<title/> This study is a preliminary step in examining whether reputation effects are operating in the UK informal venture capital market. We test the notion as to whether deal-makers rely on fundamentally different sources of leads and get shown better quality opportunities generally than is the case...

<title/> This study examined informal investment in the 29 nations that participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study in 2001. Investment was tabulated by gender, age of investor and amount invested for the 29 nations combined. Prevalence of opportunity-pull entrepreneurship was...

Relying on agency theory for guidance, a model is developed and empirically tested to examine the influence that various attributes of the contracting parties and of the deal itself can have on the form of the contract adopted between business angels and entrepreneurs. Findings are based on...

<title/> This paper focuses on the question of how relational rents can be created in the venture capitalist-entrepreneur dyad. It identifies how theoretical frameworks, such as agency theory and procedural justice theory, have been used to describe the relationship between venture capitalists and...