For the sake of nature: Identity work and meaningful experiences in environmental entrepreneurship

Gregori, Patrick; Holzmann, Patrick; Wdowiak, Małgorzata A.

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.09.032

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“…These contextual factors include the human capital skills and ability to respond to business growth demands and institutional factors such as availability of finance, government policies, the effectiveness of the legal and regulatory system, insurance support. Other environmental factors include cordial relationship with partners and host community (Gregori et al, 2000 ). Waste may not be universal but contextual.…”

Section: Literature Review On Lean Entrepreneurship Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Entrepreneurship and SME Practice in a Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era: A Conceptual Discourse from Nigeria

Ufua

Olujobi

Tahir

et al. 2022

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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This study investigates lean principles among Nigerian entrepreneurs and SME managers in the operational process in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. It offers the panacea to the challenge of social-economic shocks and their adverse effects on SMEs' business activities in Nigeria. The study adopts a conceptual approach to investigate lean entrepreneurship practice by SMEs in Nigeria. It relies on data from extant literature, using a conceptual approach to examine the social-economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic and critical environmental factors on the lean entrepreneurship practice in Nigeria. Furthermore, the study explores the influence of lean practice among SMEs and entrepreneurs in Nigeria and suggests a broad model for lean entrepreneurial practice in post-COVID-19 pandemic Nigeria. Findings highlight the broad social-economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges such as theft, host community pressure, weak legal system, and inadequate government policy support affect lean entrepreneurship practice. These factors constitute complex operational issues that would require the adoption of a more comprehensive approach to address. It also highlights crucial factors for post-COVID-19 pandemic SMEs' operational success in Nigeria due to deficits in infrastructure and regulatory efficiency for SMEs' operations to address the various challenges of business failures in Nigeria. The study suggests a lean SME and Entrepreneurial Practice model in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era. It emphasises the need to refocus the active interest of the lean entrepreneur on critical business sustainability. The study recommends a critical review of the internal operational process among practicing entrepreneurial businesses and a re-modification of public policies system that governs the operational functions of entrepreneurial practices for reasonable and resilient post-COVID-19 pandemic entrepreneurship practices that can support the SMEs and economic growth in Nigeria.

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Section: Literature Review On Lean Entrepreneurship Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Entrepreneurship and SME Practice in a Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era: A Conceptual Discourse from Nigeria

Ufua

Olujobi

Tahir

et al. 2022

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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“…Dempsey and Sanders, 2010) and their work being culturally positioned as particularly meaningful (Symon and Whiting, 2019). Gregori et al (2021) show how meaningful experiences or lack of meaning shape environmental entrepreneurs' identity work. Nemkova et al (2019) differentiate between manifest meaning (monetary rewards) and latent meaning (intrinsic rewards such as autonomy, creativity, authenticity, and recognition) in their research on self-employing freelancers who work on digital platforms.…”

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Meaningfulness and self-integrity at work amongst older, self-employed women entrepreneurs

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Ansio²,

Steel³

2022

IJGE

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PurposeThis study identifies how self-employed older women experience and represent self-integrity – an element and source of meaningfulness – in their work, and how these experiences are intertwined with gendered ageing.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used thematic analysis, influenced by an intersectional lens, to scrutinise qualitative data generated during a development project, with ten over 55-year-old self-employed women in Finland.FindingsThe study reveals three dominant practices of self-integrity at work: “Respecting one's self-knowledge”, “Using one's professional abilities”, and “Developing as a professional”. Older age was mostly experienced and represented as a characteristic that deepened or strengthened the practices and experiences of self-integrity at work. However, being an older woman partly convoluted that. Self-integrity as a self-employed woman was repeatedly experienced and represented in contrast to the male norm of entrepreneurship.Originality/valueThe authors contribute to the literature on gender and entrepreneurship by highlighting the processual dimensions – how integrity with self is experienced, created and sustained, and how being an older woman relates to self-integrity in self-employment. The results show a nuanced interplay between gender and age: Age and gender both constrain and become assets for older women in self-employment through older women's experiences of self-integrity.

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“…This article applies identity theory (Chen et al , 2021; Donnellon et al , 2014; Gregori et al , 2021; Hytti and Heinonen, 2013; Wagenschwanz, 2020). Specifically, we build on the notion of entrepreneurial identity aspiration that refers to a future but not yet realized entrepreneurial self (Farmer et al , 2011) and is rooted in the notion of possible selves.…”

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“…However, the notion of possible selves also allows for cognitive manifestations of selves one does not want to become, resulting in perceived threats and fears (Markus and Nurius, 1986). The act of distancing from specific types of identities is integral for constructing entrepreneurial identities (Gregori et al , 2021). To expand theories of entrepreneurial identity, future research can explore how students evaluate different role identities (e.g., employee, student, researcher, etc.…”

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“…In addition to the knowledge component of entrepreneurship education, the continuous development of an entrepreneurial identity is a vital but often neglected element in students' education (Chen et al , 2021; Donnellon et al , 2014; Edwards and Muir, 2012; Hytti and Heinonen, 2013). This apparent absence of research applying identity theory is surprising as entrepreneurial identity is an essential concept to deepen our understanding of why individuals start with and keep engaged with entrepreneurial activities (Farmer et al , 2011; Gregori et al , 2021; Murnieks et al , 2020). Studies investigating the construction of entrepreneurial identities are often restricted to individuals who are already acting entrepreneurially (Mmbaga et al , 2020; Nabi et al , 2017; Wagenschwanz, 2020).…”

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My future entrepreneurial self: antecedents of entrepreneurial identity aspiration

Gregori

Holzmann

Schwarz

2021

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PurposeEntrepreneurial identity aspiration refers to the desire to occupy an entrepreneurial role in the future and is an essential impetus for initially engaging in entrepreneurial activities. Building on identity theory, the article investigates the effects of personal attitudes, experiences and inclination towards specific practices on the strength of entrepreneurial identity aspiration.Design/methodology/approachThis article applies multiple linear regression analysis to test the developed hypotheses on an original sample of 127 vocational college students in Austria.FindingsResults show that risk-taking propensity, proactiveness, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and competitiveness drive entrepreneurial identity aspiration. The effects of innovativeness and need for achievement motivation are nonsignificant. Data further suggest that entrepreneurial identity aspiration is related to gender, while entrepreneurial exposure and previous entrepreneurship education show no or adverse effects.Practical implicationsBased on our findings, the authors argue that education should focus on teaching and discussing the identified attitudes and inclinations to foster the formation of entrepreneurial identities. Doing so increases students' aspirations and provides them with the necessary cognitive underpinnings for subsequent entrepreneurial action. The article suggests action-based teaching to achieve this goal.Originality/valueThis article is the first to investigate antecedents of entrepreneurial identity aspiration by connecting it to essential concepts of entrepreneurship research. The authors extend previous work on entrepreneurial identity and add to the theoretical approaches for research in entrepreneurship education. Furthermore, the article points out central aspects that should receive additional attention in educational settings.

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For the sake of nature: Identity work and meaningful experiences in environmental entrepreneurship

Cited by 44 publications

References 64 publications

Lean Entrepreneurship and SME Practice in a Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era: A Conceptual Discourse from Nigeria

Lean Entrepreneurship and SME Practice in a Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era: A Conceptual Discourse from Nigeria

Meaningfulness and self-integrity at work amongst older, self-employed women entrepreneurs

My future entrepreneurial self: antecedents of entrepreneurial identity aspiration

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