Stakeholder Perceptions of Age and Other Dimensions of Newness

By Young Rok Choi, Dean A. Shepherd. 2005

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, background): “…Baker, & Shepherd, 2010), new ventures are asserted to lack a track record of past performance on which to base claims of legitimacy, reliability, and accountability (Choi & Shepherd, 2005; Delmar & Shane, 2004) and to be perceived as competent, effective, and worthy (Zimmerman & Zeitz, 2002).”
Filling the Entrepreneurial Orientation–Performance Gap: The Mediating Effects of Exploratory and Exploitative Innovations (2014, background): “…those are processes, procedures, and structures that are inadequate to run the current business efficiently, without jeopardizing the assets of newness (Choi & Shepherd, 2005) such as superior affective congruence, flexibility, and the ability to effectively pursue new business opportunities.”
The age-effect of financial indicators as buffers against the liability of newness ☆ (2010, background): “For these new firms, the important issue is gaining legitimacy relative to the firms with which it competes (Choi and Shepherd, 2005).”
Family Firm Reputation and Humanization: Consumers and the Trust Advantage of Family Firms Under Different Conditions of Brand Familiarity (2018, background): “These perceptions of benevolence have important consequences as, for example, stakeholders are more willing to commit resources if they perceive a company to be benevolent (Choi & Shepherd, 2005; Kramer, 1999; Whitener, Brodt, Korsgaard, & Werner, 1998).”
Building trust—Evidence from Vietnamese entrepreneurs (2009, background): “In the end, it is of the entrepreneurs' interests to take action to improve stakeholders' perceptions of (and trust in) their businesses (Choi and Shepherd, 2005).”
When should entrepreneurs expedite or delay opportunity exploitation (2008, background): “Since new ventures vary in the speed of building their capabilities (Baron et al., 1999; Choi and Shepherd, 2005), a consideration of organizational capabilities and their resulting ignorance reduction would further improve our understanding of the “right” exploitation time.”
Stakeholder Theory: Reviewing a Theory That Moves Us (2008, background): “Our second generic recommendation is to encourage more fine-grained qualitative narratives (Choi & Shepard, 2005; Dunham, Freeman, & Liedtka, 2006; Freeman & McVea, 2001; Harrison & Freeman, 1999).”
Spotlight on Age‐Diversity Climate: The Impact of Age‐Inclusive HR Practices on Firm‐Level Outcomes (2013, background): “Seventh, following other research that proposes that older organizations are more productive on average (Choi & Shepherd, 2005), we controlled for the companies' age by asking for the company's founding year.”
The Influence of Entrepreneurs’ Credentials and Impression Management Behaviors on Perceptions of New Venture Legitimacy (2012, background): “A recent review of the literature identified 18 types of legitimacy (for a review, see Bitektine, 2011), and, of these, cognitive legitimacy is widely perceived as the most important that NVs must obtain (Choi & Shepherd, 2005; Suchman, 1995).”
Deciding to Persist: Adversity, Values, and Entrepreneurs’ Decision Policies (2013, methodology): “Conjoint analysis has been used in hundreds of decision-making studies across a variety of disciplines (Green, Krieger, & Wind, 2001), including entrepreneurship (Bruns, Holland, Shepherd, & Wiklund, 2008; Choi & Shepherd, 2005; Haynie, Shepherd, & McMullen, 2009).”
Preparedness and Cognitive Legitimacy as Antecedents of New Venture Funding in Televised Business Pitches (2012, background): “However, we agree with those scholars (e.g., Choi & Shepherd, 2005) who feel strongly that the construct of cognitive legitimacy holds special promise for the field of entrepreneurship.”
Entrepreneurs’ decision making under different levels of uncertainty: the role of emotions (2013, result): “75, again similar to published work (Choi and Shepherd, 2005).”
The Impact of Role Identities on Entrepreneurs’ Evaluation and Selection of Opportunities (2017, unknown): “Our sample of 25 founders compares favorably with prior verbal protocol research (e.g., Choi & Shepherd, 2005: 11 individuals; Grégoire, Barr, & Shepherd, 2010: 9 entrepreneurs; Melone, 1994: 8 executives; Sarasvathy, Simon, & Lave, 1998: 4 bankers and 4 entrepreneurs).”