Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas

Knox, Stephen; Casulli, Lucrezia; Maclaren, Andrew

doi:10.1080/08985626.2021.1890231

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“…Each community has their own unique societal expectations and agendas that demand the entrepreneur, and they build diverse ideas of entrepreneurship, which individuals adapt to when engaging in various contexts (Essers & Benschop, 2007). Some researchers revealed that people create different identities through networking and by considering other discourses in particular spaces (Knox et al, 2021, McAdams, 2018). Rae (2005) have discovered that engagement with peers allows students to learn activities connected to entrepreneurial identity in an entrepreneurial education setting.…”

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The Experience of Applying a Narrative Research Approach With Female Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka

Kankanamge

2022

SAGE Open

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The area of female entrepreneurship has recently received considerable attention, which is dominated by quantitative studies. However, the narrative methodology approach offers the opportunity to gain in-depth, rich information beyond the boundaries of a question-response type of interview. Therefore, the article puts forward researching female entrepreneurship through the application of the narrative design. Fourteen women were purposively approached and interviewed. Findings revealed that researcher characteristics including understanding and respecting others, insider, outsider perspectives, and multiple identities as critical attributes of success in conducting narrative interviews. In addition, interview skills such as building trust and language were crucial to sustaining such characteristics when bringing together the stories of the respondent. Therefore, narrative design can be identified as an essential method that produces new knowledge, permitting, in this case, to better understand the complexity of women’s experiences.

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“…Simply, identity is personalized but is also constructed through society. To understand identity, one must know how it is shaped and sustained through social relationships (Knox et al, 2021). Furthermore, an individual’s identity isn’t constant and evolves over time (McAdams, 2018).…”

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The Experience of Applying a Narrative Research Approach With Female Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka

Kankanamge

2022

SAGE Open

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“…En cuanto a las formas de inserción y los recorridos laborales de las personas emprendedoras, los estudios sobre la disposición a involucrarse en este tipo de proyectos suelen enfocarse en aspectos individuales como la identidad, la personalidad y el carácter del emprendedor (Martínez, 2010;Sastre, 2013;Schoof, 2006). Sin embargo, Knox, Casulli & MacLaren (2021) dan cuenta que, en los emprendimientos creativos, la identidad del emprendedor se construye en función de la cercanía o intimidad con los demás, la experiencia compartida y la posibilidad de co-crear un compromiso mutuo. No así en los emprendimientos comerciales en donde en el trabajo identitario se realiza en base a la jerarquía y el rol que se ocupa en la organización.…”

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“…Como un continuo al proceso de desidentificación ejemplificado en los extractos anteriores, la bifurcación genera espacios para cambiar la propia identidad profesional. El trabajo identitario en este caso es realizado en base a criterios relacionales y vínculos de intimidad con otros (Knox et al, 2021).…”

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Bifurcaciones biográficas en los escenarios laborales del Chile contemporáneo: una comparación entre trabajadores del retail y emprendedores sociales

Lenta¹,

Prieto²

2021

CUHSO

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El presente artículo analiza y compara las bifurcaciones de trabajadores asalariados e independientes vinculados a escenarios laborales con amplios contrastes entre ellos, considerados como formas de empleo prototípicas del Chile contemporáneo. Por un lado, el de una tradicional tienda por departamento del país, que en las últimas décadas experimentó un proceso de reestructuración que la transformó en una de las empresas más importantes del retail chileno. Por otro lado, el de los emprendimientos de innovación social, una forma de autoempresa que añade al espíritu emprendedor la preocupación por problemáticas sociales. A través de las herramientas teóricas de la sociología del curso de vida y de las bifurcaciones biográficas, se analizaron 32 entrevistas en profundidad con el fin de comprender la experiencia de los trabajadores al momento de entrar en una categoría laboral improbable o inesperada en relación a la situación laboral anterior. Los resultados muestran que las experiencias de bifurcación en cada escenario varían significativamente en función del vínculo al trabajo y el vínculo al empleo. Mientras que en el retail, el ingreso está marcado por una decisión adaptada a la escasez de alternativas disponibles que con el tiempo da lugar a una valorización del empleo que con- 251 Martinic y Tabilo Bifurcaciones biográficas en los escenarios laborales del Chile contemporáneo: una comparación entre trabajadores del retail y emprendedores sociales trasta con una insatisfacción con el trabajo, en el emprendimiento se evidencia un esfuerzo por reorientar la propia experiencia profesional en busca de una mayor realización en el trabajo, sacrificando la estabilidad del empleo. En las conclusiones, se interpretan las diferencias y similitudes de las bifurcaciones biográficas a la luz de las transformaciones del Chile actual.

