LEGITIMATE DISTINCTIVENESS AND THE ENTREPRENEURIAL IDENTITY: INFLUENCE ON INVESTOR JUDGMENTS OF NEW VENTURE PLAUSIBILITY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Navis, Chad; Glynn, Mary Ann
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Boston College
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2011.61031809
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 479-499
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY; social identity; Isomorphism; CAPITALISTS; institutions; emergence; survival; industry; stories; MODEL

摘要

We theorize about how the entrepreneurial identity, which we define as the constellation of claims around the founder, new venture, and market opportunity as to who we are and what we do, serves as a touchstone for investor judgments about new venture plausibility. We propose that entrepreneurial identities are judged favorably when they are legitimately distinctive, and that such judgments are influenced by market context and are mediated by identity narratives that provide institutional primes and equivocal cues in investor sensemaking.