A New Venture's Cognitive Legitimacy: An Assessment by Customers

By Dean A. Shepherd, Andrew Zacharakis. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance in New Ventures and Established Firms (2011, background): “EO can recognize opportunities, facilitate innovation (Atuahene-Gima and Ko 2001), and bear the high risks of new ventures (Shepherd and Zacharakis 2003).”
Exploring entrepreneurial legitimacy in reward-based crowdfunding (2014, background): “Shepherd and Zacharakis (2003) illustrate that organisational legitimacy can be built by providing additional information of the organisation and management team of the entrepreneurial venture.”
Beyond Simple Utility: Incentive Design and Trade–Offs for Corporate Employee–Entrepreneurs (2010, result): “…decisions for each individual in the analysis follows the model of prior studies (Brundin et al., 2008; McMullen & Shepherd, 2006; Shepherd, 1999b; Shepherd & Zacharakis, 1999, 2003) and serve to maximize the reliability of the results by including the slight differences between the responses to…”
Preparedness and Cognitive Legitimacy as Antecedents of New Venture Funding in Televised Business Pitches (2012, methodology): ““From the cognitive perspective of legitimacy, organizations are legitimate when they are understandable (i.e., there is greater awareness and therefore less uncertainty involved with the organization) rather than considering when they are desirable” (Shepherd & Zacharakis, 2003, p. 151).”
The Influence of Entrepreneurs’ Credentials and Impression Management Behaviors on Perceptions of New Venture Legitimacy (2012, background): “Although research into what cues stakeholders use to make decisions is well developed (e.g., Shepherd & Zacharakis, 2003; Tyebjee & Bruno, 1984), we know much less about specific behaviors that entrepreneurs can employ to positively influence stakeholders’ perceptions and subsequent…”
Getting bank financing: A study of Vietnamese private firms (2006, background): “Thus, obtaining legitimacy is central to the process of survival of new firms (Hannan and Freeman, 1994; Shepherd and Zacbarakis, 2003 ).”
The paradox of new venture legitimation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem (2017, background): “…ecosystem is analogous to a viral and self-reinforcing process in that as more and more actors beyond an entrepreneurial ecosystem perceive a venture as legitimate, so other connected actors assume the venture is appropriate and begin to take it for granted (Shepherd & Zacharakis, 2003).”
Framing the Game: Assessing the Impact of Cultural Representations on Consumer Perceptions of Legitimacy (2013, unknown): “Then, on the individual level, the causal mechanism for these shifts is investigated in an experimental setting using the Implicit Association Test (IAT).”