In recent years, founder identity has become a topic of interest for entrepreneurship researchers seeking to understand the factors that lead to a diversity of forms, goals and strategies among start-ups. The starting point for this study was the question – how does culture influence entrepreneurial identity? What emerges from this qualitative study is the question of identity-societal alignment. This determines whether the entrepreneur will aim for a purely economic logic, yet reproduce existing social structures, or whether he will aim to challenge and change social structures and norms with his product or his way of running his business.
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When time is of the essence and teams face unexpected contextual changes, they must adapt quickly, sometimes even in real time, that is, they may have to improvise. This paper adopts an inductive approach to explore how teams decide to engage in improvised adaptation, and what happens during those processes for improvisation to be successful. The study analyzes improvisation from the perspective of paradox
theory and identifies six paradoxical tensions driven by these contexts: deployment, development, temporal, procedural, structural, and behavioral tensions. We propose a dynamic equilibrium model of team improvised adaptation that leads to team plasticity.
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