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dc.contributor.authorVanacker, T
dc.contributor.authorForbes, DP
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-04T15:06:30Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-01
dc.description.abstractPast research has established that new firms can enhance their attractiveness to prospective resource providers by affiliating with more reputable firms. But research on this process has yet to fully account for two critical realities underscored by recent research: (1) firms need to acquire resources from different groups of resource providers and (2) reputation is multidimensional. Drawing on the organizational reputation literature and on information processing theory, we propose that two groups of resource providers will respond differently to new firms' affiliations in accordance with differences in the groups' abilities to recognize and interpret reputation-related signals. We also propose that within a single group of resource providers, distinct characteristics of the affiliate will exert different influences. We test these propositions using longitudinal data from Belgian firms that affiliated with venture capital (VC) investors. Consistent with our predictions, we find that characteristics of a VC affiliate exert more influence on prospective financiers than on prospective employees. We further find that prospective financiers were more influenced by a VC's industry-specific experience than by its media prominence, whereas prospective employees were more influenced by a VC's media prominence than by its industryspecific experience. Taken together, the findings show that new firms' resource attraction trajectories are shaped by their affiliates in more complex ways than past research has accounted for.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipHercules Foundationen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch Foundation Flandersen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipRichard M. Schulze Family Foundationen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 27, pp. 1525 - 1547en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1287/orsc.2016.1090
dc.identifier.grantnumberAUGE/11/1en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumberFWO11/PDO/07en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/36251
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherINFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences)en_GB
dc.rightsCopyright © 2016, INFORMS
dc.subjectnew venturesen_GB
dc.subjectreputationen_GB
dc.subjectinformation processingen_GB
dc.subjectventure capitalen_GB
dc.subjectgrowthen_GB
dc.titleDisentangling the multiple effects of affiliate reputation on resource attraction in new firmsen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2019-03-04T15:06:30Z
dc.identifier.issn1047-7039
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalOrganization Scienceen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2016-01-01
rioxxterms.versionAMen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2016-01-01
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2019-03-04T15:01:47Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2019-03-04T15:06:31Z
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