作者：Cappellaro, Giulia; Compagni, Amelia; Vaara, Eero
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Oxford
摘要：In spite of an increasing interest in ambiguity, our knowledge of how organizations maintain strategic ambiguity to protect themselves from public scrutiny is still in its infancy. Through an in-depth historical study of the Sicilian Mafia between 1963 and 2018, we develop a model of strategic ambiguity maintenance. We focus on three struggles between the Mafia and state representatives, and show how these struggles centered on different types of ambiguity: ambiguity as opacity, equivocality, ...
作者：Taeuscher, Karl; Bouncken, Ricarda; Pesch, Robin
作者单位：University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; University of Bayreuth; Newcastle University - UK
摘要：How do new ventures gain legitimacy and attract critical resources? An increasing body of cultural entrepreneurship research has highlighted an optimal distinctiveness trade-off: new ventures need to be distinctive from their peers to stand out, yet distinctiveness counteracts the attainment of organizational legitimacy. In this paper, we challenge the underlying assumption that distinctiveness necessarily counteracts the attainment of legitimacy and propose that distinctiveness can become a s...
