It's What You Make of It: Founder Identity and Enacting Strategic Responses to Adversity

Powell, E. Erin; Baker, Ted

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“…While prior work has examined the importance of entrepreneurial self-identity in commercialization activities (Cardon et al 2009, Fauchart and Gruber 2011, Hoang and Gimeno 2010, Jain et al 2009, Powell and Baker 2014, these studies have largely been case-based or retrospective in nature, making it hard to generalize the relative impact of self-identity in the decision to commercialize.…”

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“…These conflicts are important because recent scholarship has focused extensively on the importance of self-identity in the decision to commercialize or become an entrepreneur (Cardon et al 2009, Dobrev and Barnett 2005, Hoang and Gimeno 2010, Powell and Baker 2014. Passion for entrepreneurship is dependent on individuals seeing themselves in an entrepreneurial identity (Cardon et al 2009), and the choice to become an entrepreneur is strongly influenced by an individual's identity (Murnieks et al 2014).…”

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“…For example, social identity theory has primarily focused on identity that derives from collectives such as gender, race, and other social groups (Brewer and Gardner 1996, Randel and Jaussi 2003, Tajfel and Turner 1986, Tajfel 1982. On the other hand, role identity theory developed in a parallel fashion, but focuses primarily on identity that derives from roles such as work and family (Hoang and Gimeno 2010, Powell and Baker 2014, Stryker and Burke 2000. In settings like OSS self-identity combines elements of the social (individuals operate in a community setting) and role (individuals might occupy the role of developer across many communities), so this paper does not attempt a fine-grained differentiation among these concepts, instead focusing on self-identity as an OSS developer compared with that of an entrepreneur.…”

Section: Self-identitymentioning

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“…Self-identity is "the extent to which performing [a] behavior is an important part of one's self concept" (Terry et al 1999: 226), and is shaped by both personal and social factors (Brewer 1991, Stryker and. A recent stream of research has demonstrated the importance of self-identity in decisions associated with both entrepreneurship and commercialization (Fauchart and Gruber 2011, Jain et al 2009, Powell and Baker 2014 and innovation communities (Bagozzi and Dholakia 2006).…”

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“…Hogg et al 1995, Powell and Baker 2014, A. Randel and Jaussi 2003, Stets and Burke 2000, Stryker and Burke 2000, Tajfel 1982. For example, social identity theory has primarily focused on identity that derives from collectives such as gender, race, and other social groups (Brewer and Gardner 1996, Randel and Jaussi 2003, Tajfel and Turner 1986, Tajfel 1982.…”

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Filthy Lucre? Innovative Communities, Identity, and Commercialization

Mollick

2016

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Online communities play an increasingly important role in developing innovation. However, relatively little is known about the ways in which community affiliation influences how innovations and products generated in these communities are commercialized. By examining open source software (OSS) as an example of an innovation community and using both a quasi experiment and a longitudinal survey, I seek to shed light on this issue. In the quasi experiment, using the launch of the Apple App Store, I find a decreased propensity toward commercialization among individuals associated with online community innovation. I then examine the mechanisms for this decreased commercialization with a novel longitudinal survey of OSS community members. Despite the history of OSS as an anticommercial community, I do not find that anticommercial attitudes play a role in commercialization decisions. Instead, differences in entrepreneurial self-identity have large significant effects on the propensity to commercialize. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for the literatures on both entrepreneurial identity and community innovation. Abstract:Online communities play an increasingly important role in developing new innovations. However, relatively little is known about the ways in which community affiliation may change the incentives to commercialize those new innovations. By examining Open Source Software (OSS) as an example of an innovation community, and using both a quasi-experiment and a longitudinal survey, I seek to shed light on this issue. In the quasi-experiment using the launch of the Apple App Store, I find a lower propensity towards commercialization among individuals associated with online community innovation. I then examine the mechanisms for this lower commercialization with a novel longitudinal survey of entrepreneurial activity among OSS community members. Despite the history of OSS as an anticommercial community, I do not find that anti-commercial attitudes play a role in commercialization decisions. Instead, differences in self-identity between community-based innovators and entrepreneurs have large significant effects on the propensity to commercialize innovations. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for both the literatures on entrepreneurial identity and community innovation.

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Section: Self-identitymentioning

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Section: Self-identitymentioning

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Entrepreneurial Identity

Hoang

Gimeno

2015

Wiley Encyclopedia of Management

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Entrepreneurial identity refers to a person's set of meanings, including attitudes and beliefs, attributes, and subjective evaluations of behavior, that define him or herself in an entrepreneurial role. The construct of entrepreneurial identity encompasses how a person defines the entrepreneurial role, and whether he or she identifies with that role. By viewing firm founding as involving a role transition, we explore how entrepreneurial identity can influence successful founding behavior. We posit that when transition to the founder role involves high role novelty and role conflict that can lead to negative feedback, holding a complex and central entrepreneurial identity can facilitate the transition to the founder role by facilitating persistence while emphasizing role experimentation. In contrast, we posit that individuals with high identity centrality and low complexity would probably engage in limited search activities and ultimately become inactive but with an expectation of returning to entrepreneurial activity in the future. Overall, entrepreneurial identity is a dynamic construct whose development is influenced by network contacts that can in turn shed light on why some, and not others, become entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurial motivation: A review of the literature and an agenda for future research

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Klotz

Shepherd³

2019

J Organ Behavior

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Summary Given the substantial impact that new ventures have on the global economy, understanding what motivates entrepreneurs is of both practical and theoretical importance. Although research on the nature, causes, and consequences of entrepreneurial motivation has grown rapidly, it has evolved in distinct theoretical silos that tend to isolate motives based on the phase of business development (e.g., initiation, growth, and exit) rather than acknowledge that individuals often traverse all these phases and experience multiple types of motivation throughout their entrepreneurial journey. To advance the study of motivation in the fields of entrepreneurship and organizational behavior and provide a means through which these advancements can contribute to our understanding of how motivation drives the start‐up, growth, and exiting of businesses, we organize and review the extant literature on entrepreneurial motives based on the phases of the new venture process. In doing so, this article develops a roadmap of the current state of entrepreneurial motivation research and its nomological network and provides suggestions to guide future research in extending our understanding of motivation in the entrepreneurship domain as well as in traditional organizational settings.

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It's What You Make of It: Founder Identity and Enacting Strategic Responses to Adversity

Cited by 297 publications

References 53 publications

Filthy Lucre? Innovative Communities, Identity, and Commercialization

Filthy Lucre? Innovative Communities, Identity, and Commercialization

Entrepreneurial Identity

Entrepreneurial motivation: A review of the literature and an agenda for future research

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