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A Future for Organization Theory: Living in and Living with Changing Organizations
"... We believe that the field of organization theory is adrift. In sailing jargon, we are “in irons”—stalled and making little headway toward understanding organizations and their place in our lives. We first attempt to diagnose our maladies and then, in this light, offer three broad research questions ..."
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We believe that the field of organization theory is adrift. In sailing jargon, we are “in irons”—stalled and making little headway toward understanding organizations and their place in our lives. We first attempt to diagnose our maladies and then, in this light, offer three broad research questions that just might reinvigorate our work: First, how can we understand today’s changing organizations? Second, how can we live in these organizations? And third, how can we best live with them? We close by calling attention to how our familiar approaches to building and testing theory might hamper any attempt to revitalize our field. Key words: organization theory; twenty-first century organizations; theory-building agenda We are adrift. The work of organization theorists has been called everything from solipsistic to dangerous, and prominent scholars are concerned. Augier et al. (2005) and Scott (2004) took stock of our field’s history and concluded that our research questions may be constrained by our perhaps too-comfortable academic affiliations with business schools and their economicsoriented, probusiness ethos. Hinings and Greenwood
Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Whither the Promise? Moving Forward with Entrepreneurship As a Science of the Artificial. Academy of Management Review
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250050207 Wood, M.S., & Pearson, J.M. (2009). Taken on Faith? The Impact of Uncertainty, Knowledge Relatedness, and Richness of Information on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Exploitation. Journal of Leadership & Organizati
, 2012
"... In this article we speak of roads taken and paths yet to be traversed. Over the past decade, entrepreneurship researchers have accumulated considerable work related to opportunities. Here we outline new possibilities opened up by that work and seek to recast entrepreneurship as a science of the arti ..."
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In this article we speak of roads taken and paths yet to be traversed. Over the past decade, entrepreneurship researchers have accumulated considerable work related to opportunities. Here we outline new possibilities opened up by that work and seek to recast entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial in three ways: understanding opportunities as made as well as found, moving beyond new combinations to trans-formations, and developing a new nexus around actions and interactions. In “The Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research ” (hereon referred to as “Prom-
A model of social entrepreneurial discovery
- Journal of Business Ethics
, 2009
"... ABSTRACT. Social entrepreneurship activity continues to surge tremendously in market and economic systems around the world. Yet, social entrepreneurship theory and understanding lag far behind its practice. For instance, the nature of the entrepreneurial discovery phenomenon, a critical area of inqu ..."
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ABSTRACT. Social entrepreneurship activity continues to surge tremendously in market and economic systems around the world. Yet, social entrepreneurship theory and understanding lag far behind its practice. For instance, the nature of the entrepreneurial discovery phenomenon, a critical area of inquiry in general entrepreneurship theory, receives no attention in the specific context of social entrepreneurship. To address the gap, we concep-tualize social entrepreneurial discovery based on an extension of corporate social responsibility into social entrepreneurship contexts. We develop a model that emphasizes mobilization and timing as underpinnings of social entrepreneurial discovery and offer distinct con-ceptual aspects and theoretic propositions instrumental to future social entrepreneurship research. KEY WORDS: entrepreneurial discovery, opportunity, social entrepreneurship It is widely acknowledged that social entrepreneur-ship is an effective mechanism for generating value in societal, economic, and environmental forms
Multilevel challenges and opportunities in social capital research
- Journal of Management
, 2011
"... Social capital refers to the resources derived from social relationships. Although the concept of social capital has been applied at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis, researchers have yet to fully embrace social capital’s potential as a multilevel lens through which we mi ..."
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Social capital refers to the resources derived from social relationships. Although the concept of social capital has been applied at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis, researchers have yet to fully embrace social capital’s potential as a multilevel lens through which we might better understand management and organizational phenomena. With a central objective of advancing social capital’s potential as a multilevel theoretical perspective, the authors make two contributions to the management literature. First, the authors comprehen-sively review two decades of management research to highlight how social capital has been empirically applied across levels of analysis. Second, based on the shortcomings and challenges revealed through the literature review, the authors identify and discuss avenues for future mul-tilevel research, including suggestions for both macro and micro researchers.
Collective Entrepreneurship in a Mennonite Community
- in Paraguay.” Latin American Business Review
, 2007
"... ABSTRACT. This article examines the impact of prevailing religious beliefs on the dominant view toward work and achievement. The focus of the article is the Menno Colony of the Chaco, one of the Mennonite communities in Paraguay. It illustrates that the values of this religious minority appear to fa ..."
