Researching Pure Digital Entrepreneurship – A Multimethod Insider Action Research approach

Nzembayie, Kisito Futonge; Buckley, Anthony Paul

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2018.e00103

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“…Positionality could be employed empirically to more closely assess how and why the most valuable entrepreneurial opportunities are available to some actors and not others, and to better understand the new implications for the ‘rules of the game’ (Baumol, 1996) in the digital era (Duffy and Pruchniewska, 2017; Nzembayie et al ., 2019) in which a proliferation of capital‐light, part‐time self‐employment characterises contemporary service‐based economies (Wales and Agyiri, 2016), and the blurring of perceived distinctions between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship (Acs, 2006; Lippmann et al ., 2005) this may present. Through conceptualising opportunity development not as the provenance of atomistic agents, but interlinked with, and embedded within, lived experiences of a complex social world, future studies can explore differently positioned actors' entrepreneurial motivations, processes of opportunity development, and outcomes in light of geohistorical location, social stratification, resource constraint and enablement, and the nature of available or possible opportunities, and, in so doing, resolve some outstanding tensions and theoretical contradictions.…”

Section: Social Positionality's Explanatory Powermentioning

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Not all Entrepreneurship Is Created Equal: Theorising Entrepreneurial Disadvantage through Social Positionality

2020

European Management Review

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The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has historically been viewed as an agential and meritocratic activity, wherein actors can creatively mobilise resources to overcome disadvantaged social positions. However, recent literature highlights entrepreneurship's socially embedded, processual nature, suggesting that enduring positions in social hierarchies may be more relevant to opportunity pursuit than previously envisioned. This conceptual paper proposes and builds upon the notions of intersectionality and positionality to more fully theorise disadvantage in entrepreneurial activity. Underpinned by philosophical realism, it makes an ontological argument about the nature of entrepreneurial advantage and disadvantage, offering a reconceptualisation of its relationship to agency and resources. The paper thus illuminates significant structural aspects of entrepreneurship that are currently undertheorised, and without which the picture of entrepreneurial disadvantage is incomplete.

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Section: Social Positionality's Explanatory Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Not all Entrepreneurship Is Created Equal: Theorising Entrepreneurial Disadvantage through Social Positionality

2020

European Management Review

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“…A prominent theme in the literature citing Marshall's work has been its legitimation for research practices that invite attention to how we experience ourselves in inquiry (Lord and Preston 2009; Allbon 2012). Her work is often set within broader notions of reflective practice, for example appearing alongside works from Schon and Torbert (Coghlan 2003;Nzembayie et al 2019). The focus on integrated practice development rather than knowledge output alone brings natural companionship with the frameworks of action science.…”

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Living Life as Inquiry – a Systemic Practice for Change Agents

Gearty

Marshall

2020

Syst Pract Action Res

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The practical orientation of action research, together with its embedded and participative principles, means it is particularly suited to complex, interconnected questions and ‘real life’ systemic issues. In the realm of first-person action research, Judi Marshall’s (1999) influential article “Living Life as Inquiry” described how such research can extend to one’s whole life whereby professional and personal questions can be set within politically relevant frames. Over the past two decades, many students and researchers have worked with and drawn much imaginative inspiration from the idea of living life as inquiry (LLI). However little has been written to describe how the practice develops and the many forms it can take. This article draws on our extensive experience as inquirers ourselves and as educators, working with students and change agents motivated to address social and environmental concerns. Twenty years after the original article we have conducted a reflective review that included surveying the literature, and working in depth with a range of stories and current practices. From this comes a textured expansion of the language and practice of living life as inquiry as it is approached from the specificity of people’s lives. Through narrative and visual textures, we present views into the many different ways LLI is developed through day-to-day practices of experimentation, data gathering, artistic exploration, intervention and reflection. We explore what this means for quality in the enactment of inquiry. The article draws particular attention to the embodied nature of inquiry and seeks to capture its fleeting, processual quality.

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“…However, being a family of practices which share core similarities but retain their distinctive emphasis, it remains unclear which modalities of AR may be adopted in studying the entrepreneurial process. Since understanding the causal mechanisms driving entrepreneurial processes calls for the merging of researcher and entrepreneur identities (Johannisson, 2018), Insider action research appears primed for the task (Coghlan, 2019) – especially when it subsumes the modalities of reflective practice (Schon, 1984), cooperative inquiry (Heron and Reason, 2006) and design science in a multimethod framework (Nzembayie et al ., 2019). By ‘insider‐acting’ the entrepreneurship phenomenon, researchers and students assume entrepreneur identities in a dual role.…”

Section: Insider Action Research and Phenomenon Fitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Its research outcomes are made manifest in design constructs, models and frameworks (March and Smith, 1995). Its incorporation in an IAR methodology framework (Coghlan, 2019) perhaps offers the most potential for studying the entrepreneurial process in a practice‐based approach (Nzembayie et al ., 2019). As noted, the entrepreneurship phenomenon involves acting to translate new venture ideas into new market offerings (Davidsson, 2015).…”

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“…Digital entrepreneurship exists as two main typologies – PDE and HDE. PDE is entrepreneurship in which digital artifacts and digital platforms constitute the new venture ideas and market offerings (von Briel et al ., 2018; Nzembayie et al ., 2019). The technological basis of this form of entrepreneurship has several implications for the entrepreneurial process.…”

Section: Insider‐acting Digital Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Entrepreneurial Process Studies Using Insider Action Research: Opportunities & Challenges for Entrepreneurship Scholarship

Nzembayie

Buckley

2020

European Management Review

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This paper examines the opportunities and challenges of adopting insider action research (IAR) in entrepreneurial process studies. It employs a critical reflexive and narrative approach in examining our own lived experience in a real-time digital entrepreneurial journey spanning three years while triangulating it with experiential knowledge in another role as dissertation supervisors. Our live case illustrates that IAR, when it combines reflective practice, cooperative inquiry and design science, represents a suitable but under-exploited methodology for entrepreneurship scholarship. We build on this knowledge to offer a model for incorporating this methodology in entrepreneurship research and education. Consequently, we contribute towards responding to the need for phenomenon-methodology fit in the discipline. Ultimately, the paper's value lies in its effort towards resolving the seemingly perennial question regarding the legitimacy of entrepreneurship as a distinctive domain of scholarship.

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Researching Pure Digital Entrepreneurship – A Multimethod Insider Action Research approach

Cited by 29 publications

References 32 publications

Not all Entrepreneurship Is Created Equal: Theorising Entrepreneurial Disadvantage through Social Positionality

Not all Entrepreneurship Is Created Equal: Theorising Entrepreneurial Disadvantage through Social Positionality

Living Life as Inquiry – a Systemic Practice for Change Agents

Entrepreneurial Process Studies Using Insider Action Research: Opportunities & Challenges for Entrepreneurship Scholarship

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