In three essays, I investigate language in entrepreneurial contexts and its effects. Employing computer-aided text analysis, I (1) quantify if the academic entrepreneurship discourse is positive, money-focused, and gender-biased, (2) reveal that a venture’s low social standing is a boundary condition to the belief that confrontational language increases social media engagement, and (3) show that, in reward-based crowdfunding, women can profit from innovation claims, especially in male-typed categories.
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In three essays, I investigate language in entrepreneurial contexts and its effects. Employing computer-aided text analysis, I (1) quantify if the academic entrepreneurship discourse is positive, money-focused, and gender-biased, (2) reveal that a venture’s low social standing is a boundary condition to the belief that confrontational language increases social media engagement, and (3) show that, in reward-based crowdfunding, women can profit from innovation claims, especially in male-typed cate...
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