The liminality of trajectory shifts in institutional entrepreneurship

In this paper, we develop a process model of trajectory shifts in institutional entrepreneurship. We focus on the liminal periods experienced by institutional entrepreneurs when they, unlike the rest of the organization, recognize limits in the present and seek to shift a familiar past into an unfamiliar and uncertain future. Such periods involve a situation where the new possible future, not yet fully formed, exists side-by-side with established innovation trajectories. Trajectory shifts are moments of truth for institutional entrepreneurs, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms of how entrepreneurs reflectively deal with liminality to conceive and bring forth new innovation trajectories. Our in-depth case study research at CarCorp traces three such mechanisms (reflective dissension, imaginative projection, and eliminatory exploration) and builds the basis for understanding the liminality of trajectory shifts. The paper offers theoretical implications for the institutional entrepreneurship literature

The Institutional Legitimacy of Disruptive Start-ups in Sharing Economy

The sharing economy, with innovative business models (e.g. ride sharing, house sharing, and crowdsourcing), has threatened and disrupted the traditional industries. However, the process of such disruptions and negotiation of new institutional legitimacy is messy. Our study attempts to utilize institutional legitimacy literature to understand the dynamic process of new institutional legitimacy formation in a sharing economy disruption and generate a framework to explain the factors which influence the legitimacy process. We used deep- learning technique to identify the institutional legitimacy issues surrounding Uber, a leading tech start-up in sharing economy, from news articles published between 2009 and 2016. The preliminary results show that institutional legitimacy of sharing economy disruption varies by time and geographical regions

IMPLEMENTING ASEAN STOCK TRADING LINKS: TACKLING THE INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES

Benefits of financial market integration across different economies have motivated a series of mergers and acquisitions, and electronic trading link-ups across regional financial markets. Drawing on institutional theory, we look beyond technological solutions to surface strategies in tackling the institutional challenges in the context of cross-border financial market integration. Through an interpretative case study of ASEAN Exchanges, we found that successful market integration requires the active lobbying of regulators to gain regulative legitimacy, peer socialization within the profession to attain normative legitimacy, and the reframing of mindsets through education, publicity and new symbolic artifacts to achieve cultural-cognitive legitimacy. Results highlight the importance for entrepreneurial focal actors to adopt an institutional lens and its respective strategies to enhance the success of technology implementation in a highly institutionalized context

The Eureka Effect: Exploring the Benefits of Struggling with Technology

This research in progress piece adds two interesting theoretical insights to traditional models of adoption. First, it introduces the Eureka effect, which suggests that some types of usage challenges can actually increase satisfaction with the system--even if they decrease the user\u27s perceived ease of use. Second, it expands on expectation-disconfirmation adoption models to carefully problematize when a user\u27s expectations of a system are confirmed or disconfirmed and builds theory in the various liminal states in between preadoption and postadoption. Specifically, this paper builds the foundational base of theory and grounds initial hypotheses to support its two contributions to IS theory

Rapid Intrapreneurship with a Human Touch

The pace of change in digital organisations necessitates the adoption of rapid innovation practices. While rapid innovation is typically reactive to external uncertainties and shocks, firms that are capable of generating internal disruptions and innovating quickly can gain a competitive edge. This research investigates the role of intrapreneurship in promoting rapid innovation within an organisation's proprietary framework, employing an employee-led, human-centric approach. To explore this concept, the qualitative case study approach will be utilised, with MoMo, Vietnam's leading E-Wallet, serving as a prime example of an organisation that has successfully implemented such practices. Through an analysis of MoMo's internal processes and culture, this research aims to uncover the factors that contribute to the success of intrapreneurial endeavours and rapid innovation within digital organisations

Rapid Intrapreneurship with a Human Touch

The pace of change in digital organisations necessitates the adoption of rapid innovation practices. While rapid innovation is typically reactive to external uncertainties and shocks, firms that are capable of generating internal disruptions and innovating quickly can gain a competitive edge. This research investigates the role of intrapreneurship in promoting rapid innovation within an organisation\u27s proprietary framework, employing an employee-led, human-centric approach. To explore this concept, the qualitative case study approach will be utilised, with MoMo, Vietnam\u27s leading E-Wallet, serving as a prime example of an organisation that has successfully implemented such practices. Through an analysis of MoMo\u27s internal processes and culture, this research aims to uncover the factors that contribute to the success of intrapreneurial endeavours and rapid innovation within digital organisations

Recombination in the Open-Ended Value Landscape of Digital Innovation

Digital innovation introduces a new open-ended value landscape to anyone seeking to generate or capture new value. To understand this landscape, we distinguish between design recombination and use recombination, explore how they play out together, and redirect the attention from products and services toward digital resources. Digital resources serve as building-blocks in digital innovation, and they hold the potential to simultaneously be part of multiple value paths, offered through design recombination and assembled through use recombination. Building on this perspective, we offer the value spaces framework as a tool for better understanding value creation and capture in digital innovation. We illustrate the framework and offer the early contours of a research agenda for information systems researchers

On the Heterogeneity of Digital Infrastructure in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Digital infrastructure represents for startups in entrepreneurial ecosystems an important asset but also a major risk. Drawing on studies about digital entrepreneurship and ecosystems, we examine the determinants of the heterogeneity of startups’ tech stacks in ecosystems. Using publicly available data from the data aggregators Stackshare and Crunchbase, we identify popular endogenous categories in startups’ tech stacks. Then we conduct a visual network analysis and a multivariate regression analysis, utilizing the identified technology categories to measure the heterogeneity of the startups’ tech stacks. The analysis supports the propositions that firm age and increased funding are positively associated with tech stack heterogeneity, whereas funding rounds are negatively associated with tech stack heterogeneity. Implications of our findings on digital entrepreneurship and ecosystems are discussed