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ADVANCES IN CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS ADVISORY BOARD

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Michael Lounsbury

Professor of Strategic Management & Organization

Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta School of Business

RSO Advisory Board

• Howard E. Aldrich, University of North Carolina, USA

• Shaz Ansari, Cambridge University, UK

• Silvia Dorado Banacloche, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Christine Beckman, University of Southern California, USA

• Marya Besharov, Oxford University, UK

• Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Ed Carberry, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Lisa Cohen, McGill University, Canada

• Jeannette Colyvas, Northwestern University, USA

• Erica Coslor, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Gerald F. Davis, University of Michigan, USA

• Rich Dejordy, California State University, USA

• Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris, France

• Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School, Spain

• Peer Fiss, University of Southern California, USA

• Mary Ann Glynn, Harvard University, USA

• Nina Granqvist, Aalto University School of Business, Finland

• Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta, Canada

• Stine Grodal, Northeastern University, USA

• Markus A. Hoellerer, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Ruthanne Huising, Emlyon Business School, France

• Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto, Canada

• Brayden G. King, Northwestern University, USA

• Matthew S. Kraatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Tom Lawrence, Oxford University, UK

• Xiaowei Rose Luo, Insead, France

• Johanna Mair, Hertie School, Germany

• Christopher Marquis, Cornell University, USA

• Renate Meyer, Vienna University, Austria

• William Ocasio, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London, UK

• Prateek Raj, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

• Marc Schneiberg, Reed College, USA

• Marc-David Seidel, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Paul Spee, University of Queensland, Australia

• Paul Tracey, Cambridge University, UK

• Kerstin Sahlin, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Sarah Soule, Stanford University, USA

• Eero Vaara, University of Oxford, UK

• Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford, UK

• Maxim Voronov, York University, Canada

• Filippo Carlo Wezel USI Lugano, Switzerland

• Melissa Wooten, Rutgers University, USA

• April Wright, University of Queensland, Australia

• Meng Zhao, Nanyang Business School & Renmin University, China

• Enying Zheng, Peking University, China

• Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS - VOLUME 80

ADVANCES IN CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

EDITED BY

CHRISTI LOCKWOOD

University of Virginia, USA

and

JEAN-FRANÇOIS SOUBLIÈRE

HEC Montréal, Canada

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

About the Editors

Christi Lockwood is Assistant Professor of Management at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. She conducts research on the interplay of organizational and societal cultures and is particularly interested in understanding how organizations and other collective actors use culture to adapt to shifting environmental demands and elicit positive social evaluations from audiences. She received her Ph.D. from Boston College.

Jean-François Soublière is Assistant Professor of Management at HEC Montréal. He earned his Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta. His research explores the cultural and processual dynamics of entrepreneurship and strategic innovation.

About the Contributors

Francesca Bacco is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bocconi University, Italy. She received her Ph.D. in Management from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her research focuses on strategy making and the role of organizational sponsors in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in new and established firms. She is also interested in cultural entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial pitching, and the evaluation of novel ideas.

W. Chad Carlos is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and non-market strategy in contexts such as health care, sustainability, and CSR. His work has been published in top management journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Jean Clarke is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organization at Emlyon Business School, France. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, UK. Her research explores how language and bodily displays are used in entrepreneurial communication as a means to develop legitimacy and access resources.

Elena Dalpiaz is Associate Professor of Strategy at Imperial College Business School (London). Her research interest lies at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship, and focuses on how mature and new organizations draw upon cultural resources (e.g., narratives, categories, institutional logics, traditions, and other symbolic elements) to achieve various strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial outcomes. Her research has been published in leading management journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science.

Rodolphe Durand is the Joly Family Professor of Purposeful Leadership at HEC-Paris and the Founder and Academic Director of the Society and Organizations Institute which he launched in 2009. As a scholar, his primary research interests concern the normative and cognitive dimensions of firms’ performance, and especially the consequences for firms of identifying and coping with the current major environmental and social challenges.

Joel Gehman is Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the George Washington University. His research examines strategic, technological, and institutional responses to grand challenges related to sustainability and values concerns. He earned his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University.

Mary Ann Glynn is an Associate in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, and recently retired from Boston College as the Joseph F. Cotter Professor. She served as the President of the Academy of Management (2017–2018) and is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Management. Her Ph.D. is in the Management of Organizations from Columbia University.

Paul Gouvard is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Theory at USI Lugano. In his research, he uses advanced natural language processing techniques on organizational texts to study the cognitive and cultural antecedents of organizations’ performance and of their (e)valuations by third parties. He is a Research Affiliate of the Society and Organizations Institute (HEC Paris) and an alumni of the Computational Culture Lab (Berkeley & Stanford).

Nina Granqvist is an Associate Professor of Management at the Aalto University School of Business. Her research focuses on how new markets and technologies emerge and develop in contexts such as solar energy, nanotechnology, material sciences, and quantum computing. Her work contributes to our understanding of institutions, symbolic management, categorization, temporality, and narratives.

Timothy R. Hannigan is an Assistant Professor of Organization Theory and Entrepreneurship at the University of Alberta and Co-Coordinator of the Interpretive Data Science group. His research is oriented around the early moments of markets, fields, ecosystems, blockchain entrepreneurship, and organizational wrongdoing. He holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School.

Mark Healey is Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Manchester, UK. He received his Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. His research examines the role of cognition and emotion in the strategic management process and the cognitive foundations of entrepreneurship.

