Sub-theme 32: Cultural Entrepreneurship: Identifying the Actors, Investigating the Processes, and Describing the Consequences
Convenors:
Michael Lounsbury, Alberta School of Business, Canada
Sara Mahabadi, Alberta School of Business, Canada
Nicholas Occhiuto, emlyon business school, France
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-09
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Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: Theorizing Cultural Entrepreneurship - Room: U6-P0-09
Chair: Ewald Kibler
Logan Crace
Culture as a toolkit for robust action: How cultural operatives harness multivocal storytelling to tackle grand challenges
Saulo Dubard Barbosa, Miruna RADU-LEFEBVRE and Sandrine Le Pontois
Entrepreneurship as mythology: Enlarging the scope of cultural entrepreneurship research
Rodrigo Valadao, Tim R. Hannigan and Michael Lounsbury
Fishing for entrepreneurial possibilities: Towards a more comprehensive research agenda on opportunity formation
Parallel Stream B: Ecosystems - Room: U6-P0-16
Chair: Karl Taeuscher
Lei Xu, Jade Lo, Liqun Wei and Siddharth Vedula
An event-actor view of entrepreneurial ecosystems: The case of local state-owned enterprise corporatization, civic leadership,
and new venture creation
Tomke J. Augustin, Suzanne Gagnon and Wendy Cukier
Learning to unlearn: Power dynamics, diverse relationships and change in entrepreneurial ecosystems
Stefan Korber and Lisa Callagher
The re-emergence of medical cannabis in New Zealand: Unpacking cultural entrepreneurship in redrawing boundaries within entrepreneurial
ecosystems
Parallel Stream C: Story-Telling I - Room: U6-P0-17
Chair: Lærke Højgaard Christiansen
Hakan Erten and Deniz Tunçalp
Cultural entrepreneurship in content industries: Unveiling narrative strategies of computer gaming and television series
Andrew Argue and Thijs A. Velema
Style and content as separate reference points for optimal distinctiveness in entrepreneurial stories
Shirin Biglari and Wadid Lamine
The emotional co-construction of storytelling in cultural entrepreneurship
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Institutional Dynamics - Room: U6-P0-09
Chair: Shipeng Yan
Tanja Ohlson, Danielle Logue and Markus A. Höllerer
Making
‘gender-lens investing’ work: Understanding the role of institutional
infrastructure in field emergence
Yunjung Pak, Tim R. Hannigan, Dev Jennings and Michael Lounsbury
Cultural entrepreneurship and the transformation of governance and
technological affordances on the Blockchain: From proof-of-work to
proof-of-stake
Guang Zhu and Filippo Carlo Wezel
Are we benevolent? Entries of charity foundation in China, 2004 to 2022
Parallel Stream B: Story-Telling II - Room: U6-P0-16
Chair: Micki Eisenman
Shannon Younger, Jonathan Preedom and Santosh Srinivas
Concoctions of the past: New venture use of history
Diana Jue-Rajasingh, Wesley Koo and Wesley W. Koo
From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures
Stephan Bohn and Alina Kontareva
Stories from values and profits. How the construction of narratives contributed to the emergence of the digital platform field
Parallel Stream C: Morality and Ideals - Room: U6-P0-17
Chair: Mara Brumana
Magdalena Winkler, Elona Marku, Giuseppe Delmestri and Maria Chiara Di Guardo
The boundaries of technology: Morality and technological evolution in the emergent field for cell-cultivated meat
Tim Risse, Madeleine Meurer and Matthias Waldkirch
True or false? How audiences collectively identify deceptive entrepreneurial storytelling
Simon L. Schmidt and Katharina Scheidgen
How entrepreneurial ideals shapes boundary work between internal corporate ventures and their parent firms as well as the
parent firms’ industries
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-09
Contextualizing Cultural Entrepreneurship
Chair: Jean-François Soublière
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: Categorization - Room: U6-P0-09
Chair: Dev Jennings
Karl Taeuscher, Eric Zhao and Michael Lounsbury
Escaping conformity pressures: Category exits in the Airbnb marketplace
Hanru Zhang, Song Wang and Shipeng Yan
Institutional logics in early-stage investor decision-making: Categorization through machine learning
Mart Ots, Joaquin Cestino and Madeleine Meurer
Entrepreneurship as a category: 30 years of dynamic evolution
Parallel Stream B: Entrepreneurial Dynamics - Room: U6-P0-16
Chair: Amalya Oliver
Monique Boddington and Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias
The slow hunch: The emergence of the entrepreneur's vision through search and pivoting
Micki Eisenman, Amélie Boutinot, Mathilde Jost and Sophie Michel
The
path of scalability in the creative industries: How to scale individual
cultural entrepreneurship to achieve sustainability
Niklas Dreymann, Lisa Feng and Suleika Bort
High technology ventures’ structurally embedded framing strategies to engage investment partners: A configurational approach
Parallel Stream C: Identity Work - Room: U6-P0-17
Chair: Tanja Ohlson
Sneetha Saji and Srivardhini K Jha
An entrepreneurial symphony: The harmonious interplay of support Systems in the identity work of women entrepreneurs
Rimleena Boro
Exploring the identity work and cultural worlds of middle-class Indian entrepreneurs
Anna Comacchio and Elisa Montori
Behind the scenes of the entrepreneurial pitch. A sensemaking process for identity formation.
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
A: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion - Room: U6-P0-09
Chair: Eunice Rhee
Sarah L. Marks, Helen C. Williams and Katrina Pritchard
Money is not important to me: Narrative demonetization as symbolic violence in women's entrepreneurship
Farshad Amini
Participatory cultural entrepreneurship for inclusivity: Narrating identities for individuals, enterprises, and places toward
humanizing possibilities
Lærke Højgaard Christiansen, Sille Bastrup and Thomas Burø
Theorizations of a grand challenge: The Danish tech industry's social-symbolic work with diversity
B: Cultural Resources and Processes - Room: U6-P0-16
Chair: Rodrigo Valadao
Qian Jin and Yanto Chandra
Visuals as culture: How hybrid organizations construct legitimacy on Instagram
Nada Basir and Margaret Dalziel
Enabling entrepreneurial potentiality: University work integrated learning as liminal space
Hsin Kuan, Ruey-Lin Hsiao and Jie Kuo
Cultural bricolage: Overcoming constraint by remaking cultural resources
C: Constructing the Future I - Room: U6-P0-17
Chair: Christian Hampel
Rotem Rittblat and Amalya Oliver
Cultural entrepreneurship and utopian identity among sustainability start-ups
Ana Alacovska
Demand the (im)possible, refuse to be realistic: Speculative experimentations, science fiction and the utopian impulse in
robotic design
Jennifer Ehmke and Simon Oertel
Weaving histories and crafting futures: Cultural entrepreneurship and storytelling in new venture identity crafting
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Constructing the Future II - Room: U6-P0-09
Chair: Tim Hannigan
Christian Hampel, Francesca Bacco and Elena Dalpiaz
An impossible project? How new ventures maintain their legitimacy despite being unable to fulfill their audiences’ enormous
expectations
Parallel Stream B: Legitimacy Dynamics II - Room: U6-P0-16
Chair: Jade Lo
Kashika Sud and Neharika Vohra
The path to building legitimacy through stories: Evidence from three women entrepreneur cases
Mara Brumana, Lajos Szabo and Alessandro Giudici
Legitimacy in transition: How do family businesses attain legitimacy in a post-communist context?
Sneha Pujani and Evelyn Micelotta
Sensemaking and drag: The carnivalesque route to legitimacy
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P0-09
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