Exploring the Gaps of Metacompetencies Between Entrepreneurs and Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 155-183
Author(s):  
Sirje Ustav
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Theoretical Construct ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behaviour ◽  
Student Reflections ◽  
Depth Interviews

The concept of metacompetencies has not much attracted entrepreneurship research though indicated having a fundamental role in successful entrepreneurial activity. The few studies have so far based on student samples only, so there is no empirical data demonstrating how this theoretical construct is practically used in entrepreneurship. Moreover, the question being in the focus of this paper, is how metacompetencies differ when comparing groups of entrepreneurs and students. This study aims to look into these gaps.Assessing metacompetencies empirically by employing the phenomenological mode of enquiry we can explore the phenomena of metacompetencies in an entrepreneurial setting by studying thirty in-depth interviews with active entrepreneurs. It appears that metacompetencies are in frequent practical use and, more specifically this paper establishes how metacognition, meta-affection, and metaconation interact within the environment of entrepreneurship. Confronted with similar results from student reflections, the comparison reveals important discrepancies in terms of procedural knowledge and an awareness of motivation and temperament for educators to address in order to foster entrepreneurial behaviour.

scholarly journals Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Marlow ◽  
Angela Martinez Dy
Keyword(s):  
Review Article ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behaviour ◽  
The Impact

This article develops a critique of contemporary approaches to analysing the impact of gender upon entrepreneurial propensity and activity. Since the 1990s, increasing attention has been afforded to the influence of gender on women’s entrepreneurial behaviour; such analyses have highlighted an embedded masculinity within the entrepreneurial discourse which privileges men as normative entrepreneurial actors. While invaluable in revealing a prevailing masculine bias within entrepreneurship, this critique is bounded by positioning women as a proxy for the gendered subject. This is a potentially limiting analysis that does not fully recognise gender as a human property with myriad articulations enacted throughout entrepreneurial activity. To progress debate, we engage more deeply with the notion of gender as a multiplicity, exploring the implications of such for future studies of entrepreneurial activity.

Flexible Selves in Flexible Times? Yoga and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Istanbul

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852199893
Author(s):  
T Deniz Erkmen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Yoga Practitioners

This article adds to contemporary analyses of neoliberal subjectivities by focusing on middle-class yoga practitioners in Istanbul, Turkey. Drawing on in-depth interviews, it questions the dominant interpretation of yoga as a form of neoliberal governance and suggests that within the nexus of neoliberal globalisation, autocratisation and precarisation, practices that are often labeled ‘lifestyle consumption’ might provide individuals with the discursive tools to question entrepreneurial norms. Expanding the geographical scope of existing research as well as providing a theoretically informed analysis of empirical data, the article makes an original contribution to understandings of neoliberal subjectivities by bridging work on neoliberal subjectivities and lifestyle politics.

scholarly journals Dynamic Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Micro-Foundations of Regional Entrepreneurship

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip T. Roundy ◽  
Dutch Fayard
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Interconnected System ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Micro Foundations

In pursuit of the beneficial outcomes of entrepreneurship, governments and regional development organisations enact policies to stimulate entrepreneurial activity. A growing focus of policymakers in emerging and developed economies is the promotion of entrepreneurial ecosystems: the interconnected system of forces that generate and sustain regional entrepreneurship. Despite intense interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems, the topic is under-theorised. Studies draw attention to the positive effects of entrepreneurial ecosystems on the creation and functioning of early-stage ventures; however, the specific mechanisms through which ecosystems influence entrepreneurs are not clear. To address this issue, we build on dynamic capabilities theory to create a theoretical framework that identifies a set of forces through which ecosystems influence entrepreneurship. We propose that in vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems entrepreneurs are more able to sense, seize and reconfigure resources and opportunities. Our theory contributes to entrepreneurship research, has implications for policymakers and practitioners, and suggests directions for future studies.

scholarly journals Research scholars: temp workers or lifetime students? The struggle and organization of subjectivities that are ‘in between’

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Davide Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Union Activity ◽  
Academic Workforce ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This article addresses the process of political organization and unionizing among university researchers in Italy which are formally considered to be ‘in training’. This condition puts them in a sort of liminal space, between being recognized as fully employed professionals and being instead considered lifetime students. Their effort to organize politically can be seen as one of many ways through which students are fighting against the establishment of the neoliberal university model. The analysis is focused on the Italian movement called CRNS - Coordinamento dei Ricercatori non Strutturati (Non-structured Research Fellows Coordination), which formed to address this defining issue. The CRNS experiment aimed at achieving a sense of unity among the fragmented academic workforce and it can be considered a prototype of a new, grassroots form of union activity and organizing. The empirical data used in the analysis consists of ten in-depth interviews with university researchers, all Italian citizens, equally divided between men and women, who have all had to move around, as a function of their career and who have all been involved, to different degrees, in political and union organizing initiatives, regarding their conditions of ‘perpetual students’ rather than ‘not quite employed’.

scholarly journals Etnografia z sercem na dłoni. Antropologia wiedzy o relacjach Romów z nie-Romami

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Maciej Witkowski
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Depth Interviews

The author reflects on the conditions connected with obtaining data through in-depth interviews. He argues that in studies on the relations of the Romani with non-Romani peoples the issue is particularly sensitive yet seldom considered. In consideration of the social and cultural distance that ordinarily divides the ethnographer and the research subject, and the interpersonal conditions of their encounter, the author calls attention to the deliberate manner in which the researcher’s academic knowledge is engaged in creating empirical ethnographic data. In conclusion, he proposes a research program that would make it possible to define the sense of the “empirical data” category in contemporary anthropology in relation to the majority community and the Romani.

