Entrepreneurial Finance, Crowdfunding, and Language

The role of language in organisations 13

(Tidwell & Walther, 2002); such styles influence meaning construction and

interpretation. Cramton (2001) argued that in the case of virtual teams, con-

textual information is not always readily available and that members must

seek out additional information to try to obtain the full meaning of the

communication.

Although the extant management and organisation literature highlights the

additional challenges related to virtual coordination, communication, and per-

formance vis-à-vis face-to-face work, few studies have focused on how the vir-

tual environment and its particularities influence sense-making.

Marshall and Sandberge (2011) noted that few existing studies on sense-

making in virtual settings (e.g. ...