Meaningfulness in Work in Brazilian and French Creative Industries

Bendassolli, Pedro F.; Borges–Andrade, Jairo Eduardo

doi:10.1017/sjp.2013.107

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“…Entrepreneurial aspiration has important implications for work outcomes and affects the implementation process of the psychological employment contract (Ballout, 2007). Understanding creative entrepreneurs' sense of meaning in their work can reveal their expectations of it and the values they place on it (Bendassolli and Borges-Andrade, 2013).…”

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“…Social recognition means receiving status from those in communities who acknowledge a person's contribution (Kasser et al, 1996). Meaning of work, a psychological mechanism, is involved in the perception or production of meaning in relation to work (Bendassolli and Borges-Andrade, 2013). As such, recognizing and acting upon opportunities are important parts of entrepreneurship, and the ultimate goal of entrepreneurial activity involves entrepreneurial satisfaction and aspiration.…”

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Creative entrepreneurs' artistic creativity and entrepreneurial alertness: the guanxi network perspective

Chen

Tseng

2021

IJEBR

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PurposeThe dichotomy of views on “arts for arts sake” and “art must meet commerce” elicits the clash about how creative entrepreneurs encounter the dilemma of fulfilling personal satisfaction and chasing entrepreneurial aspiration along the entrepreneurial process. It is argued whether or not creative entrepreneurs can integrate artistic creativity and entrepreneurial alertness to disentangle the conflict and tension between art and commerce in the guanxi embedded culture context. The complex guanxi ties of creative entrepreneurs identified as bonding ties with families, bridging ties with friends and social ties with colleagues are presumed to activate personal and social values.Design/methodology/approachThe research design consists of two stages: face-to-face interviews and empirical survey. A total of four successful local creative entrepreneurs in craft arts were interviewed and asked questions related to their source of creative inspiration, market alertness and value creation. Findings derived from interviews enrich the questionnaire development of the empirical survey. The survey was conducted to realize the social phenomenon of creative entrepreneurs' guanxi, cognitive process and satisfaction with Taiwan's creative industry context. In total, 318 creative entrepreneurs’ responses were collected and analyzed by using structural equation modeling (SEM).FindingsResults suggest that guanxi networks lead to the acquisition of various social resources that are conducive to alertness in entrepreneurial opportunities and stimulate artistic creativity, which in turn gratify creative entrepreneurs' senses of entrepreneurial satisfaction with life, work and social contribution, as well as achieve higher entrepreneurial aspiration, perceived as social recognition and meaning of work.Practical implicationsResults of this study enrich the understanding of creative entrepreneurs and their awareness of balancing opportunity alerting and artistic creativity while starting creative businesses. Diverseness and closeness of guanxi networks can fill the gap between art and market and further pave the way to winning aspiration.Originality/valueThis paper advances the existing literature on creative entrepreneurship by adopting guanxi network theory to explore entrepreneurs' cognitive process in the linkage of artistic creativity and entrepreneurial alertness and their mediating effects on perceived entrepreneurial satisfaction and aspiration.

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Creative entrepreneurs' artistic creativity and entrepreneurial alertness: the guanxi network perspective

Chen

Tseng

2021

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“…One reason may be related to the sample composition. It is possible, for example, that the participants in the current sample might be closer, in terms of working values and representations, to a work culture associated much more with traditional economic activities than to a creative culture -something that has already been suggested by other studies with artists (e.g., Bendassolli & Borges-Andrade, 2013;Menger, 2002Menger, , 2009. The valorization of expressiveness as a single factor may be related to the socialization in artistic culture, which has been pointed out to be a culture marked by particular orientations regarding work, occupation, work-life balance, and preferences (e.g., Chateau, 2008;Menger, 1999Menger, , 2009.…”

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Meaningful Work Scale in creative industries: a confirmatory factor analysis

