Hypergrowth Exit Mindset: Destroying Societal Wellbeing through Venture Capital Biased Social Construction of Value

Lam, Laura; Seidel, Marc-David L.

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“…It is important to acknowledge my own positionality in this researchin my previous studies and employment in the technology and entrepreneurial sector, I saw how technology can emerge as a savior in many circumstances, but the amount of power, information asymmetry, and distribution of wealth is disproportionately profiting the privileged, there is a lack of questions asked regarding who are the people paying for the price of convenience brought about by technological advancements and true societal value from new innovations (Lam & Seidel, 2020).…”

Section: Chapter Four: Research Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Surviving, but not thriving? Lives of immigrants in the platform economy

Lam¹

2023

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In recent years, various forms of gig and platform work are becoming increasingly prevalent. In general, little is known about the demographics of workers in the gig economy and more specifically, the platform economy, and why they chose to pursue it. This research is a qualitative study using in-depth semi-structured interviews to understand the decision-making processes that immigrants go through when deciding to engage in the platform economy. This study aims to uncover the antecedents and consequences of immigrants working in the platform economy. The findings indicate that the challenges of the Canadian labour market pushed immigrants into platform work – these challenges brought out the attractiveness of the platform economy. Immigrants viewed platform work as transitionary in nature, a necessary step to achieve greater financial stability and skills-appropriate employment. Keywords: platform economy, gig economy, immigrants, precarious employment, technology, on-demand economy, labour mobility

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Section: Chapter Four: Research Methodsmentioning

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Surviving, but not thriving? Lives of immigrants in the platform economy

Lam¹

2023

Preprint

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“…2 Scholars can investigate the sites of technological (re-)production impacting the action possibilities of those practicing "digital" culture, that is the users of various technologies (Berente & Seidl, this volume; Jarvis et al, this volume; Schildt, this volume). Consider the role of Silicon Valley in shaping an entrepreneurial culture favoring a venture-capital-driven ultra-growth-at-all-costs model with rapid exits, fostering a belief of technological solutionism and foregrounding ideas of the (male) lone entrepreneur (Eberhart, Barley, & Nelson, 2021;Islam, Pillet, Navazhylava, & Barros, 2021;Kenney & Zysman, 2019;Lam & Seidel, 2020;Nachtwey & Seidl, 2020;cf. Malmström, Johansson, & Wincent, 2017).…”

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Institutional Perspectives on Digital Transformation

Gegenhuber¹,

Logue²,

Hinings³

et al. 2022

Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory

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Undoubtedly, digital transformation is permeating all domains of business and society. We envisage this volume as an opportunity to explore how manifestations of digital transformation require rethinking of our understanding and theorization of institutional processes. To achieve this goal, a collaborative forum of organization and management theory scholars and information systems researchers was developed to enrich and advance institutional theory approaches in understanding digital transformation. This volume's contributions advance the three institutional perspectives. The first perspective, institutional logics, technological affordances and digital transformation, seeks to deepen our understanding of the pervasive and increasingly important relationship between technology and institutions. The second perspective, digital transformation, professional projects and new institutional agents, explores how existing professions respond to the introduction of digital technologies as well as the emergence of new professional projects and institutional agents in the wake of digital transformation. The third perspective, institutional infrastructure, field governance and digital transformation, inquires how new digital organizational forms, such as platforms, affect institutional fields, their infrastructure and thus their governance. For each of these perspectives, we outline an agenda for future research, complemented by a brief discussion of new research frontiers (i.e., digital work and sites of technological (re-)production; artificial intelligence (AI) and actorhood; digital transformation and grand challenges) and methodological reflections.

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“…In identifying SUsinvestable -VCs prioritize those that: (i) are scalable and innovative, (ii) present unreplicable business models and (iii) have high potential for long-term growth. However, this strategy does not eliminate the risks of their investments, as there is no way to guarantee the survival of the SUs to market fluctuations (Lam and Seidel, 2020;Que and Zhang, 2021).…”

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Determinants of Startup´s Value According to Venture Capitalists

William,

Michele

2023

ERSJ

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Purpose:The objective of this study is to analyze the existing literature and identify knowledge gaps about the main value determinants of startupsaccording to venture capitalists' perspective Design/Methodology/Approach: This objective is verified through a bibliometric analysis and systematic review, which execution considers the use of RStudio, Biblioshiny and Rank Words softwares. The final sample consists of 184 articles, obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Furthermore, this study also verifies the main bibliometric laws -Lotka (authors), Bradford (journals) and Zipf (keywords).Findings: There is a future research avenue related to the analysis of: i) financial determinants of startups' value that are in more advanced stagesscale-up and maturee.g. expenditure on research and development, sales growth, profitability, ii) types of venture capitalists as startups' value determinantse.g., crowdfunding, angel investor, mutual funds and iii) alternative methods of startups' valuatione.g., First Chicago, Scorecard, Venture capital, Berkus. Practical Implications: The results of the study allow an approximation between the research topics of the academic community and the startup management, enabling a consistent evolution of this market segment. Originality/Value: The bibliometric analysis considers the verification of three main laws -Zipf, Bradford and Lotka. Furthermore, the systematic review is carried out through the codification of a (sub)categorization matrix. Moreover, the study also provides the analysis of the following aspects -not verified by other researches on the same topic: (i) stages of the startups as determinants of value for venture capitalists; (ii) geographical coverage between countries and (iii) mapping of the various types of venture capitalists.

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Hypergrowth Exit Mindset: Destroying Societal Wellbeing through Venture Capital Biased Social Construction of Value

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Surviving, but not thriving? Lives of immigrants in the platform economy

Surviving, but not thriving? Lives of immigrants in the platform economy

Institutional Perspectives on Digital Transformation

Determinants of Startup´s Value According to Venture Capitalists

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