Well-trodden highways and roads less traveled: Entrepreneurial-oriented behavior and identity construction in international entrepreneurship narratives.
Saved in:
| Alternate Title: | Las sendas más trotadas y las rutas menos exploradas: Comportamiento emprendedor y construcción de identidad en base a narraciones sobre emprendimiento internacional. |
|---|---|
| Authors: | Korhonen, Satu1 (AUTHOR) satu.korhonen@lut.fi, Leppäaho, Tanja1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Journal of International Entrepreneurship. Sep2019, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p355-388. 34p. 2 Diagrams, 2 Charts. |
| Subject Terms: | *Entrepreneurship, *New business enterprises, Autobiographical memory, Episodic memory, Narratives |
| Abstract (English): | We investigated the sense-making and contextual identity constructions of founder-CEOs of early and rapidly internationalized new ventures, seeking to gain new insights into individual-level international entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurial behavior. Via a constructivist study of 19 founder-CEOs' life narratives, we explored how the formation of mental constructions—the narrative scripts—of the "self" as an actor derived from the founders' episodic autobiographical memories, and formed the basis for their international entrepreneurial behavior. We arrived at five scripts of international entrepreneurial behavior, i.e., a Pioneer, Native, Diplomat, Gambler, and an Eclectic. Our findings show (a) how meaning-loaded narratives emerge from the individual-level sense-making of temporal and contextual experiences and (b) how narratives feed into identity construction. They also show that individuals within IE have very different background scripts in the progression to where they are now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Spanish): | Resumen: En este trabajo, se investiga la creación de sentido y la construcción de identidad contextual por parte de fundadores-gerentes de nuevas empresas de temprana y rápida internacionalización con el objetivo de arrojar nueva luz sobre el emprendimiento internacional a nivel individual y el comportamiento emprendedor internacional. Mediante la elaboración de un estudio de corte constructivista, basado fundamentalmente en las narraciones de vida de 19 fundadores-gerentes, exploramos como la formación de construcciones mentales –los textos narrativos- del "yo" como un actor relevante pueden derivarse de las memorias autobiográficas y episódicas de los propios fundadores, configurando asimismo la base para entender su comportamiento emprendedor internacional. Se identifica, pues, de esta forma hasta un total de cinco descripciones (con)textuales distintas del comportamiento emprendedor internacional, a saber, la del Pionero, el Nativo, el Diplomático, el Jugador y el Ecléctico. Más concretamente, nuestros resultados muestran: (i) como las narraciones cargadas de significado emergen de la creación de sentido a nivel individual a partir de numerosas experiencias temporales y contextuales, y (ii) como dichas narraciones alimentan asimismo la construcción de identidad de cada emprendedor. También se pone igualmente de manifiesto como los emprendedores internacionales presentan, a nivel individual, textos sumamente diferentes sobre sus antecedentes vitales y en lo que concierne a su progresión hasta lo que son hoy en día. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Database: | Entrepreneurial Studies Source |
|
Full text is not displayed to guests.
Login for full access.
|
|
| Abstract: | We investigated the sense-making and contextual identity constructions of founder-CEOs of early and rapidly internationalized new ventures, seeking to gain new insights into individual-level international entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurial behavior. Via a constructivist study of 19 founder-CEOs' life narratives, we explored how the formation of mental constructions—the narrative scripts—of the "self" as an actor derived from the founders' episodic autobiographical memories, and formed the basis for their international entrepreneurial behavior. We arrived at five scripts of international entrepreneurial behavior, i.e., a Pioneer, Native, Diplomat, Gambler, and an Eclectic. Our findings show (a) how meaning-loaded narratives emerge from the individual-level sense-making of temporal and contextual experiences and (b) how narratives feed into identity construction. They also show that individuals within IE have very different background scripts in the progression to where they are now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 15707385 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10843-019-00246-3 |
