We examine the role of experimentation, planning, and structure in the evaluation of early-stage ventures. We hypothesize that the choice of coherent combinations – experimentation and informal structure or planning and formal structure – is associated with positive evaluations. First, using...

Novel external partnerships are valuable but risky, and scholars have examined the organization- and individual-level determinants of firms' decisions to pursue these new relationships. Yet, in organizations doing complex and knowledge-intensive work, decisions about interorganizational...

Given consistent evidence of its social benefits but questions about its market viability, this paper examines the conditions under which workplace democracy can be understood as a “real utopia”; a viable form of organization that is both economically productive and socially welfare...

Organizational scholars have long recognized the importance of corporate purpose, defined as a goal beyond profit maximization, meant to galvanizeworkers in the firm. Increasingly, however, companies are making claims about corporate purpose to external audiences, and we have little...