Magdalena Markowska

Contextualizing Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries

Entrepreneurship in emerging economies and developing countries presents us with a unique set of working attitudes, modes of thinking, social practices and processes. This book explores these chara ...

Contextualizing business model development in Nordic rural gourmet restaurants

Rural gourmet restaurants are becoming a vital part of regional development. The growing interest in high quality regional food, and the changing perception of values inherent in food, created poss ...

Entrepreneurial storying : Winepreneurs as crafters of regional identity stories

Context and entrepreneurship are intertwined. In some contexts, the ability to craft a compelling regional identity story may become crucial for enacting entrepreneurial action. Building on an in-depth case study of the recent revival of a Spanish wine region, we analyze the interaction between regional context (i.e. regional identity) and entrepreneurial behavior. We find that to facilitate the creation of conducive conditions for entrepreneurial action, entrepreneurs craft regional identity stories. We show that stories both reflect and possess agency and propose that storying is a process of constructing new identity stories. Specifically, we identify three different types of narratives and observe that the local winepreneurs actively engage in storying—that is, contextualizing the story to their needs.

The role of action-control beliefs in developing entrepreneurial expertise

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to theorize on the mechanisms underlying the development of entrepreneurial expertise. While prior studies have identified differences between the behavior of no ...

Contextualizing entrepreneurship in-between

This book aims to examine entrepreneurship as a contextualized phenomenon from different theoretical and empirical perspectives. We bring forth a group of researchers with different nationalities, backgrounds and empirical contexts to shed light on how societies with alternative paths of development trigger different entrepreneurships. In this volume, the focus is on emerging economies and developing countries. We argue that distinguishing the variety of contexts for entrepreneurship as well as the context of researchers can help us to better understand the richness of entrepreneurship phenomena in the world (Welter, 2011; Zahra, 2007; Zahra et al., 2014). Entrepreneurship includes working attitudes, modes of thinking, social practices and processes (Gnan et al., 2014) that are crucial in today ́s societies since they foster human, organizational and economic growth. This does not, however, mean that entrepreneurship needs to be viewed and evaluated in the traditional western way. As an alternative, we conceptualize these working attitudes, modes of thinking, social practices and processes as entrepreneurship inbetween. We elaborate on three aspects regarding contextualizing entrepreneurship inbetween as follows: (1) misplaced, yet fertile and unexplored contexts; (2) practice and theory of contexts; and (3) driving forces for entrepreneurial practices.

A dynamic model of entrepreneurial identification and dis-identification: An emotions perspective

Despite recognition of the centrality of emotions in entrepreneurship, little attention has been given to role of emotions in the development of entrepreneurial identity or enactment of entrepreneu ...