Know Thy Place: Location and Imagined Communities in Institutional Field Dynamics

Zilber, Tammar B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75328-7_9

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“…The perspective draws attention to a pervasive aspect of the venture that concerns its localization which makes it less easily transferable and translatable than what is suggested by abstract or categorical entrepreneurial stories (Fisher, 2020). This challenges a dominant description of place as a "regional container" or "boundary condition" for entrepreneurial activities (Kibler et al, 2014) by appreciating places as rich and dynamic concepts that bridge the material and the symbolic (Gieryn, 2000;Zilber, 2018). The cultural entrepreneurship tradition is particularly well-suited for advancing this perspective by foregrounding entrepreneurs' skilful interactions with their stakeholders (Soubliére and Lockwood, 2022).…”

Section: Incorporating Place To the Cultural Entrepreneurship Perspec...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, in the domain of institutional research, Lawrence and Dover (2015) demonstrated that public and proprietary places have distinct material and symbolic qualities that are key to institutional work, while Wright et al (2021) showed how custodians engage in institutional work to maintain places of social inclusion. Similarly, Zilber (2018) explained how organizational actors of an institutional field often invent and flexibly fabricate place in different ways. Place has increasingly been recognized also in the domain of entrepreneurship.…”

Section: Integrating Place Into Cultural Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(2021) showed how custodians engage in institutional work to maintain places of social inclusion. Similarly, Zilber (2018) explained how organizational actors of an institutional field often invent and flexibly fabricate place in different ways. Place has increasingly been recognized also in the domain of entrepreneurship.…”

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Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context

Kimmitt

Kibler

Schildt

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J Management Studies

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We extend the cultural entrepreneurship perspective by investigating how entrepreneurs in deprived contexts gain legitimacy by leveraging proprietary and public places in their entrepreneurial storytelling. Inspired by the sociology of place, we present a longitudinal study of 10 new venture journeys over four years in Kasoa, Ghana. We identify three distinct ways places are used in entrepreneurial narratives: projective significance of place, connective significance of place, and authoritative significance of place. We show how impoverished entrepreneurs construct and communicate places in diverse ways, not only as locations, but also as material and symbolic resources that provide legitimacy for their venturing activities. Drawing from our findings, we generate a model of place-based cultural entrepreneurship and elaborate place as a central resource in cultural entrepreneurship and new venture creation in deprived contexts.

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Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context

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Kibler

Schildt

et al. 2023

J Management Studies

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“…Dacin et al, 2018; David et al, 2020). A growing number of qualitative organization studies (Alkhaled & Sasaki, 2021; Cartel et al, 2019; Crawford & Dacin, 2021; Farny et al, 2019; Hultin et al, 2021; Lawrence & Dover, 2015; Siebert et al, 2017; Wright et al, 2021; Zilber, 2018) directly or indirectly grapple with place-sensitive questions to advance our understanding of how the materiality, location or symbolic meaning of specific places—such as communities (Vernay et al, 2022), buildings (e.g. Jones et al, 2019) or streets (e.g.…”

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Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research

Cartel

Kibler

Dacin

2022

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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There is increasing interest in organizational scholarship in the role of place. To support these developments, we offer a framework for place-sensitive research in organizational analysis. The notion of place refers to a unique location, endowed with a material from and a socially constructed set of meanings. In line with the phenomenology of place, our framework first distinguishes between two ontologies of place: place as experience—through which people develop a sense of place—and place as practice—through which people engage collectively to make places. Second, our framework distinguishes between three temporal orientations in relation to place: past, present, and future. We then draw from research in geography to reflect on two under-explored methodological toolkits to collect data on and analyze place as experience and place as practice in organization studies: walking interviews, and geographical videography.

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“…Kibler and Muñoz (2020) also assert that developing a CDE perspective also requires incorporating “community” theories. If we wish to “take the community more seriously,” the community must be positioned as a place‐based, dynamic ingredient (Fine, 2010; Zilber, 2018) for the theoretical development of community entrepreneurship. For example, Selznick's (1994) community theory, with its elaboration and interplay of key community attributes for comprehending community change and development (e.g., historicity, integration, plurality, autonomy, identity, mutuality, and participation), could be useful in articulating a dynamic and integrative framework of CDE.…”

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Connecting businesses and biodiversity conservation through community organizing: The case of babassu breaker women in Brazil

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We investigate the role of community organizing in connecting business activities and biodiversity conservation. We draw from a unique setting in the Brazilian Amazônia Legal (Legal Amazon)-the traditional community of quebradeiras de coco do babaçu (babassu nut breaking women), or quebradeiras-to show how this community connects the subsistence activity of breaking babassu palm tree nuts with local and global value chains (GVCs) in the cosmetics industry. As a consequence of multidimensional community organizing and local/global business connections, we show not only the ways in which biodiversity conservation has been realized in a large area of the Amazon but also how the quebradeiras have developed organizational activities that address persistent social, economic, and environmental challenges. Through community organizing, the quebradeiras maintain a traditional activity, connect with GVCs, and protect the biodiversity of the regional ecosystem. We thus call attention to the impact of business on strengthening community organizing and fostering biodiversity conservation.

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Know Thy Place: Location and Imagined Communities in Institutional Field Dynamics

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context

Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context

Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research

Connecting businesses and biodiversity conservation through community organizing: The case of babassu breaker women in Brazil

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