007 Title Page
Many are Called, but Few are Chosen: An Evolutionary Perspective for the Study of Entrepreneurship
"... More than a decade ago, Low and MacMillan identified three elements indispensable to an understanding of entrepreneurial success: process, context, and outcomes. Since their critique, three important advances include (a) a shift in theoretical emphasis from the characteristics of entrepreneurs as in ..."
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More than a decade ago, Low and MacMillan identified three elements indispensable to an understanding of entrepreneurial success: process, context, and outcomes. Since their critique, three important advances include (a) a shift in theoretical emphasis from the characteristics of entrepreneurs as individuals to the consequences of their actions, (b) a deeper understanding of how entrepreneurs use knowledge, networks, and resources to construct firms, and (c) a more sophisticated taxonomy of environmental forces at different levels of analysis (population, community, and society) that affect entrepreneurship. Although our knowledge of entrepreneurial activities has increased dramatically, we still have much to learn about how process and context interact to shape the outcome of entrepreneurial efforts. From an evolutionary approach, process and context (strategy and environment) interact in a recursive continuous process, driving the fate of entrepreneurial efforts. Thus, integrating co...
Adolescents’ uses of media for self-socialization
- J. Youth Adolesc
, 1995
"... The emphasis of this paper is on the role of media in the socialization of adolescents. First, a typology of adolescent media uses is presented, including entertainment, identity formation, high sensation, coping, and youth culture identification. Then, these five uses are discussed in relation to a ..."
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The emphasis of this paper is on the role of media in the socialization of adolescents. First, a typology of adolescent media uses is presented, including entertainment, identity formation, high sensation, coping, and youth culture identification. Then, these five uses are discussed in relation to adolescent so-cialization. The central point of this discussion is that media differ from so-cializing agents such as family, school, community, and the legal system in that adolescents have greater control over their media choices than they do over their socialization from these other sources. The result is a substantial degree of self-socialization, i the sense that adolescents may choose from a diverse range of media materials the ones that best suit their individual pref-erences and personalities. Another esult is that there is often a lack of inte-gration in the socialization of adolescents, in the sense that they may receive different socialization messages from media (and peers) than they do from the adult socializers in their immediate nvironment.
Institutional entrepreneurship, partaking, and convening
- Organization Studies
"... This paper proposes that processes of institutional change vary depending on the form taken by the three factors that define them: agency, resource mobilization, and opportunity. The paper builds on a conceptualization of agency that considers that change may result from diverse forms of agency (i.e ..."
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This paper proposes that processes of institutional change vary depending on the form taken by the three factors that define them: agency, resource mobilization, and opportunity. The paper builds on a conceptualization of agency that considers that change may result from diverse forms of agency (i.e. strategic, routine, and sense-making). It develops the concept of resource mobilization, focusing on the process as opposed to the skills required for mobilization. It then suggests that the mobilization of resources, support and acceptance, accompanying the diffusion and legitimation of institutional changes may follow leverage, partaking, or convening processes. Finally, the paper defines institutional opportunity as an objective condition of organizational fields, suggesting that fields may be opportunity opaque, transparent, or hazy. Opportunities, of course, only become real when perceived by actors. Building on current sociological work, the paper suggests that actors ’ perception of the opportunity transparency of fields varies with their temporal orientation and social networks. Considering the possible variations of agency, resource mobilization, and opportunity, and how they may combine, the paper defines three profiles of institutional change: entrepreneurship, partaking, and convening.
Is extreme right-wing populism contagious? Explaining the emergence of a new party family
- European Journal of Political Research
, 2005
"... Abstract. This article presents a new model for explaining the emergence of the party family of extreme right-wing populist parties in Western Europe. As the old master frame of the extreme right was rendered impotent by the outcome of the Second World War, it took the innovation of a new, potent ma ..."
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Abstract. This article presents a new model for explaining the emergence of the party family of extreme right-wing populist parties in Western Europe. As the old master frame of the extreme right was rendered impotent by the outcome of the Second World War, it took the innovation of a new, potent master frame before the extreme right was able to break elec-toral marginalization. Such a master frame – combining ethnonationalist xenophobia, based on the doctrine of ethnopluralism, with anti-political-establishment populism – evolved in the 1970s, and was made known as a successful frame in connection with the electoral break-through of the French Front National in 1984. This event started a process of cross-national diffusion, where embryonic extreme right-wing groups and networks elsewhere adopted the new frame. Hence, the emergence of similar parties, clustered in time (i.e., the birth of a new party family) had less to do with structural factors influencing different political systems in similar ways as with cross-national diffusion of frames. The innovation and diffusion of the new master frame was a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the emergence of extreme right-wing populist parties. In order to complete the model, a short list of different political opportunity structures is added.
