Marina Biniari

The Emotional Embeddedness of Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Case of Envy

This article argues for the emotional embeddedness of the entrepreneurial act as a moderator of its social embeddedness. Building on the theoretical grounds of the sociology of emotions, we propose the study of entrepreneurial affect as an element of the social–emotional interaction between the entrepreneur and the others who are influenced by the entrepreneurial process. The empirical context of corporate entrepreneurship is used to illustrate how the emotion cycle around the entrepreneurial act, involving the emotions of corporate entrepreneurs and others, indicates the emotional embeddedness of the latter. The emergence of envy toward members of two venturing programs is used to exemplify low levels of emotional and consequently social embeddedness.

Collective identity construction in international collaborations

This paper explores the complex processes of collective identity construction among the participating organizational members in inter-organizational collaborations that cross national boundaries. D...

The Emergence of Collective Corporate Entrepreneurial Identity

We report on the findings of two inductive, interpretive case studies of collective corporate entrepreneurial identity emergence, resulting from the establishment of corporate venturing units in two established corporations. We examined middle managers� identity work and the collective enactment of communities of entrepreneurial practices as the mechanism to transcend effects of individual identity work to the group and organizational level. The emergent model of collective corporate entrepreneurial identity revolves around the fragmentation and exemplification processes by which the corporate entrepreneur role identity prototype is constructed at the individual level, and around the reconstruction and legitimization processes through which other organizational members embrace the emerging collective corporate entrepreneurial identity at the meso and organizational level of analysis. The moderating role of organizational pressures and individuals� distinctiveness drive is also highlighted.