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Title
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A RELATIONAL EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ACQUISITION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS
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Author
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Medaugh, Melissa
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Entrepreneurship
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Description
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Social networks provide entrepreneurs with a cost-effective way to acquire resources from people they know personally. In the current research, I develop and test a relational model of resource acquisition, which demonstrates the predictive role o...
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Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
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Author
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Medaugh, Melissa
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
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Description
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To understand why some innovation-driven portfolio firms benefit more from venture capital (VC) funding than others, I explore the salient phenomenon of founder CEO exit. Integrating institutional logics and psychological contracts theories, I pro...