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This study conducts a confirmatory factor analysis of a meaningful Canadian work model. The sample comprised 446 professionals working in creative industries based in Midwestern and Northeastern Brazil who completed the 25-item Meaningful Work Scale (MWS). This study tested both the original Canadian five-factor model and a six-factor model previously adapted into Portuguese, based on professionals from São Paulo's creative industries. The results indicate that globally, both models, when re-specified, seem to fit the data. However, an inspection of the local fit indices suggests problems with both models, specifically in two factors: development and learning, and expressiveness and identification with work. We discuss the extent to which these findings may relate to cultural and occupational influences. The paper concludes that the meaningful work model, although it can vary in content, is vulnerable to possible subculture differences in the Brazilian context. Keywords: work; meaning; employee attitudes. Escala do Trabalho com Sentido nas indústrias criativas: análise fatorial confirmatóriaResumo O objetivo deste artigo é realizar uma análise fatorial confirmatória de um modelo canadense de trabalho com sentido. Participaram desta pesquisa 446 profissionais das indústrias criativas das regiões centro-oeste e nordeste do Brasil. Esses participantes responderam à Escala do Trabalho com Sentido (ETS), composta por 25 itens. Foram testados tanto o modelo original canadense de cinco fatores como o de seis fatores previamente validado para o contexto brasileiro. Os resultados indicam que, globalmente, os dois modelos reespecificados apresentam evidências de adequação. Porém, a inspeção do ajuste local revela problemas em ambos, particularmente em relação a dois fatores: desenvolvimento e aprendizagem, e expressividade e identificação no trabalho. Discute-se em que medida esses achados podem estar associados a influências culturais e ocupacionais. Conclui-se que o constructo do trabalho com sentido, embora possa variar em conteúdo, resiste a possíveis diferenças de subculturas no contexto brasileiro. Palavras-chave: trabalho; significado; atitudes do empregado. Escala de Trabajo con sentido en las industrias creativas: un análisis factorial confirmatorio ResumenEste artículo realiza un análisis factorial confirmatorio de un modelo canadiense de Trabajo con Sentido. Participaron 446 profesionales de las industrias creativas de la región centro-oeste y nordeste de Brasil. Esos participantes respondieron a la Escala de Trabajo con Sentido (ETS) compuesta por 25 ítems. Se experimentó el modelo original canadiense de cinco factores, así como el de seis factores previamente validado para el contexto brasileño. Los resultados indicaron que, globalmente, ambos modelos re-especificados presentan evidencias de adecuación. Sin embargo, la inspección del ajuste local revela problemas en los dos modelos, particularmente en relación a dos factores: desarrollo y aprendizaje, y expresividad e identificación en el trabajo. Se ...

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“…Sense and meaningful or meaningfulness may have the same translation into Portuguese. In English, there are theoretical differences between these words, but analysis of the differences lies beyond the scope of this paper (for this, see Bendassolli & Borges-Andrade, 2013). 1 Conceptual imprecisions are related to problems in our ways of understanding what concepts are and what their role is in scientific research.…”

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“…of study concerning the sense/meaning of work, as suggested by Borges (1998) and Tolfo et al (2011), among others (e.g., Bendassolli & Borges-Andrade, 2013;Bendassolli & Gondim, 2014). Operationally, we first characterize the sense/meaning research productions, identifying authorship, year, and geographical place of publication in addition to methodological aspects of the studies.…”

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La producción científica brasileña sobre sentidos y significados del trabajo: una revisión de la utilización terminológica y de las clasificaciones temáticas existentes

Bendassolli

Coelho-Lima

Pinheiro

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Av. Psicol. Latinoam.

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This paper presents a review of the Brazilian scientific literature on the sense and meaning of work, in order to identify the researchers' use of terminology and the branches of research on the subject. We examine a corpus of 70 papers electronically retrieved from databases for psychology and related fields through software-aided content analysis. The studies on the sense and meaning of work have primarily been developed since the year 2000, especially in the field of psychology. Most of these studies have a qualitative aspect and rely on a wide variety of distinct theoretical perspectives. These perspectives can be understood through four categories of terminological use: exclusive use of meaning of work; exclusive use of sense of work; use of both meaning and sense of work; and no identifiable or unique terminological preference.

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Meaningfulness in Work in Brazilian and French Creative Industries

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

Creative entrepreneurs' artistic creativity and entrepreneurial alertness: the guanxi network perspective

Creative entrepreneurs' artistic creativity and entrepreneurial alertness: the guanxi network perspective

Meaningful Work Scale in creative industries: a confirmatory factor analysis

La producción científica brasileña sobre sentidos y significados del trabajo: una revisión de la utilización terminológica y de las clasificaciones temáticas existentes

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