Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions

Abstract

While resourcing their ventures, entrepreneurs and stakeholders face and deal with unexpected situations, permeating the entrepreneurship process. Drawing on an entrepreneurship as practice approach, we explore how an entrepreneurial resourcing practice is collectively enacted, reconfigured, and repaired after a sudden practice collapse. Through a longitudinal case study of a social venture–public collaboration process, we reveal the collective repair work of a collapsing entrepreneurial resourcing practice and the role of emotions as a hidden element in the resourcing practice and the repair work enacted.

Fulfilling the process promise in new venture creation research: The ethnography/accelerator approach

“…For instance, the emergence and development of entrepreneurial ideas depend largely on their interpretation by investors, mentors, sectoral experts, customers, and policymakers (e.g., Dimov, 2007; Grimes, 2018; Tocher et al, 2015). Furthermore, the social relationships between entrepreneurs and stakeholders are central to helping entrepreneurs access resources (Davidsson & Honig, 2003; Kosmynin & Ljunggren, 2022). In accelerators, for instance, the creation of trustable bonds between entrepreneurs and mentors is vital to having their advice be heard and implemented (Mansoori et al, 2019).…”