How Entrepreneurial Strategizing shapes Scaling Potentials: In the “trading zone” between opportunity creation and strategic engagement
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2018
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Abstract
The question of how entrepreneurial ventures scale into strategic initiatives and larger businesses is a recurrent puzzle in entrepreneurship and strategy research. We enrich this research by taking a practice perspective, understanding “entrepreneurial” and “strategic” as two references that managers mobilize when dealing with controversial topics concerning current and future organizational value creation. Based on an embedded multiple case study, we argue that the “trading” between these two references in the performance of specific strategizing practices shapes the potential for new opportunities, initiatives and businesses to scale in the further development. By practicing entrepreneurial strategizing, managers negotiate different possibilities to understand possible moves, and shape the scaling potential in four distinct way: project scaling, thematic scaling, product scaling, process scaling. These four types develop around specific key entrepreneurial strategizing practices and their unique local performance. Given the specificities, it proves difficult to move from one scaling potential to another.
Language
English
Event Title
Academy of Management Specialized Conference From Start-up to Scale-up: Coping with Organizational Challenges in a Volatile Business Environment
Event Location
Tel Aviv, Israel
Event Date
17th - 19th, December 2018
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Eprints ID
256286