No news is bad news: Sensegiving activities, media attention, and venture capital funding of new technology organizations

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 865-888

  Petkova, Antoaneta P ^a   Rindova, Violina P ^b   Gupta, Anil K ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

High technology start ups; Legitimation; Market intermediation; Media attention; Sensegiving; Venture capital funding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877976645     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0759     Document Type: Article

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