Entrepreneurship

Research on open strategy suggests that shared knowledge through collaboration can generate co-created value. We explore this idea by assessing it as a predictor of absorptive capacity (ACAP) in cross-sector partnerships in pursuit of social innovation. The findings of our study indicate that aspects of strategic openness, including a shared sense of interdependence toward a mutual goal, are the primary mechanisms that enhance knowledge accretion in cross-sector partnerships. The data also suggest that formalized organizational mechanisms are more influential for producing ACAP than informal mechanisms.

As the provision of public goods and services has become more complex, novel partnerships and collaborations across economic sectors have risen to take up the challenges of the new economy.  In order to collaborate effectively across sectors, internal facets of the organizations choosing to partner have implications for extra-organizational behavior and the success of multi-sector collaborations.  Current theory, however, appears to be inadequate to guide research and practice regarding these internal mechanisms.  We introduce the dynamic capability of absorptive capacity to the cross-sector partnership literature and resituate it using the lessons taught by collaboration scholars to develop new theory for explicating success in multi-sector collaborations.  We develop a new model that emphasizes participatory decision-making, goal interdependence, trust, connectedness, formalization, and cross-functional interfaces to demonstrate how new knowledge is acquired and exploited in the cross-sector partnership context.

This research considers a variety of independent variables to determine
the school-based factors that can predict alumni giving. Data for this
study are gathered from a top-tier liberal arts college located in the US
with an impressive history of alumni giving and a robust endowment
fund. The findings indicate that cultural components of the university
experience, highlighted by college culture clubs and Greek life, are
influential for future alumni giving. Conclusions drawn from this study
are useful both for school administrators attempting to increase alumni
gifts and for future researchers attempting to understand the after-effect
influence of culture.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the entrepreneurship center (EC) in the larger entrepreneurial ecosystem. Entrepreneurial ecosystems thrive because of complex interdependencies and
dynamic relationships between and among its participants.While the university has often been highlighted as a key player in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, the role of the EC within the university, despite its strategically influential position in stimulating entrepreneurship, has not received sufficient attention in scholarship.

Cross-sector social partnerships (CSSPs) represent a unique form
of collective social entrepreneurship. This research explores team
selection control – the ability of an entrepreneurial social collective
to provide input into the selection of team members – as an
important antecedent of team and job satisfaction. Additionally,
this study considers the role of justice in moderating these relationships.
The role of team selection control was tested in a sample
of cross-sector social partnerships spanning all three
economic sectors and divergent social objectives. Primary study
results indicate that team selection control is important to individuals
participating in CSSPs and that perceived levels of justice can
moderate the relationships between team selection control and
job and team satisfaction. The implications for scholars and practitioners
are discussed.

In this paper, we explore the antecedents of entrepreneurial piracy through a case study approach involving the move of the National Basketball Association's (NBA's) Seattle Supersonics to Oklahoma City (OKC). The move of the Supersonics highlights an aspect of organisational strategy where existing theory is deficient in explaining the phenomena regarding firm boundaries and resource acquisition. Specifically, we argue in this paper for an expansion of the traditional 'make or buy' decision to include a 'steal' option. Several propositions are offered to suggest that the context in which this act of entrepreneurial piracy occurred could be generalised to other cases of artificial market constraints on valuable resources and includes the features of information compactedness, opportunism, bounded rationality, and strategic deception.

While prior research regarding strategic projects recognizes the tension inherent in interfirm relationships, less is understood of the impact of risk sharing in the design of the contracts guiding those relationships. This investigation illuminates important performance elements of projects as they differ in the amount of contractual risk that is shared among firms. Through a multivariate analysis of 240 United States defense department R&D and new product development contracts, we found that defense contracts with partner risk sharing built in involve more change and growth than their concentrated risk counterparts. Our results suggest that projects, when managed through interfirm contracts, are more likely to involve strategic change when risk is shared than when either the buyer or seller assumes full design, technical, and/or financial risk. The results further suggest that projects containing shared buyer and seller risk enhance the prospects of joint gain through the generation of opportunities for learning.

Macromarketing attempts to address issues that engage marketing and society and previous ethical scholarship has focused on distributive justice and on exchanges that occur in conventional markets. As our research highlights, however, the distribu-tive justice approach alone is insufficient for managing the complexities, ethical paradoxes, and out-of-market conditions associated with wicked, cross-national social concerns. In this article, we integrate macromarketing with the theory of the common good in order to provide a foundation for framing societal change that can encompass nonmarket value, stakeholder rights, collective social priorities, organizational responsibilities, and political action.

Collaborations and partnerships that span economic sectors heighten the complexity of decision-making processes and introduce challenges for structuring collective action. As hybrid organizations designed for cooperation, multi-sector partnerships involving firms from the private,
public, and nonprofit industries are more likely to utilize a platform of open strategy than their single sector counterparts. Through studying the decision-making process of multi-sector partnerships, the
purpose of this paper is to suggest that the formative extra-organizational boundary conditions of these partnerships create fertile ground for a platform of open strategy.

Despite attention to the concerns of labor migration by public policy makers and scholars, the effects of international recruitment policies in developed nations on the economies of the developing world have been largely unaddressed by management literature. This work addresses that lacuna by combining hitherto separate streams of management scholarship with the fledgling fields of nation and employer branding to consider their synthesis in an international context. This combination introduces the possibility for evaluating the effects of recruitment practices on developing economies and creates space for future research regarding ethical international recruitment policies. We explore and discuss these issues from the perspective of potential employees in developing economies and offer suggestions to guide future research in this area.