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“…, 2022; Lounsbury and Glynn, 2001), and have undergone various adaptations (Fisher et al. , 2016; Knox et al. , 2021).…”

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Making sense of identity transitioning within the new venture creation process

Hoyte,

Noke

2023

IJEBR

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PurposeThis study aims to explore how aspiring entrepreneurs navigate between their own individual self-concept and the organisational identity of the new venture during the process of new venture creation.Design/methodology/approachThe study draws on three cases of aspiring entrepreneurs within a UK-based university incubator in the process of “becoming” entrepreneurs. Semi-structured interviews and secondary data were collected and analysed using a flexible pattern matching approach.FindingsThe data illustrated parallel identity and sensemaking processes occurring as the aspiring entrepreneurs navigated towards new venture formation. For the organisational identity process, three key stages were found to occur: referent identity labelling, projection and identity reification. Concurrently the sensemaking process made up of creation, interpretation and enactment were seen to enable identity transitioning mechanisms: cue identification, liminal sensegiving and recognition of formal venture boundaries, which led to the organisational identity being formed.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is exploratory in nature thus future research is required to clarify the relationship between identity work practices and the process of creating a new venture (Oliver and Vough, 2020). The paper is limited to successful instances of new venture formation, and though this helped to extricate the identity transitioning stages and mechanisms that have thus far remained implicit within the process of new venture creation, it could be extended to examine entrepreneurs who fail to set up new ventures. This limitation opens avenues for further research on identity formation in failed ventures (Snihur and Clarysse, 2022) and on how entrepreneurs negotiate contested identities (Varlander et al., 2020). Furthermore, entrepreneurs take different pathways to new venture formation (Shepherd et al., 2021) and while this study follows the journey of aspiring entrepreneurs who differed in terms of sector, education and prior entrepreneurial experience (Shane, 2003), future researchers could undertake a more in-depth ethnographic study including the effects of incubator setting and how these can be best supported, as this was outside the original remit of this study. Given the importance of the university incubator (Bergman and McMullen, 2022), its role in the construction of new venture identity is an interesting area for future research.Practical implicationsThis study provides a practical contribution into entrepreneurship curricula and incubator training, emphasising the importance of understanding the relevance of the entrepreneur's self-concept in making sense of future venture identities. Through the findings of this study, the importance of cue identification and how aspiring entrepreneurs rely on these to carve out the identity of their budding venture is demonstrated. Incubator spaces may have a role to play in supporting aspiring entrepreneurs to reflect on and interpret feedback (liminal sensegiving) during the venture creation process. Furthermore, both educators and incubator managers need to be aware of the state of in-between-ness aspiring entrepreneurs will face as they carve out the identity of the budding venture. This study enables educators to advise aspiring entrepreneurs that there will come a point on the entrepreneurial journey when they need to emphasise boundary setting between self and organisation to enable organisational identity to be fostered and venture formation realised. This study advises incubator managers to consider whether support around business registrations and creation of business accounts should be provided earlier in the incubation programme to emphasise boundary setting between self and organisation. There is a fruitful avenue for future research to extend the work in this paper to fully understand how this might be taught and practiced in the classrooms.Originality/valueBy extricating the stages of organisational identity formation, often hidden within the new venture creation process, this study has framed new venture creation as a liminal experience and a visible site of identity work. This study presents a process model of the key identity transitioning stages and mechanisms in new ventures, by illustrating how aspiring entrepreneurs' sensemaking influences identity transitions during the process of venture creation.

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Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas

Cited by 13 publications

References 110 publications

The Experience of Applying a Narrative Research Approach With Female Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka

The Experience of Applying a Narrative Research Approach With Female Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka

Bifurcaciones biográficas en los escenarios laborales del Chile contemporáneo: una comparación entre trabajadores del retail y emprendedores sociales

Making sense of identity transitioning within the new venture creation process

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