Advances in Cultural Entrepreneurship
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United under the “cultural entrepreneurship” label, scholars have emphasized how entrepreneurship, strategic innovation, and organizational change are fundamentally cultural undertakings. Extant work in this vein has revealed how actors harness elements from their cultural milieu to secure the support of valued audiences, or undertake more profound changes to foster a cultural environment supportive of their endeavours. This volume aims to expand the agenda of cultural entrepreneurship research by celebrating (and advocating for) two promising advances.
Section A aims to put culture in cultural entrepreneurship research. Early research identified storytelling as a first mechanism by which actors could gain audience support. More recently, however, scholars have grown interested in understanding additional manifestations of culture and modes of meaning-making. Moving in this fruitful direction, this section includes chapters that explore the multiple views on culture in cultural entrepreneurship research, and the multi-faceted ways by which culture shapes and is shaped by entrepreneurial action.
Section B seeks to take cultural entrepreneurship beyond entrepreneurship. Early cultural entrepreneurship research has been predominantly confined to – and sometimes equated with – the study of new venture legitimation and resource acquisition. Making progress towards broadening the scope of what cultural entrepreneurship entails and can explain, this section encompasses theoretical and empirical investigations in a wide variety of empirical settings, illuminating how actors effect a range of outcomes.
Chapter 1. Two Advances in Cultural Entrepreneurship Research; Christi Lockwood and Jean-François Soublière
- Section A. Putting Culture in Cultural Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 2. Change-Maker and Culture-Bearer: Entrepreneurs as Evangelists and Shepherds of Culture; Felipe G. Massa
- Chapter 3. Giving Voice to Persuasion: Embodiment, the Voice and Cultural Entrepreneurship; Jean Clarke and Mark Healey
- Chapter 4. Projecting Imagined Value Games: Strategic Fiction as a Cultural Resource for Shaping Entrepreneurial Possibilities; Violina P. Rindova and Luis L. Martins
- Chapter 5. Giving Sense to de novo Market Categories: Analogies and Metaphors in the Early Emergence of Quantum Computing; Oona Hilkamo and Nina Granqvist
- Chapter 6. Towards a More Cultural Understanding of Entrepreneurship; Daniel Hjorth
- Chapter 7. Cultural Entrepreneurship: Theorizing the Dark Sides; Joel Gehman and Tyler Wry
- Section B. Taking Cultural Entrepreneurship Beyond Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 8. The Perfume of Traditions: Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Resurrection of Extinct Societal Traditions; Francesca Bacco and Elena Dalpiaz
- Chapter 9. From Surgeries to Startups: The Impact of Cultural Holes on Entrepreneurship in the Medical Profession; W. Chad Carlos and Shon R. Hiatt
- Chapter 10. Too Much, Too Soon: A Framework for Understanding Unintended Consequences of Cultural Entrepreneurship on Market Emergence; Jade Y. Lo and Eunice Y. Rhee
- Chapter 11. Shaping Cultural Meanings in Markets with Category Strategy and Optimal Distinctiveness: An Agency-Based Perspective; J. Cameron Verhaal and Elizabeth G. Pontikes
- Chapter 12. An Audience-Based Theory of Firms’ Purposefulness; Rodolphe Durand and Paul Gouvard
- Chapter 13. Mapping the Multiverse: A Cultural Cartographic Approach to Realizing Entrepreneurial Possibilities; Timothy R. Hannigan, Yunjung Pak, and P. Devereaux Jennings
- Chapter 14. Two Decades of the Theory of Cultural Entrepreneurship: Recollection, Elaboration, and Reflection; Mary Ann Glynn and Michael Lounsbury
Christi Lockwood is an Assistant Professor of Management at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. She earned her PhD in management and organization at Boston College.
Jean-François Soublière is an Assistant Professor of Management at HEC Montréal. He earned his PhD in strategic management and organization at the University of Alberta.