H9. Market Emergence: the Alignment Process of Entrepreneurs’ Socio Cognition and Consumers’ Perception of the Market

Drawing on social constructive perspective, this study bridges entrepreneurial decision-making and legitimacy underlying the micro-foundation of the market creation. I argue that the extent to which the market is legitimate depends on the alignment between entrepreneur's socio cognition of the market and consumers' perception of the market.



Citation:

Hao Wang (2018) ,"H9. Market Emergence: the Alignment Process of Entrepreneurs’ Socio Cognition and Consumers’ Perception of the Market", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 46, eds. Andrew Gershoff, Robert Kozinets, and Tiffany White, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 933-933.

Authors

Hao Wang, University of South Florida, USA



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 46 | 2018



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