Sensegiving in entrepreneurial contexts: The use of metaphors in speech and gesture to gain and sustain support for novel business ventures

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 213-241

  Cornelissen, Joep P ^a   Clarke, Jean S ^a   Cienki, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Gesture; Metaphor; Sensegiving; speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859337465     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242610364427     Document Type: Article

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