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Legitimation of New Ventures: A Review and Research Programme
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Research on how new ventures (NV s) achieve legitimacy is fragmented and rests on taken‐for‐granted assumptions that require problematization. Following a systematic literature review, I identify five distinct perspectives on NV legitimation: an institutional perspective, a cultural entrepreneurship perspective, an ecological perspective, an impression management perspective, and a social movement perspective. After comparing and contrasting these perspectives, I synthesize them into a generative and integrative typology. Based on this typology, I develop a new research programme. The programme widens the extant scholarship agenda by challenging its shared assumptions and contributes to further integration of the literature by building bridges between perspectives.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Überbacher, F.
- Venue
- Journal of Management Studies
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-03-31
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 667-698
- ISSN
- 0022-2380 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6486
- OpenAlex
- W1845650982
- Cited by
- 321
- References
- 135
- FWCI
- 44.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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