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- Doshi, Vijayta, et al.
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'Be Creative!' : Control, Demand, Hypocrisy, and the Management of Creativity
- 2016
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - 0065-0668. ; 2016:1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our paper challenges the “romantic” notion of creativity being good and liberating. Interpreting the empirical evidences from two organizations, based in India and Sweden, respectively, it presents how creativity and creative process are strangling because they are controlled and demanded in organizations. In doing so, we put forth the idea of hypocritical creativity in organizations. Our study highlights the shortcomings of the dominant perspective on creativity and suggests the need for further empirical studies that examine creativity critically in different contexts.
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- Gabrielsson, Jonas, et al.
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What happens after rapid growth? : A study of sustainable high-growth entrepreneurship in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Academy of Management. - : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Entrepreneurial high-growth firms contribute significantly to the economy by scaling up new innovative products, services, and business models as well as creating jobs and fostering economic growth. In this study we examine the incidence of sustainable high growth entrepreneurship in a sample of Swedish firms that have previously been experiencing rapid growth. We acknowledge growth as a multi-dimensional phenomenon by distinguishing between employee growth and sales growth. Overall, the statistical analysis suggests that the different growth trajectories shown by firms can be related to different industry life cycle positions. We also find differences related to the time that has passed since the firm were experiencing rapid growth. In addition, ex-gazelles operating in knowledge intensive sectors or with a higher degree of novelty in their market offer are not more likely to show a subsequent period of growth. Copyright © 2016, Academy of Management
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- Giovacchini, Elia, et al.
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Being Different by Being Yourself: Identity as a Driver of Business Model Innovation
- 2016
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the concept of business models as a source of competitive advantage is noticeably established, we have a paucity in understanding how new business models are created and existing ones changed. In line with some recent studies, we draw attention to endogenous processes of business model innovation (as opposed to the more prominent logic of exogenous motivation). Following the notion that identity is central to an organization’s self-concept and control for appropriate action, we develop a model of how organizational identity affects the motivation (i.e., what triggers the need for innovation) and sourcing (i.e. where do constituents of the new business model come from) of business model innovation. Based on a longitudinal case study of an open source company, we highlight how a distinct choice for a hybrid identity (i.e. multiple, possibly conflicting organizational claims) drove the design and subsequent innovation of three different business models over the course of a 14 year period. This study contributes to the behavioral perspective in strategy by analyzing business models as reflections of an organization's self-concepts.
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- Lychnell, Lasse, et al.
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Straight From the Heart: Using Clinical Inquiry to Research Management Spirituality
- 2016
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - New York, U.S.A. : Academy of Management. - 2151-6561 .- 0065-0668.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the field of management, spirituality and religion has developed greatly during the last decades with an increasingly number of publications in special outlets as well as in highly ranked journals, the bulk of the research on workplace spirituality still relies heavily on the use of quantitative methods. The field is struggling to find methods, which allow an in-depth, first- person understanding of how spirituality relates to work. With this paper, I hope to contribute to the advancement of alternative research methods by proposing a novel and innovative approach to data generation. The suggested approach takes departure in action research and, especially, the notion of clinical inquiry, defined by Edgar Schein as “gathering useful data in settings that are defined by 'clients' who are seeking help”. If the helping process is perceived as successful, the clients will be motivated to reveal more relevant, in-depth data, also when it comes to sensitive issues, which are usually not within research of traditional research methods. In order to illustrate the approach, I draw on a longitudinal study in which the approach was used to help business leaders to integrate insights from spiritual development into their working life. This paper focuses on (1) how a clinical group setting was created, (2) the design of the intervention, (3) a particular technique called “project discussions” was employed to help clients, and (4) how the use of these techniques provided an opportunity for data generation. It is concluded clinical group setting fulfills the function of a holding environment, a safe space in the borderland between spirituality and business, which allowed them to find support in their developments. As a consequence, in-depth data about how these developments came about could be generated. I also argue that the proposed approach may be a viable way for researchers’ with the dual vocation of both facilitating change and creating academic knowledge about that change. This means, in my case, to carry out research with a method that comes straight from the heart.
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- Markowska, Magdalena
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Mumpreneurship : Does motherhood influence women’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy?
- 2016
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The importance of entrepreneurial self-efficacy for entrepreneurial action is well established. Extant research asserts that motivation of female entrepreneurs differs from male entrepreneurs, women are less confident than men, and, they show lower willingness to start a business. Despite these findings, the number of women entrepreneurs in general and mumpreneurs in particular is raising worldwide. To understand the phenomenon better, I explore two research questions: 1) why are women particularly prone to become entrepreneurs after becoming mothers? and 2) can motherhood be considered a springboard for women’s entrepreneurial action? To address these questions, I build on Bandura’s social learning theory and its assertion that mastery experience provides the strongest stimulus for action; and theorize that giving birth and raising a child will have a positive effect on woman’s confidence in general and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in particular. More specifically, by analyzing the type of skills and abilities that are required from parents when raising children, the type of problems encountered, and the type of experiences parents go through in this process, this paper illustrates their similarity to the entrepreneurship context. Consequently, this paper argues that motherhood can act as a springboard for women’s confidence to start and run a new venture. As such, there are two important implications of the argument developed. First, motherhood is a source of rich experiences and skills. Second, women entrepreneurs are not a homogeneous group and for policy makers to provide effective policy tools for the respective subgroups further clustering is required.
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- Schaefer, Stephan, et al.
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The Efficiency Paradox in Organization and Management Theory
- 2016
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - 0065-0668. ; 2015:1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We theoretically discuss a phenomenon that we label “efficiencyism”. Efficiencyism describes a fixation on reified tenets of efficiency without questioning its assumptions and consequences. In organization and management theory efficiency is a foundational concept, which is assumed to be vital for economic success based on the optimization of input-output ratios. Based on the logic of the Jevons Paradox, a concept originating from resource and environmental economics, we challenge the assumptions underlying the notion of efficiency and argue that presumably efficient processes or behaviours can in many cases lead to inefficient outcomes. These “rebound effects” can be observed in a broad array of organizational and managerial contexts. Despite their oftentimes unintended and counterintuitive effects, rebound effects and efficiencyism more generally however persist in theory and practice. To explain why this is the case, we develop three enabling conditions of efficiencyism, namely interpretive flexibility, the maximization imperative, and the micro-macro gap. Our framework has theoretical and empirical implications for seeing efficiency in organization and management theory in a new light.
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- Steigenberger, Norbert, et al.
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Talk is cheap - isn't it? : When and how substantive and rhetorical signals interact to affect stakeholder contributions to crowdfunded projects
- 2016
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561. ; 2016:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While entrepreneurs increasingly rely on crowdfunding to finance product-development projects, we still know little about how entrepreneurs succeed at stimulating resource contributions for these projects. To better understand this relationship, we integrate signaling theory and rhetoric research to derive and test theory on signal portfolios, explaining when and how substantive and rhetorical signals interact to affect resource contributions to crowdfunded projects. We theorize positive as well as negative interaction effects between substantive and rhetorical signals, suggesting that signal complementary and redundancy drive signal-portfolio outcomes. An empirical analysis with longitudinal data covering 2,702 observations of signaling and resource contributions from 197 crowdfunded product-development projects supports our hypotheses. These insights extend signaling theory by offering a theory of signal interdependence, explaining how entrepreneurs’ signal-portfolio performance is positively or negatively affected using specific combinations of signals, and how redundancy of these signals can lead to negative outcomes.
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