Entrepreneurs' personality traits and social enterprise: A legitimation perspective

Y Xiao, Z Liu, D Ahlstrom, Y Bai - Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 2022 - degruyter.com
Prosocial personality traits are thought to be essential characteristics of social
entrepreneurs. However, extant research has typically focused on how personality traits …

When the beacon goes dark: Legitimacy repair work by subsequent actors in an emerging market category

BR Smith, BJ Bergman Jr, GE Kreiner - Journal of Business Venturing, 2021 - Elsevier
Extant research explains how entrepreneurial ventures can serve as a beacon in emerging
market categories, blazing a trail for other ventures and contributing to their successful …

Legitimacy spillovers and hybrid rhetoric in crowdfunded microloans

J Bort, TW Moss, M Renko - International Small Business …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) operate in diverse institutional contexts and serve as the
backbone for microenterprises typically excluded from traditional financial markets. At the …

Navigating Place: Extending Perspectives on Place in Organization Studies

MT Dacin, T Zilber, M Cartel, E Kibler - Organization Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We draw upon the metaphor of navigation to rethink how we think about place. We highlight
three extensions that dominate current place-sensitive organizational research. We draw …

Getting the story right: How second-hand stores use storytelling to gain legitimacy with multiple audiences

D Schadenberg, E Folmer - Social enterprise journal, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to analyse how sustainable second-hand stores (SSHSs) use
storytelling as a legitimization strategy. Second-hand stores have traditionally relied on a …

Translating management ideas: Imitation modes and translation outcomes

A Wæraas, JA Nielsen - Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines the translation of Leadership Pipeline in a Danish fire department. On
the basis of a distinction between faithful and unfaithful imitation, we contribute to a better …

Valuation entrepreneurship through product‐design and blame‐avoidance strategies: How Tesla managed to change the public perception of sustainable innovations

M Palmié, L Miehé, J Mair… - Journal of Product …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Developing innovative, eco‐friendlier products that gain traction in the mass market remains
a persistent challenge for many firms. To bring consumers to choose “greener” alternatives …

Exploring the institutional pressures that affect international new ventures

J Butkeviciene, J Sekliuckiene - Entrepreneurial Business and …, 2022 - ceeol.com
Objective: This article aims to identify the link between institutional pressures and strategic
responses of international new ventures (INVs). Research Design & Methods: This article …

The evolution of an organizational form from social enterprise to territory enterprise

R Slitine, D Chabaud - Contextual Embeddedness of …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
From the perspective of entrepreneurship and organizations, there is a growing awareness
of the importance of a place-based approach to enterprises (Audretsch, 2015, Baranova …

Emplacing category dynamics: Houselessness and the emergence of transitional micro-housing villages

MH Awad - Strategic Organization, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent studies suggest a critical yet unexplored role for local places such as cities and
communities in category research. In this study, I investigate how places, as the nexus of …