Greek Politicians and the Use of Online Technologies for Citizen Engagement

2015 ◽  
pp. 1255-1273
Author(s):  
Savvas Papagiannidis ◽  
Teta Stamati ◽  
Hartmut Behr
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Online Strategies ◽  
Clear Communication ◽  
Depth Interviews

This chapter examines how politicians utilise Internet technologies to create an online presence, the motivating and hindering factors for doing so, and the perceived significance such a presence can have. The authors present empirical data collected via in-depth interviews with Greek politicians taking part in the general elections of 2012. The findings suggest that although politicians are increasingly interested in engaging with citizens using online technologies, their efforts are not always focused on achieving measurable and tangible results. Consequently, they do not make full use of the potential online technologies offer. Instead, the authors conclude, online strategies need to be organised around predefined objectives and based on clear communication and engagement plans.

Entrepreneurship and Chance

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Alexandra França ◽  
Orlando Lima Rua
Keyword(s):  
Business Environment ◽  
Research Proposal ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Planning Model ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Opportunity ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Opportunity Discovery

The unpredictability of business activities means that entrepreneurs should find a way to adapt and embrace chance. The traditional and predefined process logic offers little support for today's complex and dynamic business environment. One tenet that shaped the direction of entrepreneurship research is the view that the entrepreneurial opportunity discovery and development is linear, systematic, and rational, that is, it is assumed that all factors are measurable and knowable. However, unknowable instances of coincidence, randomness, and chance factors can play a significant role in new venture creation. The authors propose that these factors point to the nonlinear and acausal phenomenon of chance. This research proposal intends to address entrepreneurs' alternative mechanisms, other than the classic formal planning model, to harness opportunities or overcome setbacks arising from chance. To achieve our purpose, the authors examine qualitative data drawn from entrepreneurial activity of Spain and Portugal.

Tourism Company's Values Profiles

2017 ◽  
pp. 155-174
Author(s):  
Veronika I. Kabalina ◽  
Kira V. Reshetnikova ◽  
Marina D. Predvoditeleva
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Business Values ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Tour Operator

This paper presents the results of research into the values which are adhered to a Russian tour operator and the employees' personal business values. The empirical data of this research includes the company's internal documents, four in-depth interviews with senior management employees, and a survey of 98 employees. The value profiles of the organization and its employees were identified, as well as the areas in which they converged and diverged. This research shed some light on those values which are characteristic of a tourism organization, and attempted to fill the gap in the extant knowledge on this topic in the academic literature.

scholarly journals On the relativity of old and new media: A lifeworld perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Menke ◽  
Christian Schwarzenegger
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Media Change ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Accurate Observation

It is an old, yet, accurate observation that the ‘newness’ of media is and most probably will continue to be a catalyst for research in media and communication studies. At the same time, there are numerous academic voices who stress that studying media change demands an awareness of the complexities at play interweaving the new with the old and the changes with the continuities. Over the last decades, compelling theoretical approaches and conceptualizations were introduced that aimed at grasping what defines old and new media under the conditions of complex, disruptive media change. Drawing from this theoretical work, we propose an empirical approach that departs from the perception of media users and how they make sense of media in their everyday affairs. The article argues that an inquiry of media change has to ground the construction of media as old or new in the context of lifeworlds in which media deeply affect users on a daily basis from early on. The concept of media ideology (Gershon, 2010a, 2010b) is used to investigate notions of ‘oldness’ and ‘newness’ people develop when they renegotiate the meaning of media for themselves or collectively with others. Based on empirical data from 35 in-depth interviews, distinct ways how the relativity but also relationality of old and new media are shaped against each other are identified. In the analysis, the article focuses on the aspects of rhetoric, everyday experiences, and emotions as well as on media generations, all of which inform media ideologies and thereby influence how media users define old and new media.

Cultural configurations and entrepreneurial realisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Torres ◽  
Mário Augusto
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Antecedent Conditions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behaviour

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand the connection between culture and entrepreneurship in proposing and testing complex configurations of culturally endorsed implicit leadership theories (CLTs) and cultural practices that lead to entrepreneurial behaviour by studying entrepreneurial intentions (EI) and early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) separately. Design/methodology/approach Using data from Globe Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) and Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies, a sample of 44 countries, and a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, several models for EI and TEA were developed. Findings The main findings provide a way of distinguishing between complex antecedent conditions that are required for each stage of the entrepreneurial realisation. The results empirically show that there is no ideal context – the path to stimulate entrepreneurship that works best for one country does not necessarily works the same for other countries. There are multiple paths to achieve the desired outcome. Research limitations/implications The data from the GLOBE study were not completely up to date, the effect of which was minimised by considering data from GEM that respects temporal ordering. Nevertheless, data from GEM suggest that there is a degree of stability in the data over time. Future research could replicate this study with a larger selection of countries and with new data, collected in a different way. Additionally, the inclusion of CLTs proposed in this study opens new opportunities for future research, by providing a new angle to look at the entrepreneurial realisation process. Practical implications This study advances research into the association of culture and entrepreneurship, and develops testable models using a configurational approach, thus confirming the suitability of asymmetric configuration analysis for entrepreneurial research. The results expand an understanding of the entrepreneurial process by showcasing the different complex antecedent conditions for EI and TEA. Depending on a country’s cultural profile, policy-makers should invest in the dimensions that enable their society to align with the model that best suits their own culture. The obtained models offer a framework for evaluating new interventions that aim to develop entrepreneurial behaviour in a specific country. Originality/value Different configurations showcase that there are alternative paths to achieving high levels of EI and TEA. The differences among the possible configurations for each stage of the entrepreneurial realisation are uncovered. Country profiles are identified, quantified, and then compared providing guidance for policy-makers.

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