Envisioning Entrepreneurial Engagement in North Korea

Kibler, Ewald; Ginting-Szczesny, Bernadetta Aloina; Vaara, Eero; Heikkilä, Jukka-Pekka

doi:10.5465/amd.2020.0066

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“…Third, our sense of place is informed by the projective meanings we assign to a place (Kibler et al, 2021). There is little research on how a future-oriented approach to place affects our sense of place.…”

Section: “Sense Of Place” and “Place-making”mentioning

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“…Similarly, our "sense of a work-place" varies according to the situated narratives that we develop to imagine our workplace in the future. For instance, in North Korea, the local level of institutional instability makes it extremely challenging for entrepreneurs to know which forms of entrepreneurial activities are deemed desirable (Kibler et al, 2021). Entrepreneurs rely on prospective narratives of an imagined local future and situated entrepreneurial engagement in that future.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research

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Kibler

Dacin

2022

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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There is increasing interest in organizational scholarship in the role of place. To support these developments, we offer a framework for place-sensitive research in organizational analysis. The notion of place refers to a unique location, endowed with a material from and a socially constructed set of meanings. In line with the phenomenology of place, our framework first distinguishes between two ontologies of place: place as experience—through which people develop a sense of place—and place as practice—through which people engage collectively to make places. Second, our framework distinguishes between three temporal orientations in relation to place: past, present, and future. We then draw from research in geography to reflect on two under-explored methodological toolkits to collect data on and analyze place as experience and place as practice in organization studies: walking interviews, and geographical videography.

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Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research

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2022

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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“…This expanded the theorizing on entrepreneurship outside of the market (e.g. DiLorenzo, 1988;DiMaggio, 1998;Eisenstadt, 1980;Kibler et al, 2021) and while political and institutional entrepreneurship and the possibilities of unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship are important, they are outside of the scope of this paper because they are fundamentally different from market (productive) entrepreneurship. This is because productive entrepreneurship deals with exchange that happens without coercion and it is focused on trying to serve the consumer; while the political kind is inherently coercive, and in those cases exchange happens because one of the parts forces the other to engage in transaction (e.g.…”

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“…He made explicit that the environment matters to action and to its outcomes and pointed to a blind spot in the literature, this pushed researchers to take a step back and try to explain this interplay. His discussion contributed to the development of ideas on how institutions influence uncertainty and, therefore, entrepreneurial action (Frølund, 2021; Kibler et al. , 2021; Smolka and Heugens, 2020).…”

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Entrepreneurship and institutional uncertainty

D’Andrea

2022

JEPP

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PurposeThe study aims to demonstrate how different arrangements and characteristics of institutions can generate or mitigate uncertainty thereby facilitating or hampering the possibilities of entrepreneurial action.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conceptual paper that advances the theoretical understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurial uncertainty and the different institutional levels, their characteristics and their interplay.FindingsEntrepreneurial uncertainty also comes from the institutional environment and this has direct impact on the propensity to take action. The characteristics of the different institutional levels, in specific, their quality, stability, alignment and the burden imposed by L2 impact in the emergence of entrepreneurial uncertainty.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a conceptual paper that makes a number of theoretical suggestions which need to be further analyzed by empirical work.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that different institutional levels need to be dealt with differently by research studies and institutional agents, including policy makers. Among others, the findings also suggest that stability is key to entrepreneurship and that the benefits of high quality regulation can be undermined by its excessive burden, reducing entrepreneurial action and harming development.Social implicationsInstitutional actors should provide stability and allow for the improvement of the environment overall. Specifically, policy makers should aim at good quality regulation that is valid across the board, that provides stability and gives room for improvement of the institutions. Policy makers should refrain from trying to foster specific industries; they should instead provide a leveled playing field without trying to direct the entrepreneurial efforts towards an industry or geographic region and without being overly demeaning.Originality/valueThis research breaks new ground. It unites ideas from entrepreneurship and institutions suggesting a novel, much more nuanced approach to their interplay. The results can be used by scholars in the fields of entrepreneurship, institutions and economic development. They also have the potential to help to educate policy makers in their quest to improve the context for entrepreneurs.

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“…An extreme context is a setting characterized by frequent threatening events that individuals and organizations lack the capacity to prevent and that heavily affect embedded actors by causing significant material, physical, or psychological consequences (Hannah et al, 2009). Extreme contexts, including those characterized by events that disrupt political stability or foster social unrest and cultural suppression, are a ubiquitous phenomenon that affects entrepreneurial collectives worldwide, whether they be entrepreneurs in authoritarian regimes that suppress entrepreneurship such as North Korea (Kibler et al, 2022), entrepreneurs in dangerous and violent environments such as Colombia (Hiatt and Sine, 2014), or independent tourism entrepreneurs facing political instability and socio-cultural threats in the territory of Northern Cyprus, the research setting of our article. Category research has yet to turn explicit attention to categories' collective coping response to extreme contexts.…”

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When entrepreneurs become custodians: Categories’ place-based identity and collective coping response in extreme contexts

Haşim

Soppe

2023

Strategic Organization

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We conducted a qualitative study of the category of independent tourism entrepreneurs in the politically contested territory of Northern Cyprus to understand how a collective of entrepreneurs whose shared identity is deeply rooted in place perceives and copes with threats arising in an extreme context. Northern Cyprus is an extreme context as it suffers from enduring political and socio-cultural challenges. Our findings reveal that the entrepreneurs’ collective identity is rooted in a deep-seated attachment to local family, culture, and region. This place-based collective identity drives not only their entrepreneurial engagement, but also their explicit concern for cultural suppression and dilution as a core identity threat and commons problem within the extreme context. Our findings show how the place-based entrepreneurs, in coping with this threat, become custodians of local culture as they engage in a set of collective custodial activities aimed at preserving the local cultural heritage. Our study holds important contributions for research on categories and place, custodianship, and entrepreneurship in extreme contexts.

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Envisioning Entrepreneurial Engagement in North Korea

Cited by 11 publications

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Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research

Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research

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When entrepreneurs become custodians: Categories’ place-based identity and collective coping response in extreme contexts

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