The Social Construction of Legitimacy Through Signaling Social Capital: Exploring the Conditional Value of Alliances and Underwriters at IPO

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 569-601

  Khoury, Theodore A ^a   Junkunc, Marc ^b   Deeds, David L ^c  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

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EID: 84876434289     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/etap.12030     Document Type: Article

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