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This chapter presents research findings from in-depth interview data in the form of narrative analysis and illustrative quotations. The data demonstrates how technical-professional entrepreneurial newcomers in the pursuit of high-potential start-up converge with influential and powerful bridges and align their communication styles to blend in. In particular, the data shows that technical-professional entrepreneurial newcomers attune their cognition and cognitively converge with influential and powerful bridges through in-group approximation, formal-functional language and concise-accurate communication.
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Lee, R. (2017). Entrepreneurial Newcomers and Cognitive Convergence in Bridging Structures. In: The Social Capital of Entrepreneurial Newcomers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59820-2_6
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