Selling your soul to the devil? The importance of independent ownership to identity distinctiveness for oppositional categories

Mathias, Blake D.; Huyghe, Annelore; Williams, David W.

doi:10.1002/smj.3180

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“…They frame a lack of belonging as a potential dark side of entrepreneurship. This is echoed in Mathias, Huyghe, and Williams (2020), who frame distinctiveness and belonging as oppositional. Our findings suggest that, rather than being the opposite ends of a spectrum, distinctiveness and belonging are at the core of situated entrepreneurial identities in different settings.…”

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“…Work has shown how ventures can be used as a vehicle in which a founder affirms and defends their social identity, pointing to the relevance of social identity in venturing decisions and behaviours (Powell and Baker 2017). Social identity literature has also explored the inner conflict that entrepreneurs experience as they are torn between their need for distinctiveness and that for belonging (Gehman and Grimes 2017;Mathias, Huyghe, and Williams 2020;Shepherd and Haynie 2009;Solomon and Mathias 2020).…”

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Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas

Knox

Casulli

Maclaren

2021

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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This paper examines how entrepreneurs within different settings reflect on social interactions to work on their identity. Using life story narratives, we explore a business membership network and a creative hub in the central belt of Scotland. Our subsequent model shows how individuals in these settings use different dominant interpretive repertoires, as represented by structural-instrumental work in the business network and relational work in the creative hub. We also show how the interpretive repertoires both shape and are shaped by what individuals strive for in their identity work: striving for esteem and striving for closeness. We discuss how our findings offer insight into the dynamics of social identities and how they are reproduced and maintained through situated exchange using specific interpretive repertoires and striving agendas.

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Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas

Knox

Casulli

Maclaren

2021

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…Most of them focus on describing the CB market in Europe, Brazil and the USA, addressing the status of the CB industry, historical events, strategic approaches and growth perspectives. Mathias et al (2020) found four eras in the CB industrythe growth era (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011), the sellouts era (2011)(2012)(2013)(2014), the ambiguity era (2014-2017) and the independence era (2017-). They differentiate these eras regarding identity, code centrality, insider role, reciprocal tensions, outsider roles and identity distinctiveness.…”

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Craft beer – a systematic literature review and research agenda

Nave

Duarte

Rodrigues

et al. 2021

IJWBR

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Purpose In recent years, the craft beer (CB) industry has gained impetus and has experienced significant growth in scientific publications. This study aims to present a systematic review of the literature on CB in areas related to economic and business sciences. Design/methodology/approach Based on the data from Scopus, Web of Science and a set of articles not indexed to these databases until June 2021, a total of 132 articles were included for analysis, using bibliometric and content analysis techniques. Findings The study allowed us to identify that CB has four main clusters/themes of research, namely, CB industry and market, marketing and branding, consumer behavior and sustainability. Detailed information on the clusters is provided. In addition, the results showed that publications addressing CB have grown significantly from 2015 onwards and are dispersed across many journals, with none assuming a clear leadership. Quantitative approaches account for more than half of publications. Research limitations/implications This study is a useful guide for academics intending to develop studies with CB. It provides a framework to structure future research by identifying existing literature clusters and proposes several research propositions. Practical implications The findings from this study are useful for CB companies to get an overview of the main issues affecting the CB industry and market to be able to adapt their strategies and stay aligned with market tendencies in the four main clusters identified. Originality/value This is the first systematic review of CB. Therefore, it provides a significant contribution to frame and strengthening the literature on CB and serves as a reference for future research. Based on the content analysis and cluster identification, the findings portray the status of current research. Accordingly, a set of research opportunities are offered.

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“…This article documents how concerns about the social approval of relevant audiences impede the formation of firm–SMO collaborations when they cross strongly oppositional field boundaries. Oppositional organizational fields, such as social movements or oppositional market categories, form “in direct ideological opposition to the existing dominant logic embodied by incumbents” (Mathias, Huyghe, and Williams, 2020: 2549) and seek to address the problematic elements or practices of incumbents (King and Soule, 2007; Hsu and Grodal, 2021). Members of oppositional fields are thus perceived as independent challengers of incumbents.…”

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Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm–Activist Collaborations

Odziemkowska

2021

Administrative Science Quarterly

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Collaborations between organizations from different sectors, such as those between firms and nonprofits or governments, can offer effective solutions to complex societal problems like climate change. But complications arise because organizations operating in different sectors rely on the approval of different audiences, who may not view these relationships positively, for resources and survival. I show how concerns about audience approval impede cross-sector collaborations forming between firms and social movement organizations (SMOs) despite their potential societal benefits. Firms wanting to signal their efforts in support of a movement’s cause may be eager to form collaborations with SMOs. But when SMOs’ supporters and/or peers define their identity in opposition to firms—when they are oppositional audiences—collaborations do not form. I argue and find that SMOs who cooperate, and don’t compete, with oppositional peers can better navigate the constraint of oppositional audiences. Firms, in contrast, aggravate the constraint of oppositional audiences. Firms’ inclination to seek collaborations to repair their reputations with their own audiences after being contentiously targeted by a movement compounds the challenge to SMOs of partnering with the enemies of their friends. My arguments on countervailing audience effects stifling collaborations are corroborated in 25 years of data on interactions between SMOs in multiple environmental movements and Fortune 500 firms.

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Selling your soul to the devil? The importance of independent ownership to identity distinctiveness for oppositional categories

Abstract: Oppositional categories emerge in direct ideological opposition to incumbent mass producers. In doing so, these oppositional categories, especially craft-based ones, emphasize their size (small),

Cited by 21 publications

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Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas

Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas

Craft beer – a systematic literature review and research agenda

Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm–Activist Collaborations

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