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ABSTRACT. This article examines the impact of prevailing religious beliefs on the dominant view toward work and achievement. The focus of the article is the Menno Colony of the Chaco, one of the Mennonite communities in Paraguay. It illustrates that the values of this religious minority appear to facilitate successful collective entrepreneurship. Here, religion values asceticism, frugality, and thrift, but not private property. Entrepreneurship takes a collective form, and cooperatives Leo-Paul Dana is tenured at the University of Canterbury, holds B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from McGill University, and a Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. He has an extensive research back-ground studying entrepreneurship in different cultures. Address correspon-
West Meets East: New Concepts and Theories
- Academy of Management Journal
, 2011
"... Management scholarship has grown tremendously over the past 60 years. Most of our paradigms originated from North America in the 1950s to the 1980s, inspired by the empirical phenomena and cultural, philosophical, and research traditions of the time. Here following, we highlight the contextual diff ..."
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Management scholarship has grown tremendously over the past 60 years. Most of our paradigms originated from North America in the 1950s to the 1980s, inspired by the empirical phenomena and cultural, philosophical, and research traditions of the time. Here following, we highlight the contextual differences between the East and the West in terms of institutions, philosophies, and cultural values and how they are manifest in contemporary management practices. Inspired by theory development in management studies over time, we offer insights into the conditions facilitating new theories, and how these might apply to emergent theories from the East. We discuss the contributions of the six papers included in this special research forum as exemplars of integrating Eastern concepts and contexts to enrich existing management theories. We highlight the difficulty with testing Eastern constructs as distinct from Western ones by discussing the properties of equivalence, salience, and infusion in constructs. We provide directions for future research and encourage an agentic view to creating new theories and paradigms.
Family social capital, venture preparedness, and start-up decisions: A study of Hispanic entrepreneurs in New England
- Family Business Review
, 2009
"... Using insights from the resource-based view, social capital, and network theories, the authors develop a model of how family social capital, as well as an entrepreneur’s knowledge capital and external social capital, influences the venture creation process. The model is tested on a sample of 85 nasc ..."
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Using insights from the resource-based view, social capital, and network theories, the authors develop a model of how family social capital, as well as an entrepreneur’s knowledge capital and external social capital, influences the venture creation process. The model is tested on a sample of 85 nascent Hispanic entrepreneurs. Results indicate that family social capital, measured as family support, contributes to venture preparedness and the start-up decision, suggesting that it has both a direct and an indirect influence on venture creation.
The Difference Culture Makes: The Competitive Advantage of Reciprocal, Non-Monetary Exchange
- University of Toronto
, 2012
"... Increasingly, the relationship of business to the communities in which it operates is the focus of attention among management scholars. In this paper I wish to go beyond the view that communities should be seen as stakeholders and/or as the target of corporate social responsibility. I will argue tha ..."
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Increasingly, the relationship of business to the communities in which it operates is the focus of attention among management scholars. In this paper I wish to go beyond the view that communities should be seen as stakeholders and/or as the target of corporate social responsibility. I will argue that certain cultural endowments in certain communities may in fact contribute a sustained advantage to enterprises embedded in those communities. I will focus on a concentrated form of this embeddedness: ‘Community-Based Enterprises’: ventures in which communities act collectively as both entrepreneur and enterprise. An outline of the conditions in which they typically arise, the features they characteristically display—especially their blend of social and economic goals—and their participation in the global economy, offer fertile suggestions as to the way that their cultural endowments contribute a rich supply of non-monetary resources to their operations. These resources can constitute an important and sustained competitive advantage. The article recognises important challenges faced by these remarkable ventures, before drawing some provisional conclusions and suggestions for further enquiry.
of LaborFor Benevolence and for Self-Interest: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations
"... Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international resear ..."
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Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. IZA Discussion Paper No. 5770
Social Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: A Focus on the Institutional Environment and Social Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy
"... Consistent with the notion that the institutional environment affects entrepreneurial activity, this article interrogates how a person's willingness to pursue social entrepreneurship is connected with self-efficacy beliefs. Hypotheses are formulated in terms of South Africa's regulatory, ..."
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Consistent with the notion that the institutional environment affects entrepreneurial activity, this article interrogates how a person's willingness to pursue social entrepreneurship is connected with self-efficacy beliefs. Hypotheses are formulated in terms of South Africa's regulatory, normative, and cognitive institutional profiles relating to an individual's social entrepreneurship self-efficacy. Findings indicate favourable perceptions of the regulatory and normative dimensions, which are associated with higher levels of self-efficacy. Implications imply that although institutional support mechanisms are essential to increase social business practices, ultimately social entrepreneurship can only spread by fostering individual self-beliefs.
