Based on a four-year field study of six new ventures, we investigate whether and how founders of new firms engaged in affective sensegiving with diverse stakeholders; namely investors, board members, customers and employees. Affective sensegiving refers to founders' integrating affect in their...

Based on the findings from a three-year field study of a large firm undergoing strategic change, I build theory by describing how recipient employees emotionally responded to executives' actions. Emotional filtering is defined as change recipients' emotionally charged interpretations of agents'...