Digital ventures are entrepreneurial young firms that introduce new digital artifacts that are "ever-incomplete" and "perpetually-in-the-making" onto the market. The study examines how six digital ventures continued to develop their digital market offerings post launch. Three key designing...

Based on a systematic analysis of the empirical literature, we synthesize and taxonomize scholarly knowledge on “institutional work.” We dissect the original purposes of institutional work – creating, maintaining, and disrupting – into a framework of the two dimensions: position towards...

We study how actors engage in institutional work to manage legitimacy by influencing media discourse in the face of discontinuous innovation. We content-analyze actor quotes reproduced in newspaper articles about the ‘sharing economy’ in the taxi and lodging industries to survey this aspect...