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Two hearts that beat as one: Signals, narratives, and financing (less) novel ventures via equity crowdfunding

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Financial resource acquisition is crucial for ventures but hindered by uncertainty. While signaling mitigates this uncertainty, its effectiveness hinges on venture novelty and the narratives used to clarify embedded information. Adopting a configurational lens, we examine the interplay among novelty, signals, and narratives in
Jiahe Wang, Lien Denoo, Joris Knoben
wiley   +1 more source

The structuring of the metaverse through the info-noospheric optics

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
The structuring of the virtual universe is considered in the context of the formation of the global information space as the separation of a part of the noosphere. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is based on the noospheric theory of
Aleksandr A. Yefanov
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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
wiley   +1 more source

New Economic Analysis of Law: Beyond Technocracy and Market Design [PDF]

, 2018
This special issue on New Economic Analysis of Law features illuminating syntheses of social science and law. What would law and economics look like if macroeconomics were a concern of scholars now focused entirely on microeconomics?
Pasquale, Frank A.
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“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Piketty’s Capital. The Revival of Political Philosophy, Political Economy and Social Sciences in the Light of the Declaration of Human and Citizens’ Rights in the French Revolution of 1789

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2016
Piketty’s Capital in Twenty-First Century has posed a totally new platform for the discussion of the economy and capitalism. Piketty has reinvented the classical political economy founded by Adam Smith in his 1776 Wealth of Nations. Piketty has shown via
Øjvind Larsen
doaj  

Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by the activities of users. This dynamic set of relations is most evident during moments of disruption, in which platform politics and values come under debate.
Sean Ward, Jenny L. Davis, Adrian Mackenzie, Paul K. Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Venture Capital Practices in Saudi Arabia: The Views of Investors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how venture capital (VC) investors in Saudi Arabia evaluate, negotiate, and support entrepreneurial ventures in a rapidly developing yet institutionally young setting. Drawing on 21 semi‐structured interviews with 24 investors, it offers rare insight into VC practices in the Middle East.
Tibah al‐Harbi, Renzo Cordina, David M. Power   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings, David Weir, Sa'ad Ali, Sven Horak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source