Books by Miruna Radu-Lefebvre
Communication Et Langages, 2008
Papers by Miruna Radu-Lefebvre
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Mar 14, 2024
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
PurposeDrawing on an intersectional perspective on racial, migrant and entrepreneurial identities... more PurposeDrawing on an intersectional perspective on racial, migrant and entrepreneurial identities, this paper investigates the identity work of racial minority entrepreneurs with native-born and migrant backgrounds, confronted to experiences of othering in a White entrepreneurial ecosystem.Design/methodology/approachThe study takes a qualitative-interpretivist approach and builds on six cases of racial minority entrepreneurs in nascent stages of venture development within the Dutch technology sector. The dataset comprises 24 in-depth interviews conducted over the course of one and a half year, extensive case descriptions and online sources. The data is thematically and inductively analysed.FindingsDespite strongly self-identifying as entrepreneurs, the research participants feel marginalised and excluded from the entrepreneurial ecosystem, which results in ongoing threats to their existential authenticity as they build a legitimate entrepreneurial identity. Minority entrepreneurs na...
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
PurposeThis conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entre... more PurposeThis conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and becoming of entrepreneurial phenomena in business families and family firms.Design/methodology/approachBecause of the novelty of this research stream, the authors asked 20 scholars in entrepreneurship and family business to reflect on topics, methods and issues that should be addressed to move this field forward.FindingsAuthors highlight key challenges and point to new research directions for understanding family entrepreneuring in relation to issues such as agency, processualism and context.Originality/valueThis study offers a compilation of multiple perspectives and leverage recent developments in the fields of entrepreneurship and family business to advance research on family entrepreneuring.
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2023
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2022
Entreprendre & Innover, 2014
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, Mar 22, 2023
PurposeAs hybrid organisations operating at the intersection of opposing institutional logics, so... more PurposeAs hybrid organisations operating at the intersection of opposing institutional logics, social enterprises (SEs) pursue the creation of social value w hile functioning as businesses, which generates tensions between social and business concerns. Limited knowledge exists, however, of how hybridity is managed at the intra-individual level. Drawing on regulatory focus theory (RFT), this paper investigates the role of self-regulation in managing hybridity tensions in SEs.Design/methodology/approachA multiple-case design is useful in investigating the situated cognitive mechanisms underlying individual self-regulation in the context of managing tensions in SEs. The authors interviewed 22 managers from Belgian SEs that had been active in the home-care sector for at least five years before the COVID-19 pandemic to understand how managers handle the tensions between social and business concerns through self-regulation.FindingsThe authors show that managers in SEs experience three forms of tensioning: tensioning as intertwining, tensioning as competition and tensioning as superseding. Managers respond differently to tensions depending on their self-regulatory focus (promotion versus prevention) on social and business goals, and this is reflected in their hybridity practices (entrepreneurship, commercialisation, corporatisation and managerialisation). Informed by both social and business logics, hybridity practices serve as tactics used as part of managers' self-regulation, enabling them to handle tensions.Originality/valueBy studying the interactions between individual cognition and institutional logics, this study contributes to the micro-foundations of institutional logics by revealing the role of self-regulation mechanisms in managing tensions in hybrid organisations.
Revue de l'entrepreneuriat, Dec 1, 2023
Technovation, 2022
This paper explores and explains how, why and with what consequences business angels' trust in th... more This paper explores and explains how, why and with what consequences business angels' trust in the entrepreneur affects their decisions to invest, reinvest or withdraw funding in the Valley of Death (VoD). Drawing on the VoD literature and on business angel research, we retrospectively study two contrastive cases of success and failure of French start-ups operating in the IT sector over a period of two and nine years, respectively, by taking the dyadic relationship between business angels and entrepreneurs as unit of analysis. We document the business angels' trust evolution over time and we show how trust shifts facilitate or damage the entrepreneurs' journey through the VoD. We offer a process-model of sustaining business angels' trust in entrepreneur-business angel relationships to cross the VoD, thus addressing recent calls for more in-depth examinations of social aspects in investment and post-investment business angel research.
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2022
theories; we we are to go on producing. ‘To means first of all, ‘to digest’, as in the case of th... more theories; we we are to go on producing. ‘To means first of all, ‘to digest’, as in the case of the bees. But it means more: our consumption of theories, whether those produced by other people or by ourselves, also means criticising them, changing them, and often even demolishing them, in order to replace them by better ones. All these are operations which necessary for the our knowledge.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2021
This article presents an exercise designed for successors and other business family members with ... more This article presents an exercise designed for successors and other business family members with the aim to enable them to communicate their understandings of their family and family business' past legacies and to express their future-related projections. First initiated in France in 2014, then duplicated in United States in 2019, the exercise has been used in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education courses, with national and international cohorts. While the exercise has typically focused on classes composed of successors, it has also been used in executive education courses with business family members from older and younger generations. The learning activity asks participants to draw three consecutive images of their family businesspast, present, and future-to develop a visual narrative of the family and family business legacies and future. Participants are then invited to tell the story of their family business and to depict its imagined future using the three drawings as guides, within the group setting. This visual sensemaking exercise enables participants to
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
This article investigates how fatherhood (or the prospect thereof) shapes entrepreneurial masculi... more This article investigates how fatherhood (or the prospect thereof) shapes entrepreneurial masculinities. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory, we analyze 22 life story interviews with Finnish men technology founders and identify three entrepreneurial masculinities enacted by men to accommodate concurrent normative ideals at the intersection of work and family life. These entrepreneurial masculinities alternatively maintain, restructure, and resist entrepreneurial and parental hegemonic masculinities and are subject to generational and situational scripts. We contribute to the gender and entrepreneurship literature by revealing that the neoliberal new father discourse blurs hegemonic masculinities leading entrepreneurial masculinities to emerge as hybrid hegemonic masculinities.
Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Jun 1, 2023
Uploads
Books by Miruna Radu-Lefebvre
Papers by Miruna Radu-Lefebvre