Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda

Wigren-Kristoferson, Caroline; Brundin, Ethel; Hellerstedt, Karin; Stevenson, Anna J.; Aggestam, Maria

doi:10.1080/08985626.2021.2021298

Cited by 57 publications

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“…Entrepreneurship research has long recognized that entrepreneurs do not act in isolation, but instead, their behaviors and ability to identify opportunities are contingent on the environment in which they are embedded (Jack & Anderson, 2002; Wigren-Kristoferson et al, 2022). This research builds on the embeddedness literature which aims to understand the process through which individuals’ social relationships influence economic action (Granovetter, 1985; Uzzi, 1996), and the family is recognized as a fundamental social institution that shapes individuals’ view of entrepreneurship (Rogoff & Heck, 2003).…”

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Family Diversity and Business Start-Up: Do Family Meals Feed the Fire of Entrepreneurship?

Wang

Eddleston

Chirico

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Integrating the family embeddedness perspective with research on commensality and family meals, we develop a framework that explains why some families are more likely to fuel entrepreneurship than others. Inspired by the diversity literature and the role of the Chinese Confucian culture in shaping family dynamics, we explore how two demographic (i.e., age and gender) and two knowledge-based (i.e., education and industry) sources of diversity within family households predict a family member starting a business. We further theorize that these relationships are contingent on the frequency of family meals, as family meals serve as a conduit for how family diversity affects entrepreneurship by providing the setting where socialization and interaction take place. Using data from a representative sample of 8,162 individuals via the China Family Panel Studies in the 2014 to 2018 period, our findings demonstrate that although greater age and gender diversity hamper entrepreneurship, family meals “feed the fire” of entrepreneurship for families with greater industry and education diversity.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family Diversity and Business Start-Up: Do Family Meals Feed the Fire of Entrepreneurship?

Wang

Eddleston

Chirico

et al. 2023

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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“…We combined insights from this literature with empirical observations from our four cases to examine the multiple dimensions of embeddedness of small MNEs. In this way, we contributed to embeddedness research by responding to the call for further investigation of the interactions among the various types of embeddedness (Wigren-Kristoferson et al, 2022), especially in understanding how firms manage dual (simultaneous internal and external) embeddedness (Cenamor et al, 2019;Ciabuschi et al, 2011Ciabuschi et al, , 2014. Figure 3 summarizes our model of the embeddedness of small MNEs in multiple locations.…”

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“…Both external (outside a firm in its home or host market) and internal (inside the firm) embeddedness have positive effects on corporate, subsidiary, and innovation performance (Ciabuschi et al, 2014;Dellestrand, 2011;Yamin & Andersson, 2011). Yet there is a need to investigate further the interactions among various types of embeddedness (Wigren-Kristoferson et al, 2022;Yamin & Andersson, 2011), especially for understanding how firms manage dual (i.e., simultaneous internal and external) embeddedness (Cenamor et al, 2019;Ciabuschi et al, 2014).…”

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The Multiple Dimensions of Embeddedness of Small Multinational Enterprises

2022

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This research investigates how small multinational enterprises (small MNEs) internationalize by opening branch offices or subsidiaries in foreign markets, managing their multiple embeddedness in their host and home locations, and their subsidiaries’ dual embeddedness in external environments and within their organizations. We study four small multinational enterprises, two each from the small open economies of New Zealand and Finland, and we use literature from entrepreneurship and international business to derive a model of these multiple dimensions of embeddedness. The cases illustrate how firms can become more (or less) embedded in their locations through their physical presence, operations, key employees, and local hires while achieving internal organizational embeddedness through their corporate structure and social and technological bridging. Our research gives insight into how small MNEs may overcome their liabilities of smallness, foreignness, and outsidership by drawing on resources from home and host locations and sharing this throughout the organization.

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“…Work-community enrichment can consolidate the identity salience of entrepreneurs when crossing domain borders (Voydanoff, 2001). According to the functional cognitive path of enrichment theory, entrepreneurs tend to embed themselves in the communities to get social support (Jack and Anderson, 2002;Wang and Altinay, 2012;Wigren-Kristoferson et al, 2022). In the process of entrepreneurs' engagement in social activities (Zimmeran and Rappaport, 1988), maintaining a better neighbor identity (Greenaway et al, 2015), and exhibiting more prosocial behavior (Long and Yang, 2016), a sense of perceived control enables them to switch among their multiple identities more freely (Chasserio et al, 2014;Oo et al, 2019).…”

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Fire spreading across boundaries: The positive spillover of entrepreneurial passion to family and community domains

Xiao

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Passion plays a crucial role in entrepreneurial activity, while its positive spillover to the family and community domains is scant. We proposed an integrated enrichment framework of “work-family-community” based on the literature in the field. Drawing upon the matching samples of entrepreneurs' individuals, families, and communities in the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) database, we identified a significant positive spillover effect into the family and community domains and explored the moderating role of the entrepreneur's perceived personal control. The empirical results indicate that entrepreneurs with higher passion experience higher subjective wellbeing related to family members and have a higher likelihood of engagement in prosocial behaviors. Perceived personal control positively moderates the spillover of passion to life and economic satisfaction. The spread of an entrepreneurial role model's peer effect and the contagion of entrepreneurial passion have a significant positive impact on entrepreneurial behavior in a cluster. Synthesizing our findings, we contribute to the literature concerning work-family enrichment, entrepreneurial passion, and the spillover-crossover model and offer important implications for entrepreneurs' role transition tension.

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Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda

Cited by 57 publications

References 120 publications

Family Diversity and Business Start-Up: Do Family Meals Feed the Fire of Entrepreneurship?

Family Diversity and Business Start-Up: Do Family Meals Feed the Fire of Entrepreneurship?

The Multiple Dimensions of Embeddedness of Small Multinational Enterprises

Fire spreading across boundaries: The positive spillover of entrepreneurial passion to family and community domains

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