Domesticating startup culture in Finland

Koskinen, Henri

doi:10.1080/23254823.2020.1788963

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“…The study by Koskinen (2021) revealed that the domestication of start-up culture is found in a combination of start-up entrepreneurship and culture, suggesting that certain cultures hinder start-up entrepreneurship. Pulat (2020) suggested that leadership should incorporate appropriate human-centered cultural midst by reflecting on six foundation human drives: ownership, meaning, belonging, collaboration, participation, and rituals.…”

Section: Cultural Value Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

A theoretical route towards conceptualization of start-ups in emerging markets

Karitu¹,

Wangondu²,

Muathe³

2022

IJRBS

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This paper aims to develop a critical approach to the conceptualization of start-ups in emerging markets from a Kenyan perspective. This study used a theoretical route to conceptualize start-ups in emerging markets like Kenya. From the findings, it is important to note that the conceptualization of start-up is based on western concepts and might be flawed and poorly applicable to businesses in Kenya. Hence in the Kenyan context, a start-up should be viewed as an innovative business entity, which is scalable and has survived up to 3-5 years. To support the growth of the start-up ecosystem in Kenya, policymakers should promote start-ups through the formation of relevant legislation and provide incentives that stimulate their survival and growth. The study has brought out some interesting findings which can generate more debate. The study used an exploratory research design which is not conclusive in nature therefore future research should consider using a research design that is conclusive in nature and robust.

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Section: Cultural Value Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

A theoretical route towards conceptualization of start-ups in emerging markets

Karitu¹,

Wangondu²,

Muathe³

2022

IJRBS

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“…Start-ups are perceived as having a culture characterized by competitiveness, self-interest, hard work, creativity, sharing, acceptance of failure, appreciation of risk-taking (Maas and Ester, 2016;Koskinen, 2020); and a willingness to risk losses (Koudstaal et al, 2016). The startup culture is regarded as inherently masculine, with women stereotypically viewed as riskaverse (Brindley, 2005).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship Academia and Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Women founders in a high-tech incubator: negotiating entrepreneurial identity in the Indian socio-cultural context

Gupta¹,

Etzkowitz

2021

IJGE

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PurposeThis study aims to understand the socio-cultural context of Indian women's high-tech entrepreneurial experience. Despite a small proportion of women entrepreneurs, and the traditional gender dynamics among the educated middle-classes that appears to be antithetical to female entrepreneurship; women-led high-tech start-ups are on the rise.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews were conducted with women founders at an academic incubator in an elite Indian Institute of Technology. The study was based on the post-structural feminist approach that women entrepreneurs are embedded in their socio-cultural and institutional context. During data collection, the Coronavirus lockdown provided a natural experiment, highlighting entrepreneurial response to unforeseen obstacles.FindingsIt finds that the context is significant in constructing opportunity, and in navigating challenges of gender and entrepreneurship. Further, in the process of construction of an entrepreneurial identity, women innovators not only reproduce, but also modify their context. Also, the experiences with academic incubator indicate positive results both for gender dynamics and enhancing an emergent entrepreneurial culture.Practical implicationsThe study highlights that women's high-tech entrepreneurship has considerable potential for enhancing women's status in society through the support of academic incubator. This has certain implications for policy.Originality/valueIt provides an insight in to the hitherto neglected issue of women's high-tech entrepreneurship in India, and argues that a study of “social embeddedness” not only highlights constraints for women entrepreneurs unique to that context, but also the potential of women's entrepreneurship in advancing women's agency and gender equality.

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“…These qualities tend to have negative connotations in the Finnish context, which might be the reason why the students voice a preference for traditional SME entrepreneurship, which is more associated with hard work. (Koskinen, 2020. ) This is acknowledged in the discussions: 'startup entrepreneurs work in a sort of bubble, like "we're doing something great here," and outside people are giggling at them.…”

Section: Critical Whisperingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Economic uncertainty and responsibilities related to entrepreneurship are pondered, and thus 'the jump to the unknown scares ' them (Discussant2, 2018). Sceptical reasoning appears as an interesting contrast to the desire to increase innovative and risky growth entrepreneurship among the highly educated population, which is visible in policy agendas (see Koskinen, 2020) and an important justification for the startup course.…”

Section: Critical Whisperingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shaping and negotiating entrepreneurial selves in academic entrepreneurship education

Laalo

Koskinen

Stenholm

et al. 2023

JPHE

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Entrepreneurship education appears to be a way to extend market orientation in academic education into pedagogical arrangements and students’ self-understanding. This we find in a case study of a startup entrepreneurship course designed and promoted by the international Junior Achievement -network and organised co-operatively by four Finnish higher education institutions. We examine how the course practices do not only develop students’ business skills but also aim to shape their entrepreneurial mind-sets and behaviour, simultaneously promoting practical and vocational approach to academic education. We are interested in how students internalise these practices and, specifically, how they challenge and resist the expectations targeted to them. Our analysis of the course materials and students’ reflections represents entrepreneurship education as a governing technology, which draws on market logic in attempting to make students employable, autonomous and proactive entrepreneurial subjects. Students seem to have internalised the favoured subjectivity, but they also subtly break the expectations when they are given a chance. Applying market logic in the pedagogical practices of academic education tends to dismiss and ignore the value of abstract theoretical cultivation and redefines the roles of a teacher and a student.

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Domesticating startup culture in Finland

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

A theoretical route towards conceptualization of start-ups in emerging markets

A theoretical route towards conceptualization of start-ups in emerging markets

Women founders in a high-tech incubator: negotiating entrepreneurial identity in the Indian socio-cultural context

Shaping and negotiating entrepreneurial selves in academic entrepreneurship education

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