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Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
- Tim Weiss
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  Tim Weiss
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0682-5287
  Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Nevena Radoynovska
  Nevena Radoynovska
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3780-2018
  Strategy and Organization Department, Emlyon Business School, F-69007 Lyon, France
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Published Online:June 29, 2026
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With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud between ...
Specialized Roles and Task Allocation in Organizations
- Jillian Chown
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  Jillian Chown
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9965-4749
  Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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- Carlos Inoue
  Carlos Inoue
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5295-5912
  Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820
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Published Online:June 29, 2026
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Organizations often struggle to deploy specialized expertise where it creates the most value. We argue that specialized roles help address this challenge by codifying expertise into formal positions that function as allocative infrastructure, channeling ...
Bottoms Up: Micro Entry Nonmarket Strategies to Change State Policy
- Eppa Rixey
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  Eppa Rixey
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  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8424-9206
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Economic Sociology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02142-1347, United States
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Published Online:June 29, 2026
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How do small firms overcome regulatory constraints despite opposition from entrenched interests? Micro entry strategies enable small firms to compete with larger incumbents in markets, but exploration of such strategies in nonmarket arenas is limited. ...
Moving Beyond the MVP in Hyper-Constrained Contexts: The Generative Power of Constraints Work
- Hila Lifshitz
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  Hila Lifshitz
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  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3461-003X
  University of Warwick, Information systems management, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Steven Randazzo
  Steven Randazzo
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  Harvard University, Lab for Innovation Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Olivia Seunghae Jung
  Olivia Seunghae Jung
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  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-6022
  Emory University, Health Policy and Management, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322-1007, United States
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Published Online:June 26, 2026
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In a world of increasingly numerous and contradictory constraints, this study reveals how individuals can navigate hyper-constrained contexts to rapidly develop new deployable products. We draw on an in-depth field study of seven projects developing ...
Technology (Non)Emergence: How System Interdependencies Among Activities by Heterogeneous Actors Shaped Alternative Solar Technology Trajectories
- Mara Guerra
  Mara Guerra
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3706-8028
  Bayes Business School, City St. George’s, University of London, London EC1Y 8TZ, United Kingdom
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- Rajshree Agarwal
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  Rajshree Agarwal
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7272-314X
  Department of Management and Organization, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
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Published Online:June 23, 2026
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We examine industry and technology (non)emergence by integrating actor-centric and systems perspective literature streams. We use historical methods to analyze rich data tracking investments by actors spanning private, public, and academic sectors in the ...

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