Oh, the places you’ll go: A schema theory perspective on cross-cultural experience and entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial sensing capabilities: the stimulating role of cross-cultural experience

“…Specifically, we make an important contribution to this research stream by integrating these into a formative index measure of cross-cultural experience and finding broad support for its rolealso for each of its indictors in post-hoc tests (see Table 5); extending recent studies in entrepreneurship that have tended to examine selected dimensions in isolation (e.g. Pidduck et al, 2020a;Vandor and Franke, 2016). This also speaks to our broader theoretical aims in understanding the root phenomenon underpinning all forms of multicultural experience in organizational contextsexposure to juxtaposition of novel cultural elements.…”

“…Despite longstanding consensus that there are broadly constructive linkages between international mobility and entrepreneurial activity in the aggregate (Fairlie and Lofstrom, 2015;Ghosh Moulick et al, 2019), entrepreneurship research that explicitly unpacks the unique roles of multicultural experiences as they pertain to individual entrepreneurs remains limited (e.g. Pidduck et al, 2020a;Tucker and Croom, 2021). Emerging evidence, though, suggests that multicultural backgrounds can develop intentions to enter entrepreneurship (e.g.…”

“…number and frequency of foreign trips) can bolster entrepreneurial alertness schemas (e.g. Pidduck et al, 2020a), and also born global career intentions (e.g. Pidduck et al, 2020b).…”

“…Such suitably unorthodox experiences can trigger sensemaking of likely image violations and its meaning in relation to the constituents of their self-image (values), trajectory image (goals) and strategic image (plans) (Beach et al, 2005). Therefore, foreign exposures or cultural interactions offer a particularly stimuli-rich class of shock-inducing reflection, especially with repeated travel across a diverse range of distinct cultures (Pidduck et al, 2020a).…”

Transitional entrepreneurship: Elevating research into marginalized entrepreneurs

“…Research both into immigrant and transnational entrepreneurship (Carmichael et al, 2010) has shown that these experiences provide transitional entrepreneurs unique insights into cross-cultural and international opportunities where the resources from one country or culture can meet the unique needs of another. Further, as growing evidence suggests (for example, Clark et al, 2018;Pidduck et al, 2020a) cross-cultural experience in itself can help entrepreneurs to connect the dots in valuable ways (Pidduck et al, 2020b); the integration of marginalization experiences with international experiences may amplify these opportunity recognizing capabilities. Indeed, the ability to act as social and cultural arbitragers is a unique role opportunity likely to be accentuated by those existing on the margins or by cultural outsiders looking in.…”