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DESCRIPTION:Tim Weiss\n\nAssistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneur
 ship at Imperial College London\n\nCriminal Deception in Silicon Valley\n
 \nDate: Friday\, January 16\, 2026\n	Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM\n	Location: B
 ronfman building\, room 245\n\nRegister here\n\n\nAbstract\n\nScholars are
  increasingly interested in studying how entrepreneurs employ deception. R
 esearch in cultural entrepreneurship specifically looks at the cultural wo
 rk involved in deceiving audiences through the dramatization of entreprene
 urial stories. Yet\, we argue that this rather narrow focus\, as well as t
 he analysis of antecedents and consequences of entrepreneurial fraud among
  scholars of organizational wrongdoing\, fall short in capturing how entre
 preneurs carry out criminal deception—employing deception to defraud audie
 nces. Specifically\, we lack an understanding of the cultural and organizi
 ng work involved in criminal deception. To advance a theory of criminal de
 ception at the culture-organizing interface\, we inductively analyze court
  data of Silicon Valley ventures\, and their entrepreneurs prosecuted for 
 fraud between 2000-2023. Our findings reveal a process of façading through
  which entrepreneurs construct\, perform\, and protect illusory appearance
 s—façades that project high-growth venture performance to audiences while 
 masking ventures’ actual\, subpar performance. We identify three forms of 
 façading—surface\, reinforced\, and deep façading—that are contingent on t
 he severity of the expectation-reality gap that entrepreneurs face and the
  nature of the audiences they must convince. Our theoretical framework cap
 tures how the level of sophistication in façading corresponds to widening 
 expectation-reality gaps\, wherein entrepreneurs detach the venture’s exte
 rnally projected appearance from its actual operational reality. We make c
 ontributions to the literatures on cultural entrepreneurship\, organizatio
 nal wrongdoing\, and the social effects of entrepreneurship.\n\nAbout Tim 
 Weiss\n\nTim Weiss is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Manageme
 nt and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. His research programme
  applies an organizational theory lens to studying entrepreneurship phenom
 ena with a specific focus on the changing nature of entrepreneurship and i
 ts social effects. Leveraging qualitative methods (i.e.\, extensive fieldw
 ork\, ethnography\, and archival work)\, Tim studies phenomena such as col
 locating\, identical car repair firms in Kenya\; experimentation on gig wo
 rkers\; and fraud court cases against Silicon Valley start-ups.\n	Tim is a 
 founding member of the Interdisciplinary Network for Technology and Entrep
 reneurship Research in Africa which supports emerging research talent who 
 focus on studying African economies and of the annual Entrepreneurship & S
 ociety conference.\n\nBefore joining the faculty at Imperial College\, Tim
  was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Work\, Technology & Organ
 ization in Stanford’s Management Science and Engineering Department. He ho
 lds a Doctorate and Master’s degree from a start-up academic institution\,
  Zeppelin University in Germany\, and a Bachelor of Science degree in busi
 ness administration from the University of Vienna.\n
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LOCATION:Room 245\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001
  rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:CSSO Speaker Series: Tim Weiss
URL:/bensadoun-school/channels/event/csso-speaker-seri
 es-tim-weiss-369810
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