We explore a key tension between certification and entrepreneurial entry. On the one hand,
more stringent certifications may provide greater legitimacy. On the other hand, market entry …

An implicit assumption in institutional theory is that more certifications improve a venture's
likelihood for success. However, under certain conditions, we argue more certifications may …

Prevailing theory argues that more certifications increase performance. However, emerging
empirical evidence implies that obtaining more certifications may actually decrease …

We draw on institutional theory to study a common type of new venture creation that has
been neglected in the literature: the translation of an existing organizational form from a …

Are noncompulsory certifications persistently beneficial for incumbent firms across
responsive subjects and across time in emerging institutions, given that they are likely to be …

In this paper, we study the transition from planned venture to operational start-up in the
emergent independent power sector. Planned ventures face tremendous obstacles in …

New organizations are always vulnerable to the liabilities of newness, but such pressures
are especially severe when an industry is in its formative years. We focus on one set of …

How do we reconcile misalignments between a system's existing normative and cognitive
elements and novel regulatory change? Prior work either largely focuses only on regulatory …

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 …

The mismatch between Stinchcombe's original propositions regarding “the liability of
newness” and subsequent attempts to test those propositions suggests to us that the form …