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Entrepreneurship through a qualitative lens (Entrepreneurship…

- - - - “Entrepreneurial Inception: The Role of Imprinting in Entrepreneurial Action.” Using semi-structured interviews and archival analysis, These formative elements of the external environment, the authors argue, serve as sources of a “lasting and persistent stamp on entrepreneurs” that influence their future ability to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities.in this issue identify a range of recurrent sources of imprinting, including influential people (family, friends), practices (work experiences, hobbies, exposure to technology) and temporal phases of life
      - A second paper that also uses the concept of imprinting appears in the paper titled “Entrepreneurial Legacy: Toward a Theory of How Some Family Firms Nurture Trans-generational Entrepreneurship” Seeking to understand how these family firms have endured for so long, the authors determine that the families' ability to systemically embed the entrepreneurial values and spirit of the founder onto at least onemember of each successive generation is the key to success.
      - The third study that reinforces a “realist” ontology of entrepreneurial opportunity is titled “Embedded Entrepreneurship in the Creative Reconstruction of Place.” In this ethnographic study of two depleted communities in Northern Ireland, the authors focus on understanding how individuals who are highly embedded in their local context identify entrepreneurial opportunities.
      - The final paper in this group is, “How Should We Divide the Pie? Equity Distribution and Its Impact on Entrepreneurial Teams”. The study finds that the perceptions of justice amongst team members at the.initial stages of equity division have a profound imprinting effect on the long-run success of the entrepreneurial venture.
      - Collectively these four papers adopt the assumption that opportunities exist in the environment external to the entrepreneur.
    - - paper titled “Opportunities and Institution: A Co-creation Story of the King Crab Industry”. Using primarily archival/historical research methods of a single case study,
      - paper titled “Emotional Arousal and Entrepreneurial Outcomes: Combining Qualitative Methods to Elaborate Theory.” The authors study acts of entrepreneurship in the super yacht industry and seek to understand the role of emotion and dramaturgy in acts of entrepreneurship.
      - “Failed but Not Finished: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Venture Failure Stigmatization.” This paper is unique in that does not address entrepreneurial success but rather tries to understand howentrepreneurs dealwith failure.
      - paper titled “Institutional Entrepreneur's Social Mobility in Organizational Fields” also adopts the perspective that successful entrepreneurs create rather than discover opportunity
      - “The Evolution of Interorganizational Relationships in Emerging Ventures: An Ethnographic Study within the New Product Development Process.” , the authors conclude that entrepreneurial success is the result of the degree of attentiveness of entrepreneurial firmsin constructing interorganizational networks.
- - - - One clear conclusion fromthis point of distinction is the proposition that the discovery thesis of entrepreneurial opportunity contains an inherent assumption that the external environment is both distinct fromandmore agentic than the entrepreneur. By contrast, in the creation thesis, the boundary between entrepreneur and environment is less distinct and the degree of agency between entrepreneur and environment is more evenly distributed.
    - - another proposition that we can draw from our studies is that the discovery thesis of entrepreneurial opportunity contains within it a distinct set of assumptions about the role and influence of time. In these studies time is seen as having an isolated episodic influence that creates path dependency in which critical incidents bear enduring effect that constrains or enables the ability to identify opportunity. From the creation perspective, by contrast, time is iterative, rather than a determinative influence, in which the entrepreneur's ongoing interaction with the environment creates mutual and simultaneous changes in both the entrepreneur and the environment that, over time, constructs opportunity.
    - - A third proposition that we draw from the articles, thus, is the observation that entrepreneurial imprinting focuses our attention on concrete practices and objective experiences that are highly influential in explainingwhy and howindividual differences in the ability to recognize entrepreneurial opportunity arise. The clear emphasis is on practices and behaviors rather than perceptions and interpretations of those practices and behaviors. By contrast, the construct of entrepreneurial reflexivity draws our attention to the subjective and interpretive inner world of the entrepreneur as a key mechanismbywhich entrepreneurs can elevate their imagination beyond the institutionalized constraints of the existing environment and conceive of alternative social, economic and political arrangements.
    - - other, the constructs of reflexivity and imprinting simply reflect differences in the observational perspective of the researcher. That is, researchers who focus on micro-level approaches to entrepreneurship, at the level of the group or the individual, are somewhat pre-disposed to focusing on somewhat objective and deterministic elements of the entrepreneurial process. In other words, looking “up” from the point of view of the individual or the team, the external world appears to be much more objective, powerful and agentic.