Developing a Framework for Understanding How Media Entrepreneurs Act: An Actor-Network Perspective

Salamzadeh, Aidin; Arbatani, Taher Roshandel

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-7066-7_5

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“…The opportunity-recognition is critical in new investment creation. In the field of entrepreneurship, opportunity lies at the heart of the theory of entrepreneurship (Salamzadeh & Roshandel Arbatani, 2020). Entrepreneurship initiatives that include ethical mindset prevalent in a locality and the learning trajectories would emphasize the promotion of entrepreneurship and enterprising characteristics.…”

Section: Business Opportunity Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical Review of Entrepreneurial Youth Empowerment Initiatives in South-Western Nigeria

OLADEJI¹,

OYEDIJI²,

ADENIKA³

et al. 2022

IJMRA

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Youth empowerment prepares candidates for new venture initiation by transferring knowledge and developing relevant skills that improve the self-efficacy and effectiveness of the potential entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition is a relevant vehicle for economic development contributing to youth employment worldwide. Over a 50-year period, the Federal, State Government and Private Institutions have established many initiatives with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship. Examples of these Federal youth empowerment initiatives are N-power, Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWin), Youth Empowering People (YEP), Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS), African Youth Empowerment Nigeria (AYEN), TraderMoni, Youth Initiative for Sustainable Agriculture in Nigeria (YISAN) and Presidential Youth Entrepreneurship Support (P-YES). The entrepreneurial components of the youth empowerment programmes of the state government are merely underplayed. Youth empowerment coordinators have not been able to engage empowerment beneficiaries to create and connect entrepreneurial components into an interactive and sustainable business start-up. The study adopts empirical study explored the entrepreneurial youth empowerment initiatives of youths to become self-employed after their initiatives from various empowerment schemes. Qualitative research is concerned with gaining an in-depth understanding of human issues. Findings show that business opportunity recognition influences business sustainability of small-scale businesses. This implies that impact of identifying business opportunities, entrepreneurial knowledge, spotting a particular business industry, transforming business ideas into reality and empowerment initiatives structures influence business sustainability of youth empowerment candidates. The study concludes that entrepreneurial empowerment initiatives have to prepare candidates for new venture opportunities by transferring knowledge and developing relevant skills. The study recommended that state government and private organizations (empowerment organizers) need to create an environment where youth empowerment beneficiaries can identify business opportunities. This will improve the performance by improving business sustainability.

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Section: Business Opportunity Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical Review of Entrepreneurial Youth Empowerment Initiatives in South-Western Nigeria

OLADEJI¹,

OYEDIJI²,

ADENIKA³

et al. 2022

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“…Shifting toward digital platforms has been a trend on global media markets, to meet the increasing need of building immediate and interactive relationship with the audiences (Roshandel Arbatani et al, 2019) as well as the staff inside the organization (Khajeheian, 2018a). Presence in the web space needs new business models to survive the media and guarantee the required profit to continue (Bali & Zarea, 2018;Karimi & Salavatian, 2018;Labafi & Williams, 2018;Salamzadeh & Roshandel Arbatani, 2020;Salimi et al, 2012;Su & Zarea, 2020).Thus the new business models should be capable of keeping the newspapers alive in the new platforms. Most of the Iranian newspapers use the advertising model which consists of completely free content for readers combined with ads.…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Way Ahead: New Business Models and Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political economy of media: An income-expense analysis of state aids to Iranian newspapers

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Iranian newspapers have traditionally relied on state aids and public budget to survive. The dependency has still lingered amid a change of policy that has affected the newspapers’ financial status. This article invokes the available data on governmental support to examine the political economy of newspapers in Iran during the two decades of 1990s and 2000s. The data were collected from official releases by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance as well as several nonconfidential internal bulletins of the newspaper organizations. Having applied an income-expense analysis, the paper explains the government’s role in newspaper economics and discusses the policy of repurposing the existing subsidies.

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“…However, anecdotal and visual evidence, and research investigating entrepreneurial activity in Cambridge based on social capital highlighted the lack of diversity (Myint et al , 2005; Cotton and Kirk, 2012) that was influential in Silicon Valley (Motoyama, 2003; Saxenian, 2000, 2000, 2002b). In fact, policies to encourage cluster formation are crucial for promoting economic development and enhancing innovation (Obadic, 2013) as is an actor-network perspective, for entrepreneurs can create various kinds of relationships in exploiting entrepreneurial opportunity (Salamzadeh and Roshandel Arbatani, 2020).…”

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Exotic meets suave: the micro dynamics of homophily in the Cambridge cluster

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Vyakarnam

Barakat

et al. 2022

JEC

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to discuss how ethnicity and gender influence high-tech entrepreneurship in the Cambridge cluster emphasizing homophily and how and why bridging and bonding ties are created in moving individuals from the periphery to cross the threshold into acceptance. Design/methodology/approach The authors present findings on the micro-dynamics of ethnicity and gender in high-tech entrepreneurship underpinned by homophily. The authors discuss how ethnicity and gender influence who enters and stays in high-tech entrepreneurship university spinouts. Through an entrepreneurial narrative qualitative approach, the authors explore how and why bridging and bonding ties may be created and the challenges for those at the periphery to cross the threshold into acceptance. The study adopts an entrepreneurial narrative qualitative approach using interviews with individuals associated with the Cambridge cluster. Findings The authors add to the entrepreneurship literature by responding to the call for multiplexity within homophily, and the research indicates that homophily strongly influences who enters and who leaves the cluster based on bridging and bonding ties. The findings address the need for more focused understanding of entrepreneurial clusters and how mechanisms can be developed to create an environment to nurture both bridging and bonding ties. It is possible for an entrepreneurial cluster to be perceived as attractive and thriving while being homophilous. Ethnic individuals and women continue to struggle to gain acceptance in the Cambridge cluster. Research limitations/implications Interviews were conducted by one person – an ethnic minority female – for continuity of all interviews. Yet as many of the participants were not minorities, it is possible that an interviewer who was not an ethnic minority may have elicited different narratives. Originality/value The study adds to the entrepreneurship literature by focusing on multiplexity within homophily in examining the dynamics of homophily in the context of the Cambridge cluster and the significance of nurturing bridging and bonding ties. The research comments on implications for practice among three interlinked but autonomous groups: first, the individual entrepreneurs; second, the networks she/he belongs to; third, the university as both fertile ground for entrepreneurship and an educational institution where entrepreneurship education is engaged in for encouraging and supporting spinouts.

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Developing a Framework for Understanding How Media Entrepreneurs Act: An Actor-Network Perspective

Cited by 8 publications

References 85 publications

Empirical Review of Entrepreneurial Youth Empowerment Initiatives in South-Western Nigeria

Empirical Review of Entrepreneurial Youth Empowerment Initiatives in South-Western Nigeria

Political economy of media: An income-expense analysis of state aids to Iranian newspapers

Exotic meets suave: the micro dynamics of homophily in the Cambridge cluster

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