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Framing novelty in crowdfunding: Which words win support, where, and at what stakes
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We examine how promotional language (“hype”) in reward‐based crowdfunding is associated with campaign success, and whether those associations vary across sector contexts and with campaign execution burden. Using dictionary‐based text measures from 635 U.S. Kickstarter campaigns across five sectors, we distinguish three novelty‐
Agnieszka Kwapisz
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Prior studies have often conceptualized entrepreneurial experimentation as an activity over which founders exert a high amount of discretion in decision‐making. However, the locus of control over experimentation programs is dynamic, shifting with varying external stakeholder influence and venture growth. This paper proposes an
Hyeonsuh Lee +2 more
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Bias in, symbolic compliance out? GPT's reliance on gender and race in strategic evaluations
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research summary Organizations are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to support strategic evaluations. We examine whether and how these systems rely on gender and race. We asked GPT to evaluate identical startup pitches varying only the founder's name, shaping gender and race perceptions.
Tristan L. Botelho, Qingyang (Iris) Wang
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We examine the effects of category erraticism, that is, having moved across socio‐cognitively distant industry categories over time, on status mobility. We argue that it is not the breadth of the categories that a firm spans or the overall distance among those categories, but whether its movement across categories forms a ...
Danyang Li, Michael Jensen
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic Dialogue
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) is a participatory problem structuring methodology grounded in Structured Dialogic Design Science. It was created to help diverse stakeholders co‐construct influence maps that reveal leverage points and support coordinated action.
Yiannis Laouris, Gerald Midgley
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“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
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Do Asian Companies Bid Higher in Cross‐Border M&A? A Moderating Effect Analysis
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether Asian companies pay higher premiums in cross‐border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and identifies the institutional factors driving this behavior. Grounded in the concept of Asian institutional logic—characterized by state coordination, relational governance, and long‐term strategic orientation—we argue that these ...
Conrado Diego García‐Gómez +3 more
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Counterfactuals: Does bureaucracy produce unfair workplaces?
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Bureaucracy is often used as a metaphor for organisations that place machine‐like functioning above human needs. In this paper, a mixed‐methods approach is used to investigate the relationship between bureaucracy and fairness in public administration.
Clemens Striebing +2 more
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