Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how historical materialities might play a contemporary role in legitimation processes through the memorialization of history and its reproduction in the here-and-now of organizations and organizing. Design/methodology/approach: The authors...

While an increasing number of crowdfunding platforms, growing interest by the media, and government actions fuel the crowdfunding momentum worldwide, it remains unclear whether this new, technologically-enabled, funding model will become fully embraced by entrepreneurs as a viable alternative to...

Social media - computer-mediated tools of the web 2.0 generation that make it possible for anyone to create, circulate, share and exchange information in a variety of formats and with multiple communities - have become increasingly widespread in today's organizations. Social media have started...