Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Is shame-proneness the missing link between social norms, policymaking and productive entrepreneurship?

Is shame-proneness the missing link between social norms, policymaking and productive... The purpose of the paper is to establish the need to study the shame-proneness trait of entrepreneurs – what is it and why is it important to study.Design/methodology/approachIn this conceptual paper, the authors argue that shame-proneness is an important understudied trait of entrepreneurs and put up a case for further research. The authors argue that shame-proneness moderates the effect of social acceptability on opportunity exploitation decisions. The authors also argue that productive entrepreneurship can be promoted and unproductive entrepreneurship can be prevented through policy intervention, and the level of intervention can be determined by knowing the shame-proneness level of entrepreneurs.FindingsThe key argument is the following: an entrepreneur is homo economicus and homo sociologicus, i.e. she is driven both by rational economic value consideration and by the prevalent social norms, which influence opportunity exploitation decisions. Since shame enforces compliance with social norms, it is vital to study entrepreneurs' shame-proneness to understand entrepreneurial founding across different regions. Knowing the level of shame-proneness of entrepreneurs in a given region would help the government devise effective interventions to promote productive entrepreneurship and deter unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship.Originality/valueThis paper is an original creation of the authors. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Strategy and Management Emerald Publishing

Is shame-proneness the missing link between social norms, policymaking and productive entrepreneurship?

Download PDF
13 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/is-shame-proneness-the-missing-link-between-social-norms-policymaking-50TE2xh07w
Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
1755-425X
DOI
10.1108/jsma-01-2021-0007
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to establish the need to study the shame-proneness trait of entrepreneurs – what is it and why is it important to study.Design/methodology/approachIn this conceptual paper, the authors argue that shame-proneness is an important understudied trait of entrepreneurs and put up a case for further research. The authors argue that shame-proneness moderates the effect of social acceptability on opportunity exploitation decisions. The authors also argue that productive entrepreneurship can be promoted and unproductive entrepreneurship can be prevented through policy intervention, and the level of intervention can be determined by knowing the shame-proneness level of entrepreneurs.FindingsThe key argument is the following: an entrepreneur is homo economicus and homo sociologicus, i.e. she is driven both by rational economic value consideration and by the prevalent social norms, which influence opportunity exploitation decisions. Since shame enforces compliance with social norms, it is vital to study entrepreneurs' shame-proneness to understand entrepreneurial founding across different regions. Knowing the level of shame-proneness of entrepreneurs in a given region would help the government devise effective interventions to promote productive entrepreneurship and deter unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship.Originality/valueThis paper is an original creation of the authors.

Journal

Journal of Strategy and Management – Emerald Publishing

Published: Oct 20, 2021

Keywords: Shame-proneness; Shame; Social norms; Productive entrepreneurship; Policymaking

References

  • The social value of productive entrepreneurship
    Acs, Z.J.; Boardman, M.C.; McNeely, C.L.
  • Social norms and energy conservation
    Allcott, H.
  • Investigating the impact of guilt and shame proneness on consumer ethics: a cross national study
    Arli, D.; Leo, C.; Tjiptono, F.
  • The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation
    Baumeister, R.F.; Leary, M.R.
  • Entrepreneurship: productive, unproductive, and destructive
    Baumol, W.J.
  • Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: evidence from rural Bangladesh
    Bhuiyan, M.F.; Ivlevs, A.
  • Dealing with the past and facing the future: mediators of the effects of collective guilt and shame in Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Brown, R.; Cehajic, S.
  • Vicarious shame and psychological distancing following organizational misbehavior
    Chi, S.C.S.; Friedman, R.A.; Lo, H.H.
  • The shame of it all: a review of shame in organizational life
    Daniels, M.A.; Robinson, S.L.
  • Not so ugly after all: when shame acts as a commitment device
    De Hooge, I.E.; Breugelmans, S.M.; Zeelenberg, M.
  • Testing for altruism and social pressure in charitable giving
    DellaVigna, S.; List, J.A.; Malmendier, U.
  • Nascent entrepreneurs and venture emergence: opportunity confidence, human capital, and early planning
    Dimov, D.
  • The role of negative emotions in the social processes of entrepreneurship: power rituals and shame‐related appeasement behaviors
    Doern, R.; Goss, D.
  • Sources of respect: the effects of being liked by in-groups and outgroups
    Ellemers, N.; Doosje, B.; Spears, R.
  • Social norms and economic theory
    Elster, J.
  • Social pressure and voter turnout: evidence from a large-scale field experiment
    Gerber, A.S.; Green, D.P.; Larimer, C.W.
  • Entrepreneurship and ‘the social’: towards a deference-emotion theory
    Goss, D.
  • An opportunity for me? The role of resources in opportunity evaluation decisions
    Haynie, J.M.; Shepherd, D.A.; McMullen, J.S.
  • Making human rights emotional: a research agenda to recover shame in ‘naming and shaming’
    Ilgit, A.; Prakash, D.
  • Emotional paths leading to opportunity desirability and feasibility beliefs through controllability
    Ivanova, S.; Treffers, T.; Langerak, F.
  • Wilful defaulters of Indian banks: a first cut analysis
    Jayadev, M.; Padma, N.
  • Social norms and community enforcement
    Kandori, M.
  • Shame and guilt in neurosis
    Lewis, H.B.
  • Entrepreneurship: productive, unproductive, and destructive—relative to what?
    Lucas, D.S.; Fuller, C.S.
  • Toxic decision processes: a study of emotion and organizational decision making
    Maitlis, S.; Ozcelik, H.
  • Entrepreneurial action and the role of uncertainty in the theory of the entrepreneur
    McMullen, J.S.; Shepherd, D.A.
  • The impact of social norms on entrepreneurial action: evidence from the environmental entrepreneurship context
    Meek, W.R.; Pacheco, D.F.; York, J.G.
  • The role of government policy on entrepreneurial activity: productive, unproductive, or destructive?
    Minniti, M.
  • To thine own self be true: images of self, images of opportunity, and entrepreneurial action
    Mitchell, J.R.; Shepherd, D.A.
  • The call of the whole in understanding the development of sustainable ventures
    Muñoz, P.; Dimov, D.
  • Shame on me: implicit assessment of negative moral self-evaluation in shame-proneness
    Rothmund, T.; Baumert, A.
  • Measuring opportunity evaluation: conceptual synthesis and scale development
    Scheaf, D.J.; Loignon, A.C.; Webb, J.W.; Heggestad, E.D.; Wood, M.S.
  • Shame and conformity: the deference-emotion system
    Scheff, T.J.
  • Party On! A call for entrepreneurship research that is more interactive, activity based, cognitively hot, compassionate, and prosocial
    Shepherd, D.
  • The role of public exposure in moral and nonmoral shame and guilt
    Smith, R.H.; Webster, J.M.; Parrott, W.G.; Eyre, H.L.
  • Testing Baumol: institutional quality and the productivity of entrepreneurship
    Sobel, R.S.
  • Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: an adaptationist and ecological approach
    Sznycer, D.; Takemura, K.; Delton, A.W.; Sato, K.; Robertson, T.; Cosmides, L.; Tooby, J.
  • Self and motivation: emerging psychological perspectives
    Tangney, J.P.; Tesser, A.; Stapel, D.A.; Wood, J.V.
  • Proneness to shame, proneness to guilt, and psychopathology
    Tangney, J.P.; Wagner, P.; Gramzow, R.
  • What's moral about the self-conscious emotions
    Tangney, J.P.; Stuewig, J.; Mashek, D.J.
  • The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary
    Venema, V.
  • You say illegal, I say legitimate: entrepreneurship in the informal economy
    Webb, J.W.; Tihanyi, L.; Ireland, R.D.; Sirmon, D.G.
  • Toward a greater understanding of entrepreneurship and strategy in the informal economy
    Webb, J.W.; Ireland, R.D.; Ketchen, D.J.
  • Shame proneness and guilt proneness: toward the further understanding of reactions to public and private transgressions
    Wolf, S.T.; Cohen, T.R.; Panter, A.T.; Insko, C.A.
  • Opportunity evaluation as future focused cognition: identifying conceptual themes and empirical trends
    Wood, M.S.; McKelvie, A.
  • Shame-proneness as a risk factor of compulsive buying
    Yi, S.
  • Opportunity recognition as pattern recognition: how entrepreneurs ‘connect the dots’ to identify new business opportunities
    Baron, R.A.
  • Introducing the GASP scale: a new measure of guilt and shame proneness
    Cohen, T.R.; Wolf, S.T.; Panter, A.T.; Insko, C.A.