Equity financing in entrepreneurship primarily includes venture capital, corporate venture
capital, angel investment, crowdfunding, and accelerators. We take stock of venture …

Ecosystems are formed by organisations that jointly create a value proposition that a single
firm could not create in isolation. To deliver this value proposition, the partners need a focal …

Legitimacy has emerged as a pivotal but often confusing construct in management theory.
Defined as a “generalized perception or assumption that the actions of an entity are …

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 …

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

The case study as a key research method has often been criticized for generating results
that are less generalizable than those of large‐sample, quantitative methods. This paper …

This study reviews research on the social, behavioral, and cognitive influences on CEOs, top
management teams (TMTs), and the CEO-TMT interface during strategic decision making …

I develop a model linking specific microinteraction dynamics between members of different
institutional fields and the genesis of new practices. The model centers on the concept of …

Research on how new ventures (NV s) achieve legitimacy is fragmented and rests on taken‐
for‐granted assumptions that require problematization. Following a systematic literature …

Different forms of stakeholder pressures drive different environmental strategies in
organizations. This article differentiates between internal and external normative …