Legitimating first: organizing activities and the survival of new ventures

By Frédéric Delmar, Scott A. Shane. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Power law distributions in entrepreneurship: : Implications for theory and research (2015, methodology): “22 resources commonly measured in institutional theory and population ecology studies of density dependence (Aldrich and Ruef, 2006; Delmar and Shane, 2004).”
Nascent Entrepreneurs and Venture Emergence: Opportunity Confidence, Human Capital, and Early Planning (2010, background): “But interestingly, its effect on new venture survival has been consistently lacking (Bosma et al., 2004; Bruderl et al., 1992; Delmar and Shane, 2003, 2004) and there have been no effects on © Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009 the timing of new product introduction (Schoonhoven et al., 1990) and new…”
The resource dynamics of international new venture networks (2007, background): “Third, this study did not specifically link resource dynamics to INV performance on the assumption that in the early part of the new venture’s life, performance is best represented by the fact that the INV has not disbanded ( Delmar and Shane, 2004 ).”
The paradox of new venture legitimation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem (2017, background): “…legitimation of new ventures partially explains many positive entrepreneurial outcomes including organizational emergence (Tornikoski & Newbert, 2007), venture survival (Delmar & Shane, 2004; Sine et al. 2007), access to venture capital (Zott & Huy, 2007) and firm valuation (Martens et al., 2007).”
Exploring entrepreneurial legitimacy in reward-based crowdfunding (2014, background): “Firms may institutionalise entrepreneurial narrative into artefacts or market-facing documents to communicate internally generated legitimacy (Aldrich and Fiol 1994; Delmar and Shane 2004).”
Get It Together! Synergistic Effects of Causal and Effectual Decision-Making Logics on Venture Performance (2018, background): “Legitimacy is vital for new ventures, as it increases their chances of surviving the early stages of their life cycles by facilitating entrepreneurial resource acquisition (Delmar & Shane, 2004; Fisher, Kotha, & Lahiri, 2016).”
What do business models do? Narratives, calculation and market exploration (2009, neutral): “In another paper, the authors draw on institutional theory to explore the legitimization role of business plans which leads to a decrease in the hazard of disbanding for new ventures (Delmar and Shane, 2004).”
What do we really mean when we talk about ‘exit’? A critical review of research on entrepreneurial exit (2014, neutral): “Controlling for, or otherwise including, performance measures in models of exit is pivotal; otherwise, these models may be biased by omitting arguably the most important variable in explaining why and when exit is executed, and the outcome of the exit (Delmar and Shane, 2004).”
“What’s Past Is Prologue” (2015, background): “Organizations may also come to reflect more surface-level manifestations of their imprinters’ mark through the replication or reactive creation of activities and routines (Beckman, 2006; Delmar & Shane, 2004; Madsen & Walker, 2007).”