Pump up the volume: The effects of celebrity and status on newly public firms' access to resources

Timothy D. Hubbard, Timothy G. Pollock, Michael D. Pfarrer, Violina P. Rindova

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Abstract

We theorize that celebrity and status serve as both signals and interpretative frames, having differential effects on firms' access to resources. We find that status functions primarily as a signal, while celebrity functions primarily as an interpretive frame affecting how status and other signals are interpreted by potential alliance partners.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)138-143
Number of pages6
JournalAcademy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016 - Anaheim, United States
Duration: Aug 5 2016Aug 9 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Management Information Systems
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Industrial relations

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