Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces

Gaining legitimacy through proactive stakeholder management: The experiences of high-tech women entrepreneurs in Russia

“…Theoretically, female Russian high-technology entrepreneurs transcend the existing risk-averse nature of external stakeholders (Navis & Glynn, 2011) by the enactment of the symbolic capital (Bourdieu, 1986;Rodgers et al, 2018), viewed as prestige and reputation, necessary to legitimise their businesses. In this paper, we see how symbolic capital has a transnational relevance as it operates across the dual fields of home and abroad (Rodgers et al, 2018). Gaining legitimacy with external stakeholders leads to the accrual of the financial capital provided by them and to improved access to established networks abroad.…”

“…Furthermore, as an unanticipated consequence, our respondents found that they were viewed as 'legitimate' not only in the international arena but, over time, also in Russia. While, within Russia, , they had previously been overlooked and ignored as a result of institutional and genderassociated constraints, they had then found themselves invested with international status and prestige (the so-called 'Transnational Symbolic Capital') (Rodgers et al, 2018), and, with this renewed confidence, they had then been able to foster further collaborative relationships with internal Russian stakeholders in order to sustain innovation management within their businesses. Such collaborations with internal Russian stakeholders, including women's business associations, had led to further support for innovation in their firms.…”

“…the institutional context (Welter et al, 2017) in which businesses exist and strive to develop their innovative products and services remains of critical relevance. Within the context of emerging markets-in which the institutional infrastructure is relatively less developed, stable, or even absent-certain weaknesses in institutional arrangements may lead to dysfunctional spaces for competitive business activity (Bruton et al, 2016;Verreyne et al, 2016;Rodgers et al, 2018). In such environments, firms often engage in a variety of activities aimed at offsetting any institutional voids (e.g., Khanna & Palepu, 2010;Mair et al, 2012;Puffer et al, 2010); this can facilitate the emergence of unorthodox 'exchange' relationships between firms and state actors (Doh et al, 2012;Lawton et al, 2013).…”

Understanding the emergence of a social enterprise by highly skilled migrants

“…The theoretical roots of social remittances intersect with the transnational and relational nature of Diasporas. Diasporans maintain strong transnational ties over sustained period, often becoming transgenerational (Haas, 2010, p. 247).Such ties facilitate social remittance exchanges when migrants return to live in or visit their communities of origin; when non-migrants visit their migrant friends or family in a host country; or through interchanges of letters, videos, cassettes and telephone calls over time (Levitt, 1998, p. 936), as well as web technologies (Oiarzabal, 2012;Rodgers et al, 2017). Moreover, social remittance exchange is influenced by the level of engagement of Diaspora members in societies (Sheffer, 2003;Levitt, 2001).…”

“…The concept of social remittances represents a paradigmatic shift in migration scholarship as it calls to move away from theorizing about diaspora contributions based on financial remittances (Lindley, 2009) and rather to focus on intangible remittances (Lacroix et al, 2016). Whilst the importance of some of these exchanges promote migrant entrepreneurship (Rodgers et al, 2017) community development and political integration (Haas, 2007;Lacroix et al, 2016), most literature of social remittances has focused on exchanges between migrants in specific locations within a host country (Boston, USA) and a developing country-of-origin (Miraflores, Dominican Republic). What is less understood is how social remittances are transmitted by several highly skilled migrants from the same country dispersed around the world, and whether a collective social remittance approach influences the emergence of a novel social enterprise.…”