Crafting professionals: entrepreneurial strategies for making a living through passionate work

Crafting Social Issues at Work

I present and test a model of issue crafting, in which individuals shape the meaning of social issues by intentionally using language in public that portrays those issues in ways that differ from the individuals’ private understandings of the issues. Using statements collected with an experimental design, I found that the public language individuals used was more economic and less normative tha...

Weekly job crafting and leisure crafting: Implications for meaningmaking and work engagement

Thepresent paper addresses two crafting strategies employeesmay display in different life domains in order to attain desired outcomes. On the one hand, job crafting is targeted at increasing social and structural job resources and challenging job demands. On the other hand, leisure crafting is the proactive pursuit of leisure activities targeted at goal setting, humanconnection, learning, andpe...

Making Capital Markets Work through Corporate Governance

Entrepreneurship Theory Revisited: a Framework for Design of Entrepreneurial Strategies

Creativity and strategic entrepreneurship have become integral to the managerial landscape significantly influencing managerial thought, corporate strategy and policy. Scholars of differing disciplinary persuasion have enriched this field with diversity of theoretical frameworks and concepts but it has also led to fragmented thinking. As a consequence while entrepreneurship, as a concept, has b...

Investigating Entrepreneurial Strategies Via Simulation

This paper presents an agent-based simulation tool that enables researchers to study entrepreneurial strategies, their associated financial payoffs, and their knowledge creation potentials under different environmental conditions. Opportunity recognition processes can be analyzed in detail both on a microand macro-level.