Cultural entrepreneurship: stories, legitimacy, and the acquisition of resources

This paper explores the influence of acquisition costs on the choice between the takeover and joint venture modes of obtaining the resources required for diversifying expansion. It uses the conditions created by privatisation in the UK utility…

New venture, endogenous vigour of the country's economic development, has been the focus of the study researchers. However, new venture's mortality is much higher than old enterprises, one important reason of which is the lack of organizational…

This paper analyzes a multidimensional model of organizational legitimacy, competencies, and resources in order to develop the linkage between institutional and resource-based perspectives by systematically detailing relationships among these…

Rch focuses on the reasons behind the constitution of the board of directors. We start with two theoretical positions: the social capital theory, stating that people construct social networks that are more or less efficient depending on their…

In this article, we examine how the concept of a 'refugee' is discursively constituted within the UK refugee system. We examine the actions and interactions of four organizations in particular: the British government, the Refugee Legal Centre, the…

The study of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has become an integral part of the literature. Fueled by an interest in revitalizing established companies and renewing their ability to compete in a dynamic and global economy, this research has sought…

This study focuses on the following questions: (i) whether reductions in root:shoot ratio have a cost in terms of nutrient balance of the plant, and (ii) whether changes in resource-allocation patterns are proportional among different resources. Our…

For more than a decade, academic libraries have been wrestling with the thorny issue of managing the acquisition of electronic resources. Where are we in the continuum from paper lists to vendor-designed management systems? This paper takes a look…

Based on annotated audiovisual records of weekly half-hour observations, six stages (from 9 to 23 months) are identified in one child's acquisition of the word shoe, from hearing the word in association with the object to using the word…

This review piece looks at how children acquire various elements of linguistic meaning. It considers issues in the acquisition of word meaning, argument structure, tense and aspect, and quantification and scope. For each of these areas, it considers…