To acquire resources, new ventures need to be perceived as legitimate. For this to occur, a
venture must meet the expectations of various audiences with differing norms, standards …

Scholars' knowledge of the factors behind high-growth firms remains fragmented. This paper
provides a systematic review of the empirical literature concerning high-growth firms with a …

Organizations increasingly grapple with hybridity—the combination of identities, forms,
logics, or other core elements that would conventionally not go together. Drawing on in …

We examine how entrepreneurs manage new venture legitimacy judgments across diverse
audiences, so as to appear legitimate to the different audience groups that provide much …

Hybrid organizations that combine multiple organizational forms deviate from socially
legitimate templates for organizing, and thus experience unique organizing challenges. In …

Existing studies on the relationship between sustainability and crowdfunding are focused on
campaigns that provide rewards for backers. Equity crowdfunding is substantially different in …

In this research, we ask whether and how founders bring about business model innovation.
Grounded in an in-depth longitudinal multiple-case study, our analysis reveals three …

It is tempting to stick to traditional,'pure'images of professionalism—as the protected
treatment of complex cases—and to resist 'alien'intrusions, especially managerial …

The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet
the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of …

This article explores how hybrid organizations, which incorporate competing institutional
logics, internally manage the logics that they embody. Relying on an inductive comparative …