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Structuration and Learning in a Software Firm: A Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Case Study

Author(s): Rafael A. Gonzalez (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia), Marisela Vargas (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia), Florentino Malaver (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia)and Efraín Ortiz (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 18
EISBN13: 9781522583424

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Abstract

This case study presents the evolution of a software firm from startup into early internationalization. Building on a structuration theory, the case is framed within a conceptual model that illustrates the way skills and routines co-evolve both at the level of the founding entrepreneur (agency) and of the firm (structure). As such, this article contributes to an emergent structurational view of technology-based entrepreneurship. Such views places emphasis on learning both at the individual and collective level, in terms of software engineering, commercial, managerial and strategic capabilities. In addition, it supports a dynamic perspective of entrepreneurship in the software industry by covering not only the startup phase but also early growth and consolidation of the firm.

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