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- Evansluong, Quang, et al.
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From Family Embeddedness to Families Embedding in Migrants' Opportunity Development Processes
- 2021
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In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561. ; 2021:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper examines the roles of family in migrant entrepreneurs’ opportunity development. We employ the opportunity development and family embeddedness for theory building purposes. We conducted a longitudinal inductive case study on four cases of migrant entrepreneurs who have established businesses in Sweden and who have their origins in Lebanon and Syria, Cameroon, and Mexico, documented with 29 interviews and field observations. The paper identifies families embedding occurring by means of three norms of reciprocity and obligations that facilitate the opportunity development process. These norms are fulfilling the expectations of family and the existing family business, regularly interacting with family and the existing family business, and deploying family and business loyalty. These norms are connected to specific sub-processes of opportunity development, namely, the generation of an entrepreneurial idea, shaping an entrepreneurial idea, and defining the (new) family venture offering. By identifying these norms in the opportunity development processes, we theorize that migrant entrepreneurs rely on different family members and the existing family business from the home or host country at different moments of the opportunity development process. Such dynamic creates different norms of reciprocity and obligations for migrant entrepreneurs and their families, which influence the opportunity development.
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- Fünfschilling, Lea, et al.
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Innovation-as-Maintenance – A New Perspective on the Relation Between Innovations and Institutions
- 2020
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In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - New York : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Innovation is currently often seen as a panacea for all of today’s ‘grand challenges’, such as climate change and other persistent problems related to sustainability. Underlying this belief is the assumption that innovation, especially when radical enough, brings relevant change. In this paper, we problematize this assumption by shedding light on the role of innovation for maintenance and stability. Drawing on innovation studies and organizational institutionalism we suggest that the question of change versus maintenance is often a matter of level of analysis, which we go on to show through two empirical case studies of radical innovation. By conceptualizing innovation-as-maintenance, we offer a more nuanced discussion on the role of innovation for societal change and sustainability.
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- Ljungberg, Daniel, 1980
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Lone Inventors and Technological Novelty
- 2019
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In: The Annual Meeting of Academy of Management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- According to extant studies, single and independent inventors have a lower probability of creating breakthrough inventions than teams and organizations. Scholars have, however, in recent years highlighted the need to distinguish between inventions’ novelty and value or technological impact, rather than treat the former as an inherent dimension of the latter. At the same time, there is a long tradition of research on brainstorming and group creativity asserting that collaboration in teams, or similarly in organizations, is associated with less novel outcomes, as opposed to individuals working alone. This paper accordingly explores the relationship between lone inventors and the likelihood of generating technological novelty, as compared to inventors working alone and/or in organizations. This paper provides the first systematic and large-scale study of this topic, by analyzing all U.S. patents applied for between 1986 and 2010. The findings suggest that both independent and single inventors have an advantage when it comes to novelty generation compared to collaboration in teams and/or organizations. The results also indicate that the technological complexity of the invention moderates the studied relationships; Single and independent inventors lose their relatively higher probability of generating technological novelty under higher complexity. The paper contributes to the understanding of the role of lone inventors in innovation, as well as to the antecedents of technological novelty.
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- McKelvey, Maureen, 1965, et al.
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Governance of Regional Innovation Systems: An Evolutionary Conceptual Model of How Firms Engage
- 2015
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In: Academy of Management proceedings, Vancouver, Canada. - 0065-0668. ; 2015:2364, s. 1-25
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper draws upon insights from social science, in order to propose a conceptualization of the governance of a regional innovation system. We are specifically interested in ones initiated through public policy and aiming to stimulate the competitiveness of firms through developing new technological knowledge through collaborative research involving different organizations. We are assuming firms choose whether, when and how to collaborate. This paper proposes a conceptual model, which focuses upon the governance processes at the regional level of this translation of knowledge into innovation and entrepreneurship. The underlying argumentation for the model is built from existing research. We interpret that regional innovation governance depends upon capacity building among three heterogeneous organizations – namely university-government-industry. This represents a case of a polycentric, adaptive, complex and self-organizing system, whereby collective action is supported by norms and institutions in order to develop a region resource pool. Hence, our expectation is that our conceptual model will help explain why different outcomes are possible. The concluding section discusses a future research agenda, by going further to explore how to define and analyze the attributes (mechanisms) enabling governance of a regional innovation system as well as to analyze how public policy and firms engage.
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- Selander, Lisen, 1979, et al.
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AWAKENING TO ALGORITHMIC TRANSGRESSIONS: NON-USER DISCOVERY OF ALGORITHMIC DECISION MAKING
- 2023
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In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - New York : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Algorithmic decision-making has become increasingly prevalent in civil society, often without individuals' awareness that decisions targeting them are delegated to machines. There is a growing need to understand how non-users can begin to suspect that they have been targeted by an algorithm and how they can uncover the hidden nature associated with these systems. In resource-scarce environments, such as the public sector, tracing transgressions to the algorithm is crucial to protect social justice and public trust in institutions. Building on the work of von Krogh (2018), this research examines the emotional, abductive, and collective work associated with algorithmic discovery.
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