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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

Hatching and fledging? A meta‐analysis of the performance effects of business incubators

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Business incubators are among the most widely implemented instruments to foster entrepreneurship. Yet empirical evidence on their effectiveness remains fragmented and often contradictory. Limited research systematically compares how different types of incubators influence multiple venture performance outcomes, including ...
Jorge‐Vinicio Murillo‐Rojas, Jan Brinckmann, Marc van Essen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimentation on a leash: How stakeholder influence shapes entrepreneurial experimentation across the venture lifecycle

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, Gianluigi Viscusi, Christopher L. Tucci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When stakeholders are imposed: Non‐chosen stakeholder orientation and venture performance

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Extending stakeholder theory into the entrepreneurship context, we examine the performance implications of externally imposed stakeholder orientation, which we conceptualize as non‐chosen stakeholder orientation. Given the resource constraints, short time horizons, and high levels of uncertainty that characterize ventures, we ...
Myeongho David Park, Per L. Bylund, Eunkwang Seo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decomposing venture evaluation: Learning about belief formation

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Evaluating early‐stage ventures is difficult because observable signals of future quality are weak and noisy. How closely are evaluators' assessments related to venture quality, and do their subjective judgments add to the information already available about a venture?
Thomas Åstebro, Andrew Funck, Francesco Giordano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capturing Land for Elephant Corridors in South India through the Conservation-Agrarian Squeeze. [PDF]

Environ Manage
Siddhartha A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Balancing coherence and resonance through linguistic framing: A longitudinal study of German biotechnology ventures' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Research suggests that ventures benefit from framing to gain audience support, yet how they utilize framing when exogenous shocks redirect attention remains unclear. Drawing on a longitudinal multiple‐case study of six biotechnology ventures following the COVID‐19 pandemic, we show how ventures balance coherence and resonance ...
Niklas Dreymann, Indre Maurer
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Drifting to the top? The effects of category erraticism on status mobility in the U.S. venture capital industry

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
wiley   +1 more source