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How ventures maintain stakeholder support amidst operational legitimacy threats

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We explore how ventures mitigate operational legitimacy threats—threats that originate within the venture and challenge claims relating to the venture's ability to deliver on its promised value proposition. Through an inductive study of four ventures working to deliver their promised products following successful crowdfunding ...
Alex Murray, Susan Cohen, Farhan Iqbal
wiley   +1 more source

Online Versus Face‐to‐Face Multiparty Interactions: Effects on Emergent System Dynamics and Integrative Outcomes

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multiparty systems address wicked problems by bringing together stakeholders with diverse and sometimes competing interests. Although previous research has emphasized the role of expected positive interdependence in driving system‐level dynamics and reaching integrative negotiations, the impact of the communication environment (online versus ...
Elena Cristina Manole   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fantasy

open access: yes, 2012
https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/fantasy/Article nommé « Fantasy » de l'encyclopédie en ligne "Encyclopedia Universalis"
Besson, Anne
core   +1 more source

An Outline of a Theory of Play

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

A new measure to assess creative and imaginative fantasy

open access: yes, 2016
The objective of this study is the construction and validation of a comprehensive self-report measure of fantasy. Unlike previous measures of fantasy, which focus on psychopathology, the current questionnaire conceives of fantasy as a trait with a ...
Weibel, David   +2 more
core  

Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

The Hidden Hallyu Emerged: Exploring the Key Motives of Reading Adapted K‐Webtoons of South Korea

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate why global fans read Korean webtoons (K‐webtoons) and how their motivations vary across different genres. Previous studies have approached the Korean Wave (Hallyu) from a national perspective, emphasizing its influence and primarily discussing K‐pop and K‐drama.
Hoseok Gwak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘You're not a good vet if things go wrong’: The dark side of veterinary identities

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Vets, like other professionals, strive for somewhat fantasised desired occupational identities, but the dichotomic dark side of feared identities—that is, negative constructions of oneself as flawed, failed or failing—remains underexplored. This paper reviews the identity processes associated with feared identities.
Sarah Page‐Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating large mammalian herbivores into Dynamic Global Vegetation Models: Status and next steps

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Zoogeochemistry, the study of how animals influence elemental cycling within ecosystems, bridges the fields of zoology, ecology and biogeochemistry. Yet, most terrestrial ecosystem models, especially Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), remain largely plant‐centric
Yue Cheng   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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