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Skip to Search Results- 1Coraiola, Diego (Augustana Campus, Social Sciences)
- 1Foster, William (Augustana Campus, Social Sciences)
- 1Gellatly, Ian (Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Management)
- 1Joel Gehman
- 1Reay, Trish (Strategic Management and Organization)
- 1Sandberg, Jorgen (University of Queensland, School of Business)
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Fall 2019
This dissertation seeks to explore how entrepreneurs engage in prospective sensemaking and what role their arational beliefs play in it. I investigate the implications of prospective sensemaking on opportunity identification and risk management. While the current literature on entrepreneurship...
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How Do Constraints Affect Early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity? A Regulatory Focus Perspective
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Academics and practitioners tend to accept that people found new ventures only primarily for economic reasons, but is that always true? Emerging work in the field suggests other non-economic key motives that may drive entrepreneurial decisions. My dissertation explores one such critical...
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Three Studies on Cultural Entrepreneurship and Crowdfunding: We’ve Got Your Back, The Legitimacy Threshold Revisited, and Four Pathways Towards Cultural Resonance
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The primary goal of this doctoral thesis is to advance knowledge on the processes by which entrepreneurial actors gain and maintain the support of their audiences, such as resource providers. Theoretically, my research contributes to the growing body of work on the cultural dynamics of...