Examining Entrepreneurship Through Indigenous Lenses

Bruton, Garry D.; Zahra, Shaker A.; Cai, Li

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“…On this broader canvass, we built upon contributions on the role of context in organizational scholarship that not only seek enhanced theoretical validity (Johns, 2006;Rousseau & Fried, 2001) but also navigate between the extremes of contextual relativism and decontextualized universalism (Baker & Welter, 2018). And while we sympathize with calls for more plurality and emic perspectives in "indigenous theories" (Bruton et al, 2018;Nkomo, 2011), our ambition was a bit broader than that. We sought to foreground the role of our contextual life-worlds in our scholarly reflexivity (Alvesson et al, 2008), and so to highlight the risks of essentializing not only our phenomena but our own contexts, as well.…”

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Neither Colony Nor Enclave: Calling for dialogical contextualism in management and organization studies

Hamann

Luiz

Ramaboa

et al. 2020

Organization Theory

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We express our unease with one-sided invitations into the Northern mainstream, as well as with Southern critics’ retreat into indigenous enclaves of organizational scholarship. We use this dichotomy to theorize the role of context in organizational theorizing by linking scholarly conversations on context, analogical reasoning, and problematizing assumptions. This creates the opportunity to more carefully consider how not just our theoretical backgrounds but also our contextual life-worlds provide the assumptions and analogies we bring into our theorizing. We use this platform to consider in more detail systematic biases in both the Northern mainstream (erasing and imposing biases) and the Southern critique (scapegoating and valorizing biases). These biases have in common that they essentialize context. To address this risk and to facilitate contextual reflexivity, we propose a form of dialogical scholarly engagement to generate complementary spaces to fruitfully question our contextually embedded assumptions.

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“…failure to sufficiently consider the role of governments in non-US contexts has been made with regard to entrepreneurship (Bruton et al, 2018).…”

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Neither Colony Nor Enclave: Calling for dialogical contextualism in management and organization studies

Hamann

Luiz

Ramaboa

et al. 2020

Organization Theory

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“…Our findings stem from a comparative and cross‐cultural approach that compared local and returnee entrepreneurs while highlighting the cultural influences on the meanings and interpretations of risk and variations in resilience‐building processes for entrepreneurs. The comparative approach adopted by our study may also shed some revealing light on indigenous entrepreneurship research in China (Bruton, Zahra, & Cai, ).…”

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Contextualising Risk and Building Resilience: Returnees Versus Local Entrepreneurs in China

Liu

2019

Applied Psychology

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Risk is a pivotal concept in entrepreneurship research, as entrepreneurs constantly face uncertainty, ambiguity, setbacks, and stressful situations. Attitudes toward risk vary contingent upon individual risk preferences and cultural influences. Building resilience is critical for entrepreneurs to overcome obstacles, deal with risk, and grow their ventures. By juxtaposing effectuation theory and resilience literature, we compare the perceptions of risk held by Chinese returnees and local entrepreneurs and their coping strategies in building resilience. Our research reveals two types of coping approaches, namely effectual coping and causal coping. This study contributes to the comparative international entrepreneurship literature by contextualising the notion of risk held by entrepreneurs influenced by Eastern and Western cultures. Our study further contributes to the nascent literature on resilience in organisations by specifying the entrepreneurial occupational context and exploring the influence of cultures on resilience, and by identifying distinctive resilience‐building coping strategies based upon cultural influences and interpretations of risk. Furthermore, we suggest that resilience can constitute one micro‐foundation of effectuation theory in the context of entrepreneurship dealing with risk.

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“…Scholars have pointed to the need to deepen the understanding of contextual factors to extend existing theories of entrepreneurship and to reveal alternative explanations (e.g., Autio, Kenney, Mustar, Siegel, & Wright, 2014; see also the special issue of Small Business Economies on contextualization in entrepreneurship research in 2019). For example , Bruton et al (2018) have recently called for theories that can better reflect 'indigenous' entrepreneurial activities in various contexts, whereas Welter et al (2019, p. 324) have urged researchers to move away from the dominant "Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship".…”

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Entrepreneurial Workaround Practices in Severe Institutional Voids: Evidence From Kenya

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Cannatelli

Giudici

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Entrepreneurs in developing economies try to cope with weak or absent formal institutions—often referred to as “institutional voids”—by relying extensively on intermediary organizations such as business incubators and development organizations or informal institutions such as political, kinship, or family relationships. However, in many African countries, intermediary support is limited and informal institutions are also unreliable, adding risks and costs to doing business and increasing the severity of institutional voids in the surrounding ecosystem. We investigate the practices followed by 47 commercial entrepreneurs in Kenya to “work around” these severe institutional voids to achieve their goals of business creation and growth. We find that severe institutional voids stimulate the hybridization of goals to include social value creation, create a need for a more strategic orchestration of business relationships, and motivate entrepreneurs to proactively cross-brace the institutional infrastructure around them. We contribute by unveiling the important role of entrepreneurs as microinstitutional agents in developing economies and by detailing how commercial and social goals become intertwined in the context of African entrepreneurship.

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Examining Entrepreneurship Through Indigenous Lenses

Cited by 92 publications

References 51 publications

Neither Colony Nor Enclave: Calling for dialogical contextualism in management and organization studies

Neither Colony Nor Enclave: Calling for dialogical contextualism in management and organization studies

Contextualising Risk and Building Resilience: Returnees Versus Local Entrepreneurs in China

Entrepreneurial Workaround Practices in Severe Institutional Voids: Evidence From Kenya

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