Getting off to a good start: The effects of upper Echelon affiliations on underwriter prestige

Organization Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Higgins, Monica C ^a   Gulati, Ranjay ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Careers; Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering (IPO); Interorganizational Endorsements; Legitimacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038509933     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.14.2.244.15160     Document Type: Review

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