Pop-Up to Professional: Emerging Entrepreneurial Identity and Evolving Vocabularies of Motive

Demetry, Daphne

doi:10.5465/amd.2015.0152

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“…While individuals who hold a second job in the same field as their primary job do not tend to change careers (Panos, Pouliakas, & Zangelidis, 2014), others may use their second job as a stepping-stone to a new career (Panos et al, 2009), such as self-employment (e.g., hybrid entrepreneurs; Thorgren et al, 2016). Demetry’s (2017) study on pop-up restaurants illustrates such a transition wherein emerging chefs “practiced” creating mealtime experiences on a part-time basis—in addition to having “day jobs”—to grow their skills. While hybrid entrepreneurs are typically more risk averse than those who make a clean cut from waged labor to self-employment (Folta, Delmar, & Wennberg, 2010), at least one study showed that transitioning via hybrid entrepreneurship had a higher rate of new-venture survival than through traditional entrepreneurship (Raffiee & Feng, 2014).…”

Section: A Systematic Review Of the Mjh Literaturementioning

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Multiple Jobholding: An Integrative Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Campion

Caza

Moss

2019

Journal of Management

124

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Despite sizable but varying estimates of multiple jobholding (MJH) and decades of research across disciplines (e.g., management, economics, sociology, health and medicine), our understanding of MJH is rather limited. The purpose of this review is to provide a coherent synthesis of the literature on MJH, or working more than one job. Beginning with a discussion of the motivations and demographic predictors that forecast MJH, we note a distinct divide between the research that predicts MJH and the research that examines outcomes, with few studies exploring how motivations might relate to MJH experiences and outcomes. Another significant observation in this review is the inconsistency of findings across and within disciplines regarding whether MJH is depleting or enriching. Using this framework to organize our review, we attempt to reconcile the generally mixed results by presenting research on mechanisms and boundary conditions of MJH to explain how and when multiple jobholders (MJHers) are depleted or enriched. By integrating findings from the literature, we are able to articulate more clearly the paths of depletion and enrichment and discuss how push versus pull-based motivations to hold multiple jobs likely predict these pathways. Finally, we provide a strategic agenda highlighting areas where additional research is urgently needed to equip scholars with practical knowledge on how to help MJHers manage their multiple work roles and how to help organizations manage MJHers.

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Section: A Systematic Review Of the Mjh Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Multiple Jobholding: An Integrative Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Campion

Caza

Moss

2019

Journal of Management

124

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“…But since the purveyors do not have sophisticated foodies in mind in developing their menus, they are perceived as authentic (cf. Demetry forthcoming).…”

Section: Why and When High-status Actors Demand Authentic Lowbrow Goodsmentioning

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Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture: Overcoming High-Status Denigration with Outsider Art

Hahl

Zuckerman²,

Kim³

2017

Am Sociol Rev

107

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We develop and test the idea that public appreciation for authentic lowbrow culture affords an effective way for certain elites to address feelings of authenticity-insecurity arising from “high status denigration” (Hahl and Zuckerman 2014). This argument, which builds on recent sociological research on the “search for authenticity” (e.g., Grazian 2005) and on Bourdieu’s (1993) notion of artistic “disinterestedness,” is validated through experiments with U.S. subjects in the context of “outsider” art (Fine 2004). The first study demonstrates that preference for lowbrow culture perceived to be authentic is higher when individuals feel insecure in their authenticity because they attained status in a context where extrinsic incentives are salient. The second study demonstrates that audiences perceive the members of erstwhile denigrated high-status categories to be more authentic if they consume lowbrow culture, but only if the cultural producer is perceived as authentic. We conclude by noting how this “authenticity-by-appreciation” effect might be complementary to distinction-seeking as a motivation for elite cultural omnivorousness, and we draw broader implications for when and why particular forms of culture are in demand.

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“…Research in creative industries shows that entrepreneurship is used by many creatives to professionalize a labor of love (e.g., Eikhof & Haunschild, 2006;Lingo & Tepper, 2013). For example, in her study, Demetry (2017) shows how chefs engage in starting pop-up restaurants and in this way professionalize their hobby. Our study suggests that engaging in entrepreneurship and bonding with like-minded people are important ways to enable calling enactment in the context of less-established career structures and limited resources.…”

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Enacting creative calling when established career structures are not in place: The case of the Dutch video game industry

Lysova

Khapova

2019

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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Despite the long tradition of studies on calling conducted in established professional and occupational groups, little is known about what it means to enact one's calling in the context of lessestablished professions, absent career structures and temporary organizational settings. However, with the changing nature of work, this knowledge is highly needed to support independent workers. This paper presents a study of twenty-four founders of (video)game development companies in the Dutch video game industry who enact their calling in the context of poorly established career structures and scarce resources. Our findings reveal that the way the game company founders describe the meanings they attach to their work and to video game development suggests the presence of a creative calling, which focuses on the creative process rather than on a specific occupation or profession. The founders engage in emergent entrepreneurship and bond with like-minded people to create space that allows them to enact their creative calling in the video game industry. In doing so, they anchor their creative calling enactment in either an idealized or a crafted work identity. In turn, the choice of work identity anchor shapes how successful they are in sustaining this creative calling enactment in the video game industry. Our findings shed new light on the concept of calling and its enactment in the context of less-established career structures and scarce resources; they further provide practical implications for individuals who pursue their calling in contemporary work contexts and for career counselors.

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Pop-Up to Professional: Emerging Entrepreneurial Identity and Evolving Vocabularies of Motive

Cited by 52 publications

References 82 publications

Multiple Jobholding: An Integrative Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Multiple Jobholding: An Integrative Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture: Overcoming High-Status Denigration with Outsider Art

Enacting creative calling when established career structures are not in place: The case of the Dutch video game industry

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