The social construction of reputation: Certification contests, legitimation, and the survival of organizations in the American automobile industry: 1895–1912

H Rao - Strategic management journal, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Despite widespread agreement among organizational researchers that intangible resources
underlie performance differences among organizations, little empirical evidence exists in the …

Legitimation endeavors: Impression management strategies used by an organization in crisis

MW Allen, RH Caillouet - Communications Monographs, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
The impression management strategies embedded in the external discourse of an
organization in crisis are identified and a typology of impression management strategies …

Organizational niches and the dynamics of organizational founding

JAC Baum, JV Singh - Organization Science, 1994 - pubsonline.informs.org
In this paper we argue that patterns of organizational niche overlap and nonoverlap
influence the organizational niches in which entrepreneurs create organizations …

The interface and convergence of the strategic management and organizational environment domains

AC Bluedorn, RA Johnson… - Journal of …, 1994 - journals.sagepub.com
Extending Bluedorn's (1993) review of environmental contingency theory, we examine the
strategic management research conducted from 1980-1993 that explicitly deals with the …

Changing institutional rules: The evolution of corporate philanthropy, 1883-1953

M Sharfman - Business & Society, 1994 - journals.sagepub.com
Corporate philanthropy is considered to be an integral part of corporate social performance;
however, this was not always the case. At one time, the use of corporate funds for …

Technology-based firms: Critical aspects of their early development

M Klofsten - Journal of enterprising culture, 1994 - World Scientific
The founding and early development of a firm are crucial events. Despite this fact, most
research is aimed at problems existing in firms that are established and have passed the …

The effects of liabilities of age and size on autonomous sub-units of established firms in the steel distribution industry

S Venkataraman, MB Low - Journal of business venturing, 1994 - Elsevier
This study investigates the effects of organizational sub-unit age and size on three
dimensions of customer relationships: response satisfaction, service-depth satisfaction, and …

Sociopolitical consequences of organizational expression

D Finet - Journal of Communication, 1994 - academic.oup.com
This paper reports on a content analysis of newspaper accounts of the sociopolitical
opposition encountered by the head of a large state government agency who was forced to …

Organizational foundations and closures in a regulated environment: Swedish commercial banks 1831–1990

R Bergström, L Engwall, E Wallerstedt - Scandinavian Journal of …, 1994 - Elsevier
This study analyses the foundations and closures of the total population of Swedish
commercial banks, 1831–1990. With reference to the comparatively rigid control of entries …

[图书][B] Legitimation, population density, and founding rates: The institutionalization of commercial biotechnology in the United States, 1971--1989

RC Hybels - 1994 - search.proquest.com
This thesis investigates how the evolution of commercial biotechnology in the US has been
shaped by the business press. Through content analysis of articles about biotechnology, I …