Browsing BI Open by Author "Schou, Peter Kalum"
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Coming Apart While Scaling Up – Adoption of Logics and the Fragmentation of Organizational Identity in Science-based Ventures
Schou, Peter Kalum (Others, 2023)When trying to commercialize, science-based ventures often face contradicting institu-tional logics. While stakeholders appreciate scientific ability, they also increasingly demand conces-sions to a commercial logic focusing ... -
Controlled by the algorithm, coached by the crowd–how HRM activities take shape on digital work platforms in the gig economy
Waldkirch, Matthias; Bucher, Eliane; Schou, Peter Kalum; Grünwald, Eduard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)An increasing number of workers turn to digital platforms – such as Fiverr, Freelancer, and Upwork – as an alternative to traditional work arrangements. Digital platforms govern how gig workers join, move through, and leave ... -
Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bucher, Eliane; Schou, Peter Kalum (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)COVID-19 has caused significant and unforeseen problems for entrepreneurs. While entrepreneurs would normally seek social support to help deal with these issues, due to social distancing, physical networks are often not ... -
Digital communities of inquiry: How online communities support entrepreneurial opportunity development
Schou, Peter Kalum; Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In recent years, scholars have argued that entrepreneurs develop opportunities through social engagement in communities of peers. These entrepreneurial communities of peers, so-called communities of inquiry, are moving ... -
Divided we fall: The breakdown of gig worker solidarity in online communities
Schou, Peter Kalum; Bucher, Eliane (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The‘gig economy’presents a contested new workarrangement where freelancers find work on digitalplatforms. Subsequently, previous research has investi-gated how gig workers develop solidarity and takecollective action against ... -
Entrepreneurial learning in online communities
Schou, Peter Kalum; Bucher, Eliane; Waldkirch, Matthias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities and access funding and how they learn. How entrepreneurs learn may be transformed as ... -
Just Another Voice in the Crowd? Investigating Digital Voice Formation in the Gig Economy
Bucher, Eliane; Schou, Peter Kalum; Waldkirch, Matthias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Voice is crucial for workers as it enables them to better their organizations and exert some degree of control over managerial decision-making. Yet, as workers increasingly find jobs on digital platforms in the gig ... -
Pacifying the Algorithm – Anticipatory compliance in the face of algorithmic management in the gig economy
Bucher, Eliane; Schou, Peter Kalum; Waldkirch, Matthias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Algorithmic management is used to govern digital work platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr. However, algorithmic decision-making is often non-transparent and rapidly evolving, forcing workers to constantly adapt their behavior. ... -
Scaling the great wall: how women entrepreneurs in China overcome cultural barriers through digital affordances
Wiig, Heidi; Schou, Peter Kalum; Hansen, Birte Malene Tangeraas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Women in patriarchal societies face cultural barriers hindering them in pursuing entrepreneurship. For example, women are hindered by gender roles, male dominated networks and expectations that they take of the family. ... -
Structuring the Start-up: How Coordination Emerges in Start-ups through Learning Sequencing
Jones, Marius; Schou, Peter Kalum (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)To succeed in growing and scaling their organization, start-ups must establish roles, routines, rules, and plans that coordinate organizational activities. However, early-stage start-ups often lack such coordination ... -
Unpacking the Myth of The Entrepreneurial State
Schou, Peter Kalum (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The idea of The Entrepreneurial State, a state that acts as an entrepreneur, creating and shaping markets to solve certain missions, has captured the eye of the public and of scholars. Yet, a number of scholars have voiced ... -
What we do in the shadows – how expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’
Schou, Peter Kalum; Nesheim, Torstein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Organizations often depend on experts to carry out complex tasks that require specialized or tacit knowledge. Yet, organizations often want to increase their control over how tasks are performed and thus reduce the autonomy ...