Open AccessUnderstanding Israeli Start-Up Founders in the context of “Tikkun Olam”
Author(s) -
Tova Persoff
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kultura, społeczeństwo, edukacja/culture, society, education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-2717
pISSN - 2300-0422
DOI - 10.14746/kse.2021.20.4
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , identity (music) , hebrew , interpretation (philosophy) , genealogy , sociology , history , classics , aesthetics , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
Context impacts a start-up founder’s behavior, activities and choices. This study uses the three founder identities introduced by Fauchart and Gruber (2011) Darwinian, communitarian and missionary to classify Israeli start-up founders who have created diverse products. It presents an innovative context-based interpretation of Tikkun Olam – which in Hebrew means ‘making the world a better place’ as a possible explanation for the relatively large number of Israeli start-up founders who were found to have a hybrid identity.