Firms’ top decision makers cannot possibly know what decisions to make. Rather, decision makers must interpret their situations and make the best possible decision based upon their interpretation of their situations. In this dissertation, I examine decision-makers’ goal orientations as...

A widely held belief is that resource constraints and industry conditions posesevere threats to the performance of entrepreneurial firms. While previous research linksresources controlled by these firms to different performance outcomes, extant researchon organizational performance often assumes...

Firms form marketing and technology alliances to access other firms’ resources,and these alliances act as signals to investors. Investors use these signals to adjustexpectations about new venture performance prospects, but our understanding ofinvestor responses is incomplete because limited...