This study examines the destabilising effects of an ethically corrupt counter-narrative within a non-profit organisation through a longitudinal qualitative research approach. The research focuses on determining whether embedded organisational tendencies, unbeknownst and tacit within the organisation, unwittingly contribute to radical and revolutionary organisational change. The results suggest a refined taxonomy for describing destabilising organisational change and make practical contributions to the non-profit literature. Based on the results of the study and the integration with other theoretical contributions, applications for practice and an agenda for future research are proposed and discussed.

The purpose of this paper is to describe how powerful regulatory stakeholder interests succeed in a business relationship due to what we refer to as "fuzzy acquisition boundaries". In the case described in this article, the city of Seattle, Washington lost their National Basketball Association (NBA) championship team, the Seattle Supersonics, due to combination of legitimate strategic deception, legal disputation power and low minority stakeholder salience by the city of Seattle. We postulate that these three conditions as well as a close relationship with NBA leadership provided the framework that enabled Oklahoma City People's Basketball Club to sever the tenuous but valued partnership between the city of Seattle and the Supersonics. While secondary source data is used as a basis for this case, we apply a stakeholder, institutional and transaction cost theoretical lens to provide insights for understanding how and why this NBA team was acquired and moved. Relevant literature and practical applications to strategic research are also discussed.

Courses in entrepreneurship are vital components of a business school curriculum and typically contain experiential learning techniques in concert with traditional teaching methods. Empirical studies of the effectiveness of these entrepreneurship courses at developing future entrepreneurs, however, have found mixed results. This paper makes the case that two important aspects of experiential learning, a whole person focus and contact with the environment, are too often neglected in the pedagogy. Incorporating these two aspects results in a five-step model of
experiential entrepreneurship education that has shown promise in developing future successful entrepreneurs.

Over the past thirty years, enrollment in entrepreneurship programming within community colleges has grown substantially. The two-year context poses unique challenges and opportunities for studying entrepreneurship and this article uses a narrative review approach to consider the vitality of
entrepreneurship education in the community college system. This research captures and reflects key findings from the field and illuminates the current state of scholarship on entrepreneurship education
in community colleges. Four key areas are highlighted that describe the primarily challenges and distinctiveness of entrepreneurship education in the community college setting: curricular effectiveness, emphasis, degree, and non-degree programs. The general framework that emerges
from this narrative review helps to identify gaps in the literature and provides a focal point for future studies.

As institutional innovations designed to effect societal change, this work considers public-private partnerships (PPPs) as exemplars of enduring entrepreneurship. By surviving beyond the initial objectives of the partnership, many PPPs exhibit continual renewal and repeated acts of entrepreneurship as they explore novel solutions to intractable social problems. With recognition of goal interdependence between partner firms and a structure of open governance, PPPs create unique opportunities for innovative ideas and knowledge exploration and exploitation. This manuscript explores the formative conditions of PPPs and suggests two important outcomes-enhanced absorptive capacity and knowledge spillovers-that contribute to enduring entrepreneurship and long-lasting partnerships.

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of a multi-level approach consisting of individual, human resource management (HRM) team, and organizational contingency factors when considering the efficacy of HR devolvement efforts. The authors accomplish this through a review of the relevant devolvement literature to show how outcomes are impacted by contingency factors, which highlights a gap in extant scholarship, and the authors organize the literature in a way that is meaningful to future
researchers interested in the topic as well as practitioners involved with its implementation.

The purpose of this paper is to explore cross-sector partnerships (CSSPs) from a strategic perspective to consider collaborations that are long lasting and transcend initial objectives. The authors integrate the concept of absorptive capacity (ACAP) with the CSSP literature and derive
two new antecedents of ACAP, trust and goal interdependency, with relevance to this context. This work responds to a call from ACAP scholars to consider the construct in alternative settings and from collaboration scholars to employ strategy research that approaches CSSPs from a viewpoint beyond a mere transactional approach.

Networks of serial entrepreneurs, investors,
and their affiliated companies play a critical role in
driving entrepreneurial behavior, investor focus, and
innovation hot spots within specific industry sectors
and are critical for shaping the character of robust regional
economies. This research explores the impact of
“dealmakers” Zoller ( 2010; Senor and Singer 2009)
who are actors that have founded, managed, or invested
in multiple private entrepreneurial firms, and hold concurrent
equity ties to multiple firms. By studying the
scope and connectivity of the dealmaker network within
the Tampa area metropolitan statistical area, this study
attempts to move the literature beyond aggregate analyses
of social capital Feldman & Zoller (Regional Studies,
46: 23–37, 2012) to focus on the individuals within
a specific regional ecosystem who drive entrepreneurial
performance. The results of this study are influential for
scholars of social network theory and for private individuals
searching for strategic partners, targeting serial
investors, performing competitive analysis, and gaining
access to investor and entrepreneur networks. For the
economic development community, this dealmaker
analysis delivers fresh insight for strategic implementation
of cluster and sector development and for the stimulation
of inter-regional marketing, recruitment, and
business development efforts.

Recent organisational scholarship has begun to rekindle an interest in the study of pragmatism and our goal in this manuscript is to demonstrate that pragmatist thought has important implications for organisational studies that have been overlooked due to contention over nuances of the theory. As such, we propose a synthesis of pragmatism through the COPE typology (Boje, 2014) that represents our view of the four main tenants of pragmatism: critical, ontological, positivistic and epistemic. Further, we utilise COPE by applying it to the question of organisational heterogeneity within institutional theory. In doing so, this manuscript makes important contributions to the study of pragmatism and institutional theory while providing new insights to predict how internal organisational processes are developed and how organisations respond to environmental pressures.