Stakeholder Perceptions of Age and Other Dimensions of Newness
通过口头报告和联合分析，研究利益相关者如何根据组织年龄及应对适应挑战的能力来决定是否支持该组织，发现组织越老、认知合法、情感一致、可靠、负责且战略灵活，越易获得支持。
Using verbal protocol and conjoint analyses, this study examines how stakeholders assess an organization in deciding whether to provide their support to it. The authors find that stakeholders’ support depends on their perceptions of an organization’s age and other dimensions of newness related to addressing management challenges of adaptation—the entrepreneurial problem, the engineering problem, and the administrative problem. Stakeholder support is more likely for those organizations that are old, cognitively legitimate, affectively congruent, reliable, accountable, and strategically flexible. The authors conclude with theoretical implications for scholars and practical implications for resource acquisition in various contexts of entrepreneurship.