How does entrepreneurial failure change an entrepreneur's digital identity? Evidence from Twitter data

Fisch, Christian; Block, Joern

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106015

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“…This study is based on a large set of submissions and comments from an online community of entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In line with other studies that investigate big datasets in the entrepreneurship literature (e.g., Bloh et al, 2020 ; Fisch & Block, 2021 ; Obschonka & Fisch, 2018 ; Obschonka et al, 2017 , 2020 ; Prüfer & Prüfer, 2020 ), we used a stepwise process to access information within the vast amount of posts, which helps us answer our research question. More precisely, we investigate community conversations in four steps (Table 1 ) .…”

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“…For example, the community will react differently depending on whether entrepreneurs desire to use the community to test out a new opportunity (Autio et al, 2013 ), or whether they are seeking to deal with failure (c.f. Fisch & Block, 2021 ). This phenomenon where a community may shift its characteristics and offer different responses depending on the inquiry is known to information systems research as affordances (Leonardi, 2011 ; Leonardi & Treem, 2012 ), a theoretical perspective that enables us to understand online interactions.…”

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“…For example, it is not possible to “befriend” someone like on Facebook. However, this also means that the growing body of research in entrepreneurship, investigating the role of social media for entrepreneurs (e.g., Fisch & Block, 2021 ; Obschonka et al, 2017 ), can only give us a vague idea of how entrepreneurs interact with online communities.…”

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COVID-19 has caused significant and unforeseen problems for entrepreneurs. While entrepreneurs would normally seek social support to help deal with these issues, due to social distancing, physical networks are often not available. Consequently, entrepreneurs must turn to alternative support sources, such as online communities, raising the question of how support is created in such spaces. Drawing on an affordance perspective, we investigate how entrepreneurs interact with online communities and base our qualitative analysis on conversation data (76,365 posts) from an online community of entrepreneurs on Reddit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings draw out four affordances that online communities offer to entrepreneurs (resolving problems, reframing problems, reflecting on situations, refocusing thinking and efforts), resulting in a framework of entrepreneurial support creation in online communities. Thus, our study contributes to debates around (1) entrepreneurs’ support during COVID-19 and (2) digital affordances in the entrepreneurship context.

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“…Entrepreneurship studies have long shown that innovative data sets such as Twitter data may enable researchers to circumvent low response rates and method biases (e.g., Fisch and Block 2020). In fact, a very current study (not included in the review) does show that Twitter data in sport contexts can be obtained to measures narcissism (Grijalva et al 2019).…”

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Overconfidence and narcissism among the upper echelons: a systematic literature review

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2020

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Research has been trying to analyze cognitive decision making processes of topexecutive for decades. In particular, economic and organizational research on overconfidence (e.g., the notion that one is better than the average) and narcissism (e.g., exaggerated feeling of self-importance and the need for admiration) among the upper echelons has shown to influence firm strategies and firm level outcomes in similar ways. Yet these approaches appear in distinct research disciplines. Although both constructs are theoretically and empirically linked, and have shown to affect key organizational outcomes, surprisingly little clear empirical consensus exist how these constructs-individually and mutually-affect firm level outcomes. I try explain this puzzle by providing an overview of the leading approaches of executive overconfidence and executive narcissism research. To disentangle both constructs conceptionally and empirically, I review a large sample of articles that are nested in leading economic and business journals. Thus, I identify key operationalization issue and discuss how divergent literature streams in Economics and Organizational Behavior may benefit from each other. The review suggest that paying more attention-theoretically and empirically-to the interaction of overconfidence and narcissism may help to augment knowledge accumulation in the field. Furthermore, greater validation concerns of unobtrusive measures and its endogenous nature may help to rule out alternative explanations. Generally speaking, the results suggest that top-executive overconfidence and narcissism are not mere interesting psychological biases but affect firm-level outcomes in important ways.

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“…These findings further support the argument that entrepreneurship is associated with more positive emotional expressions on social media platforms, and demonstrate that, controlling for the characteristics of the entrepreneur, entrepreneurial actions are associated with increased positivity. Finally, our study contributes to recent research that has examined the digital footprints of entrepreneurs using computerized text analyses [47][48][49].…”

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Exploring the sentiment of entrepreneurs on Twitter

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Sentiment analysis is an evolving field of study that employs artificial intelligence techniques to identify the emotions and opinions expressed in a given text. Applying sentiment analysis to study the billions of messages that circulate in popular online social media platforms has raised numerous opportunities for exploring the emotional expressions of their users. In this paper we combine sentiment analysis with natural language processing and topic analysis techniques and conduct two different studies to examine whether engagement in entrepreneurship is associated with more positive emotions expressed on Twitter. In study 1, we investigate three samples with 6.717.308, 13.253.244, and 62.067.509 tweets respectively. We find that entrepreneurs express more positive emotions than non-entrepreneurs for most topics. We also find that social entrepreneurs express more positive emotions, and that serial entrepreneurs express less positive emotions than other entrepreneurs. In study 2, we use 21.491.962 tweets to explore 37.225 job-status changes by individuals who entered or quit entrepreneurship. We find that a job change to entrepreneurship is associated with a shift in the expression of emotions to more positive ones.

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How does entrepreneurial failure change an entrepreneur's digital identity? Evidence from Twitter data

Cited by 59 publications

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Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Overconfidence and narcissism among the upper echelons: a systematic literature review

Exploring the sentiment of entrepreneurs on Twitter

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