Newcomers often have trouble being taken seriously, or even noticed in the first place. This challenge, often referred to as the “liability of newness” (Freeman et al. 1983, Stinchcombe 1965), underscores the idea that to survive and thrive, new entrants must be recognized as legitimate by...

Throughout its three chapters, this dissertation examines a phenomenon that, although underappreciated and underinvestigated in the existing literature, should be of great interest to entrepreneurship scholars: angel investing in the United States. The resulting empirical patterns, both...

Social movement scholarship has increasingly sought to understand the relational dynamics of internal movement activity, from investigating the factors that enable movement coalitions to analyzing the trade-offs of organizational hybridity. We bring these and other related phenomena together...