Entrepreneuring as Emancipation

An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

“…While this literature offers useful insight into the challenges of established social enterprises, it does not address the processes through which entrepreneurs create these organizations. This gap is mirrored in the entrepreneurship literature, which concedes that entrepreneurs may have nonpecuniary motives (Rindova et al, 2009) potentially related to social welfare aims (Miller et al, 2012), but says little about how, why, or with what consequence different entrepreneurs might combine these with financial goals. As such, existing knowledge of social enterprise is largely disconnected from the core mechanisms of entrepreneurship.…”

“…As we outline in Table 1, when each logic is associated with a personal identity, we expect there will be minimal impact on the development of social enterprise opportunities. As discussed above, personal identities affect how an actor behaves in other identities, and may thus shape how an individual behaves as an entrepreneur and evaluates potential ventures (Hitlin, 2003;Rindova et al, 2009). However, these identities do not furnish the requisite knowledge and competencies to develop an opportunity in a specific domain (Zott & Amit, 2007).…”

“…Unlike work contexts that often allow little discretion for the enactment of personal identities (Grant & Rothbard, 2013), entrepreneurship entails breaking free from such constraints (Rindova et al, 2009). This latitude has been shown to shape the goals that an entrepreneur pursues in a venture, and the criteria by which she evaluates its success.…”

Microfranchise emergence and its impact on entrepreneurship

“…As key non-monetary motivators for engaging in the entrepreneurial process (Rindova, Barry and Ketchen 2009;Zhu, Chen and Li 2011), these concepts continue to be studied, particularly among nascent entrepreneurs. Autonomy is defined as "the ability to work independently, make decisions, and take actions aimed at bringing forth a business concept or vision and carrying it through to completion" (Lumpkin andDess 1996 in Lumpkin, Cogliser andSchneider 2009 pp 62-63) with independent thinking and action part and parcel of autonomy.…”

Making Sense of Africa's Emerging Digital Transformation and its Many Futures

“…The actions driving the alteration and genesis of environments are themselves driven by a broad variety of individual actors or groups of actors and denote microlevel actions that resemble other concepts, such as institutional work (Lawrence, Suddaby, & Leca, 2009), strategizing (Vaara & Whittington, 2012) or entrepreneuring (Rindova, Barry, & Ketchen, 2009), and are intimately intertwined with technology entrepreneurship (Beckman, Eisenhardt, Kotha, Meyer, & Rajagopalan, 2012). Put differently, by designing and commercializing digital technologies (Avle & Lindtner, 2016), creating firms and anchoring new industry sectors on the African continent (Weiss & Weber, 2017a) more is at work than substantively meets the eye (Ndemo & Weiss, 2017).…”