Framing Contests: Strategy Making Under Uncertainty
- Organization Science
"... Abstract: I develop a model of framing contests to elucidate how cognitive frames influence organizational strategy making. Using ethnographic techniques to study the day-to-day practices of strategy making in one firm, I examine the ways actors attempted to transform their own cognitive frames of a ..."
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Abstract: I develop a model of framing contests to elucidate how cognitive frames influence organizational strategy making. Using ethnographic techniques to study the day-to-day practices of strategy making in one firm, I examine the ways actors attempted to transform their own cognitive frames of a situation into predominant frames through a series of interactions. Frames are the means by which managers make sense of ambiguous information from their environments. Actors each had cognitive frames about the direction the market was taking and about what kinds of solutions would be appropriate. Where frames about a strategic choice were not congruent, actors engaged in highly political framing practices to make their frames resonate and to mobilize action in their favor. Those actors who most skillfully engaged in these practices shaped the frame which prevailed in the organization. This framing perspective suggests that frames are not only instrumental tools for the ex post justification of actions taken through power but rather are an ex ante part of the political process that produces decisions.
Identities, genres, and organizational forms
- Organization Science
, 2005
"... * This paper draws on ongoing collaborative research with László Pólos, Glenn Carroll, and Jim Baron. Over the past two decades, macro research on organizations has converged on a research strategy of analyzing the life histories of (all) organizations in specified populations. An organizational pop ..."
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* This paper draws on ongoing collaborative research with László Pólos, Glenn Carroll, and Jim Baron. Over the past two decades, macro research on organizations has converged on a research strategy of analyzing the life histories of (all) organizations in specified populations. An organizational population is regarded as a collection of organizations with a common form. The development and refinement of this strategy has been beneficial in promoting certain craft standards then largely lacking in organizational research and in increasing the comparability of findings across studies. Yet, continued progress requires that the theoretical foundations of this approach be reworked. In particular, the basic concept of form lacks a clear specification. Current work continues to refer to initial formulations that spelled out only partial definitions (e.g., Hannan and Freeman 1977; 1984). As a result, guidelines for a crucial step in empirical research—the specification of meaningful population boundaries—are less than clear. As this style of research has diffused broadly beyond the relatively homogeneous group of organizational ecologists, such lack of clarity has become increasingly problematic. Fortunately, several strands of work have advanced our understanding of the issues involved
Idea habitats: How the prevalence of environmental cues influences the success of ideas
- Cognitive Science
, 2005
"... We investigate 1 factor that influences the success of ideas or cultural representations by proposing that they have a habitat, that is, a set of environmental cues that encourages people to recall and transmit them. We test 2 hypotheses: (a) fluctuation: the success of an idea will vary over time w ..."
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We investigate 1 factor that influences the success of ideas or cultural representations by proposing that they have a habitat, that is, a set of environmental cues that encourages people to recall and transmit them. We test 2 hypotheses: (a) fluctuation: the success of an idea will vary over time with fluctuations in its habitat, and (b) competition: ideas with more prevalent habitats will be more successful. Four stud-ies use subject ratings and data from newspapers to provide correlational support for our 2 hypotheses, with a negative factoid, positive rumor, catchphrases, and variants of a proverb. Three additional experi-mental studies manipulate the topic of actual conversations and find empirical support for our theory, with catchphrases, proverbs, and slang. The discussion examines how habitat prevalence applies to a more extensive class of ideas and suggests how habitats may influence the process by which ideas evolve.
Identity as narrative: Prevalence, effectiveness, and consequences of narrative identity work in macro work role transitions
- Academy of Management Review
, 2010
"... Identity as narrative: Prevalence, effectiveness and consequences of narrative identity work in macro work role transitions Contact ..."
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Identity as narrative: Prevalence, effectiveness and consequences of narrative identity work in macro work role transitions Contact
