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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

Hyperbole, the comical, and grotesque in Yu. Buida’s collection of short stories The Prussian Bride

open access: yesСлово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2013
The connection between grotesque and myth is shown in the context of Yu. Buida’s collection of short stories The Prussian Bride. The author identifies the thematic areas of the intersection between grotesque, hyperbole, and the comical and analyses the ...
Dmitrovskaya M., Degtyarenko K.
doaj  

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

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

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

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