作者:Hallen, Benjamin L.; Cohen, Susan L.; Bingham, Christopher B.
作者单位:University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要:Accelerators are entrepreneurial programs that attempt to help ventures learn, often utilizing extensive consultation with mentors, program directors, customers, guest speakers, alumni, and peers. Although accelerators have rapidly emerged as prominent players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and academics continue to raise questions about their efficacy. Moreover, relevant organizational literature suggests that, even if accelerators are associated with better v...
作者:Kasbekar, Chirag
作者单位:Australian National University
摘要:In the wake of exogenous institutional change, organizational populations often experience a legitimacy shock. As a new institutional logic becomes dominant, old symbols and practices are delegitimated and new ones legitimated. Old symbols and practices persist into the postshock period, however, forming an ecology of diverse cohorts and audience schemas, some divergent and others convergent with the new institutional logic. Because new organizations look to their rivals for knowledge of how t...
作者:Chambers, Cassandra R.; Baker, Wayne E.
作者单位:Bocconi University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要:Sustaining systems of cooperation in the face of strong self-interest is a subject of long-standing inquiry in the social sciences. Much of this work has focused on understanding the antecedents and outcomes associated with cooperation, noting that the inertial properties of a system should sustain cooperation over time. This paper shifts the focus toward examining how cooperation is maintained in the face of potentially disruptive forces. To advance theory, research, and practice on how to ma...