Shon R. Hiatt is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He researches entrepreneurship, ESG strategy, and sustainability innovation in domestic and international contexts, with an emphasis on food/agribusiness and energy industries. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Oona Hilkamo is a doctoral candidate at the School of Business at Aalto University, Finland. She has a M.Sc. in Technology from Aalto University School of Science. Her doctoral research focuses on the social-symbolic construction of emerging technologies and markets, focusing on narratives, storytelling and visual sensemaking practices.

Daniel Hjorth is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is also Professor at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, the UK, and Adjunct Professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Management, Japan. He is the most recent former Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies, and publishes on organizational creativity, management philosophy, entrepreneurship, art and management, incubation/acceleration, and humanities and business knowledge.

P. Devereaux Jennings is the T.A. Graham Professor of Business at the University of Alberta, a Co-Coordinator of the Interpretive Data Science group, and a Co-Theme Lead of Land and Water Resilience group in the UofA’s Future Energy Systems research initiative. He has been active in organizations, environmental, and entrepreneurship research and teaching for many years, and served in various editorial roles for journals in those fields. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford.

Jade Y. Lo is Associate Professor of Management at the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University. She received her Ph.D. in Management and Organization from the University of Southern California. Her research aims to understand dynamics of market categories and institutions, the emergence of new industries or organizational fields, and cultural or institutional mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial and innovation endeavors.

Michael Lounsbury is a Professor and Academic Director of eHUB at the University of Alberta School of Business. He is the Series Editor of Research in the Sociology of Organizations and has previously served as Chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. His Ph.D. is in Sociology and Organization Behavior from Northwestern University.

Felipe G. Massa is an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business at Loyola University New Orleans. He received his Ph.D. from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. His research is focused on the efforts of entrepreneurs that violate institutional boundaries and span social worlds to introduce new practices and ideas.

Yunjung Pak is a doctoral student at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta. His research investigates how institutional complexity conditions entrepreneurial activities, organizational strategies, and the emergence of markets, including the empirical context of blockchains. He uses an interpretive data science approach combining qualitative and computational methods.

Elizabeth G. Pontikes is Associate Professor of Management at the University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on market dynamics, including market categorization, category strategy, stigma in markets, and innovation.

Eunice Y. Rhee is Associate Professor of Management at the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University. She received her Ph.D. in Management and Organization from the University of Southern California. She is interested in understanding how organizations influence audience evaluations by strategically managing the building blocks of meaning systems such as categories, frames, and evaluation criteria.

J. Cameron Verhaal is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Freeman School of Business, Tulane University. His research focuses on growth and competitive dynamics of small, entrepreneurial firms. Specifically, he is interested in how organizations in craft-based industries (i.e., organic foods, craft beer, and handmade products) manage growth, particularly when it undermines their identity or reputation as authentic, small scale, and traditional producers. He also conducts research on optimal distinctiveness and organizational stigma.

Tyler Wry is an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. His research examines the formation and functioning of hybrid ventures, with a particular focus on understanding the conditions under which these organizations emerge, attract resources, and affect society.

Foreword: Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) publishes cutting edge empirical research and theoretical papers that seek to enhance our understanding of organizations and organizing as pervasive and fundamental aspects of society and economy. We seek provocative papers that push the frontiers of current conversations, that help to revive old ones, or that incubate and develop new perspectives. Given its successes in this regard, RSO has become an impactful and indispensable fount of knowledge for scholars interested in organizational phenomena and theories. RSO is indexed and ranks highly in Scopus/SCImago as well as in the Academic Journal Guide published by the Chartered Association of Business schools.

As one of the most vibrant areas in the social sciences, the sociology of organizations engages a plurality of empirical and theoretical approaches to enhance our understanding of the varied imperatives and challenges that these organizations and their organizers face. Of course, there is a diversity of formal and informal organizations – from for-profit entities to non-profits, state and public agencies, social enterprises, communal forms of organizing, non-governmental associations, trade associations, publicly traded, family owned and managed, private firms – the list goes on! Organizations, moreover, can vary dramatically in size from small entrepreneurial ventures to large multi-national conglomerates to international governing bodies such as the United Nations.

Empirical topics addressed by RSO include: the formation, survival, and growth or organizations; collaboration and competition between organizations; the accumulation and management of resources and legitimacy; and how organizations or organizing efforts cope with a multitude of internal and external challenges and pressures. Particular interest is growing in the complexities of contemporary organizations as they cope with changing social expectations and as they seek to address societal problems related to corporate social responsibility, inequality, corruption and wrongdoing, and the challenge of new technologies. As a result, levels of analysis reach from the individual, to the organization, industry, community and field, and even the nation-state or world society. Much research is multi-level and embraces both qualitative and quantitative forms of data.

Diverse theory is employed or constructed to enhance our understanding of these topics. While anchored in the discipline of sociology and the field of management, RSO also welcomes theoretical engagement that draws on other disciplinary conversations – such as those in political science or economics, as well as work from diverse philosophical traditions. RSO scholarship has helped push forward a plethora theoretical conversations on institutions and institutional change, networks, practice, culture, power, inequality, social movements, categories, routines, organization design and change, configurational dynamics, and many other topics.

Each volume of RSO tends to be thematically focused on a particular empirical phenomenon (e.g., creative industries, multinational corporations, and entrepreneurship) or theoretical conversation (e.g., institutional logics, actors and agency, and microfoundations). The series publishes papers by junior as well as leading international scholars, and embraces diversity on all dimensions. If you are scholar interested in organizations or organizing, I hope you find RSO to be an invaluable resource as you develop your work.

Professor Michael Lounsbury

Series Editor, Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta