TY - JOUR
T1 - Navigating interpersonal feedback seeking in social venturing
T2 - The roles of psychological distance and sensemaking
AU - Drencheva, Andreana
AU - Stephan, Ute
AU - Patterson, Malcolm G.
AU - Topakas, Anna
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - This study advances understanding of interpersonal feedback seeking as a relational micro-foundational process whereby social entrepreneurs proactively involve others in venturing and engage in sensemaking when this fails. Our inductive analysis of 82 interviews with 36 social entrepreneurs reveals the agency in and the plurality and precariousness of feedback seeking by identifying three distinct feedback-seeking trajectories. Feedback seeking is an identity-driven process whereby how and why social entrepreneurs seek feedback depends on their psychological closeness to the targeted social issue. Our study elucidates the relationship between identity and feedback processes and uncovers psychological distance from the social issue as a new construct in social venturing.
AB - This study advances understanding of interpersonal feedback seeking as a relational micro-foundational process whereby social entrepreneurs proactively involve others in venturing and engage in sensemaking when this fails. Our inductive analysis of 82 interviews with 36 social entrepreneurs reveals the agency in and the plurality and precariousness of feedback seeking by identifying three distinct feedback-seeking trajectories. Feedback seeking is an identity-driven process whereby how and why social entrepreneurs seek feedback depends on their psychological closeness to the targeted social issue. Our study elucidates the relationship between identity and feedback processes and uncovers psychological distance from the social issue as a new construct in social venturing.
KW - Identity
KW - Image
KW - Interpersonal feedback seeking
KW - Psychological distance
KW - Social entrepreneurship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104941910&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902621000331?via%3Dihub
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106123
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104941910
SN - 0883-9026
VL - 36
JO - Journal of Business Venturing
JF - Journal of Business Venturing
IS - 4
M1 - 106123
ER -