Hybrid Vigor: Securing Venture Capital by Spanning Categories in Nanotechnology

By Tyler Wry, Michael Lounsbury, P. Devereaux Jennings. 2014

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Optimal distinctiveness: Broadening the interface between institutional theory and strategic management (2017, background): “For instance, Wry, Lounsbury, and Jennings (2014) documented how nanotechnology start-ups were able to secure venture capital financing by successfully combining scientific and business practices.”
Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, methodology): “An organizational category is defined as the mutual understanding between external audiences and similar member organizations on the symbolic and material resources that constitute the basis for membership (Vergne and Wry, 2014).”
Converging Winds: Logic Hybridization in the Colorado Wind Energy Field (2016, unknown): “Thus, we expand the extant literature on hybrid organizations that has largely focused on organizational level outcomes (e.g., Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Mars & Lounsbury, 2009; Pache & Santos, 2013; Wry et al., 2014).”
Where Do Market Categories Come From and How? Distinguishing Category Creation From Category Emergence (2017, unknown): “In particular, a main focus of attention is the presence, under the same roof, of categories with opposed valence, which leads to the question of the consequences of such a situation for the performance, reputation, or strategic actions of such firms (e.g., Vergne, 2012; Wry et al., 2014).”
Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and Effective Business-model Design (2019, background): “Recent work suggests that the locus of optimal distinctiveness may shift over time and across stakeholders (Wry, Lounsbury, and Jennings, 2014; Zhao et al., 2017).”
Funding Financial Inclusion: Institutional Logics and the Contextual Contingency of Funding for Microfinance Organizations (2016, background): “Another potential issue is that, while there is precedent for analyzing overall investment levels in both the management (e.g., Pahnke et al., 2015; Wry et al., 2014) and microfinance literatures (Gonzalez, 2010; Sapundzhieva, 2011), there are other potential ways to measure funding.”
Category Spanning, Evaluation, and Performance: Revised Theory and Test on the Corporate Law Market (2016, unknown): “Some of them are perceived as making more sense than others (Leung, 2014; Phillips et al., 2013; Ruef & Patterson, 2009;Wry et al., 2014), in particular due to their inclusiveness (Kennedyet al.”
What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption (2016, background): “…cultural boundaries, but not to divergent perceptions and preferences (Kennedy 2008; Phillips and Zuckerman 2001; Rao, Monin, and Durand 2005; Smith 2011; Wry, Lounsbury, and Jennings 2013).4 Here we have the reverse picture: heterogeneous producers and products facing homogeneous audiences.”