Energizing through Visuals: How Social Entrepreneurs Use Emotion-Symbolic Work for Social Change

Barbera‐Tomás, David; Castelló, Itziar; Bakker, Frank C.; Zietsma, Charlene

doi:10.5465/amj.2017.1488

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“…Another data source for this multimodal approach is social media, which is largely used by institutional scholars (e.g. Barberá-Tomás et al, 2019), such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other platforms in which organizational members interact on organizational-level issues. By using multimodal methods, researchers are able to address the limitations of possible memory loss and the difficulty of tracking emotions’ changes over a longer period of time.…”

Section: Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Capturing emotions in qualitative strategic organization research

Kouamé

Liang

2020

Strategic Organization

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This essay offers insight into methods for qualitatively capturing emotions in strategic organization research, a theme that has attracted increasing interest in the literature, but that raises methodological challenges. We review how researchers have examined emotions in the following three domains of strategic organization research—organizational processes, institutional processes, and strategizing activities. We discuss the ontological assumptions about emotion in each of these areas, and explain how researchers in each area examine particular aspects of the multi-dimensional phenomenon of emotion. We identify specific challenges in capturing emotions in each area, as well as the strategies that researchers use to address them. We outline a repertoire of coding resources and guidelines for the convenient use of future researchers. Finally, we evaluate the strengths and limits of each approach, and identify avenues for future research.

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Section: Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Emotional energy as a transitory and collective phenomenon generated between interacting individuals (Collins, 1993) is a growing interest among institutional scholars (e.g. Barberá-Tomás et al, 2019) and the two other categories—organizational process (e.g. Walsh and Bartunek, 2011) and strategizing (e.g.…”

Section: Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capturing emotions in qualitative strategic organization research

Kouamé

Liang

2020

Strategic Organization

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“…This unexpected outcome-the forgetting of nature-is problematic because it comes in tension with the very objective of carbon accounting which is to account for nature. Recently, organizational scholars have called to reconsider the role of emotions, notably in tackling grand challenges (Barbera-Tomas et al, 2019), as they are "deeply connected to social processes at societal, interorganizational, organizational and interpersonal levels" (Zietsma et al, 2019).…”

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The future of carbon accounting research: “we’ve pissed mother nature off, big time”

Gibassier

Michelon

Cartel

2020

SAMPJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the contributions of the special issue papers while presenting four broad research avenues. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a review of current literature on climate change and carbon accounting. Findings The authors propose four broad avenues for research: climate change as a systemic and social issue, the multi-layered transition apparatus for climate change, climate vulnerability and the future of carbon accounting. Practical implications The authors connect this study with the requested institutional changes for climate breakdown, making the paper relevant for practice and policy. The authors notably point to education and professions as institutions that will request bold and urgent makeovers. Social implications The authors urge academics to reconsider climate change as a social issue, requiring to use new theoretical lenses such as emotions, eco-feminism, material politics and “dispositifs” to tackle this grand challenge. Originality/value This paper switches the authors’ viewpoint on carbon accounting to look at it from a more systemic and social lens.

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“…Yet, in the field of social entrepreneurship the effectiveness of visual methods or graphic representations are rarely studied (with the notable exceptions of Barberá-Tomás et al, 2019;and Sparviero, 2019), and not yet organized into a comprehensive framework. In the domain of entrepreneurship, Muñoz et al (2011) found that entrepreneurship students who improved their opportunity-identification mental frames during the course, had a radical shift in the way that they visually represented the concept of entrepreneurship with sketches.…”

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“…In this phase they can rely on impactful visualizations such as quasi-realistic scenario drawings, infographics or vivid images and visual metaphors. It is challenging to explain innovative ideas to non-technical public; visual symbols used by activists (Barberá-Tomás et al, 2019) and entrepreneurs (Clarke, 2001) are found to mobilize and energize volunteers, clients, and investors.…”

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A Visual Approach for Developing Social Enterprises

Bresciani

Eppler

2020

Multidiscip. bus. rev (Impr.)

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The emerging interest in social entrepreneurship is challenged in practice by the complexity of balancing economic and social aspects, and by the difficulties of getting the public to understand the very concept of social enterprising. How can we support social entrepreneurs in developing and growing their organizations? The cognitive advantages of thinking and working visually are well established in the literature, but not yet applied to guide the entire social enterprising process. Mapping and communicating ideas visually can provide several benefits, not only in the ideation phase, but also for managing, optimizing, and growing a social enterprise. We present a framework with visual formats that can be utilized by social entrepreneurs in each specific phase of the social enterprise development: (1) idea generation, (2) social enterprise model refinement, (3) idea promotion and resources acquisition, (4) planning, (5) sales and instructions, (6) scaling impact, and (7) measuring and monitoring. At a theoretical level, the framework aims to structure and summarize the benefits of visual representations of knowledge for the field of social entrepreneurship. This visual approach has practical applications for social entrepreneurs who can utilize it as an overarching tool, for an informed selection and use of visualizations to support the development of their social ventures.

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Energizing through Visuals: How Social Entrepreneurs Use Emotion-Symbolic Work for Social Change

Cited by 140 publications

References 113 publications

Capturing emotions in qualitative strategic organization research

Capturing emotions in qualitative strategic organization research

The future of carbon accounting research: “we’ve pissed mother nature off, big time”

A Visual Approach for Developing Social Enterprises

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