Abstract Startup selection is an essential mechanism of how accelerators create value. Through in-depth case studies 10 in Turkey, our research explores the process accelerators. Our findings indicate that overcome their context’s extreme uncertainty by involving various actors and reducing information asymmetries for investors startups. Accelerators tend to select effortlessly coachable startu...

It is becoming increasingly difficult to make an impact with consumers. Brands of all sizes are struggling as traditional marketing efforts become more expensive and less effective. Toyota Motor Sales, USA has addressed this problem with an innovative new marketing approach Advocacy Marketing: Toyota’s secrets for partnering with trendsetters to create passionate brand advocates

Purpose This study aims to explore passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere and addresses two research questions: How does passion animate labour? emotion of passions discipline fuse within Design/methodology/approach presents a three-year netnographic fieldwork replikate blogger-preneurs. Data are based on in-depth interviews, blogs, social media posts informed by relationships developed a...

There is a long-standing difference of approach between those who see ethnic groups as firmly bounded, durable communities inclined toward ethnocentrism, hostility to outsiders, and passionate conflict, and those who see them as social constructs, with a solidarity based on material rewards and conflict behavior based on calculation. This difference of approach ought to yield to a new synthesis...

Robert Solomon’s philosophy of emotion should be understood in the light of his lifelong commitment to existentialism and his advocacy of “the passionate life” as a means of creating value. Although he developed his views in the framework of the “cognitive theory” of emotions, closer examination reveals many themes in common with a socially situated, transactionalist view of emotions.