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Martin L. Martens
Researcher at Concordia University
Publications - 25
Citations - 1475
Martin L. Martens is an academic researcher from Concordia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Initial public offering & Group cohesiveness. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 25 publications receiving 1265 citations. Previous affiliations of Martin L. Martens include Vancouver Island University.
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Do the stories they tell get them the money they need? the role of entrepreneurial narratives in resource acquisition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the effects of storytelling on a firm's ability to secure capital and argue that narratives help leverage resources by conveying a comprehensible identity for an entrepreneurial firm, elaborating the logic behind proposed means of exploiting opportunities and embedding entrepreneurial endeavors within broader discourses.
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Sticking it all together: A critical assessment of the group cohesion–performance literature
TL;DR: A review of the current state of the cohesiveness literature can be found in this article, where a wide range of measures and assessments of cohesion and the cohesion-performance association are discussed.
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Engaging small‐ and medium‐sized businesses in sustainability
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual review of the business case for sustainable development that has been offered to the business world is presented, and the authors explore how to meaningfully engage small to medium-sized enterprises in strategies that improve the social and environmental sustainability of their businesses.
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The mediating role of overall fairness and the moderating role of trust certainty in justice–criteria relationships: the formation and use of fairness heuristics in the workplace
David A. Jones,Martin L. Martens +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that perceptions of overall fairness are influenced by different types of justice, are more proximal predictors of responses than specific justice types, and are used to infer trust when trust certainty is low.
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Astroturfing Global Warming: It Isn’t Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the effectiveness of astroturf organizations in the global warming context, where large corporate polluters have an incentive to set up astroturlabers to undermine the importance of human activities in climate change.