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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy Virtual Research Seminar Series - Oct 20

  • 1.  Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy Virtual Research Seminar Series - Oct 20

    Posted 10-18-2022 18:22

    Dear Colleagues,

    Our Fall Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy virtual research seminar schedule is available. Please visit this LINK to view and register for the different seminars. Our Elevator Pitch is listed immediately below.
     
    Elevator Pitch: Governments around the world enact policies that affect technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. An increasing number of scholars are investigating these topics, which has implications on policy design and program implementation. Yet, scholars lack a forum for presenting their work. This virtual seminar series will fill this gap-bringing together the insights from academia and policy application-thereby increasing our understanding of policy issues and build a forum for expressing these ideas and a supportive community to nourish them.
     
    The next research seminar is on October 20, from 11:00-12:15 ET. Robert Eberhart (UCLA) will present "A Legacy of the Samurai: How Communities Shape Venture Outcomes" (paper with R. Rottner and M. Lounsbury). Ted Zoller (UNC, Chapel Hill) will discuss. Click HERE to register. We hope you join us.

     
    Tim Folta (UCONN) & Maryann Feldman (ASU)
    Abstract: We explore how and why entrepreneurial ventures are influenced by conflicting community logics that cannot be simultaneously embraced or blended. We theorize that increasing community engagement is a core mechanism that enables such choice because it activates the valorization of employment. We argue that as community engagement increases, the depth of local social ties motivates new ventures to embrace an underlying stakeholder logic shaping its strategic objectives to favor employment growth instead of a shareholder logic favoring financial growth. We exploit a dataset of Japanese ventures, where a Western shareholder logic became dominant over the traditional community logic. In contrast to the prior view that community influences are resources-based and accessed through local networks, we offer a view that dominant community logics are permeable and dependent on a firm's level of engagement with its local community. We further offer a mechanism of employee valorization that depends on community engagement to explain our findings. We discuss the implications of our findings for the scholarship at the interface of institutions and entrepreneurship.