Describes the process of building theories from case studies and examines the strengths and weaknesses of this process. The case study research strategy is one in which the goal is to understand the dynamics present within an individual environment. The steps identified for building theory...

This article, together with a companion video, provides a synthesized summary of a Showcase Symposium held at the 2016 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in which prominent scholars—Denny Gioia, Kathy Eisenhardt, Ann Langley and Kevin Corley—discussed different approaches to theory...

Competition and cooperation are fundamental to strategy, and often closely intertwined. But how firms successfully navigate both competition and cooperation over time, particularly in dynamic industries, is not clear. Via an in-depth multiple-case study of five firms in the US residential solar...

Drawing on institutional theory, we examine how the institutional logics — taken-for granted norms, structures, and practices — of different types of funding partners influence young firms and their search for innovations. We test our hypotheses in a longitudinal study of a complete...

We examine the role that changes to the institutional environment play in the formation, exit, and performance of ventures. We do so by taking advantage of two natural experiments in Japan that relates to the exit of a venture: successful IPO, and failure in bankruptcy. In our first study, we...

Research Summary: Governments in emerging economies often use institutional intermediaries to promote entrepreneurship, and bridge the void between ventures and public funding. While prior literature describes what institutional intermediaries do, it leaves open how intermediaries support...