The article "Making an Impression Through Openness: How Open Strategy-Making Practices Change in the Evolution of New Ventures" by Thomas Gegenhuber and Leonhard Dobusch is forthcoming in the Long Range Planning Special Issue on Open Strategy (guest editors: Julia Hautz, David Seidl and Richard Whittington).

 Drawing on a comparative, longitudinal case study of two new ventures' communication on strategy-related issues over a four-year period, Gegenhuber and Dobusch demonstrate that openness enables firms to shape external audiences’ impressions in novel ways.
The article can be accessed here, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster and more background information can be found in this, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster news report (in German). For more information on Open Strategy (news & events, bibliography, etc.) visit the Open Strategy Network, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster.