The term ‘investor relations' (IR) often refers only to the very formal and primarily anonymous relations and communication between publicly traded companies and their (potential) shareholders. Especially for young and not yet publicly traded companies (so-called start-ups), it can be shown...

The majority of research on corporate venture capital (CVC) relies on data retrieved from secondary databases. The various databases however define CVC differently. Generally, researchers rely on the definition of the used database. As a result, empirical CVC research is not readily comparable,...

Corporate venture capital (CVC) investors are regularly painted with the same brush, a fact underscored by the often observed belief in the extant literature that corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) form a homogeneous group. In contrast to this simplifying perspective, this paper categorizes...

This study sheds light on the so-called, "entrepreneurial event," which is of utmost importance within the entrepreneurial process. We develop a framework describing the occurrence of such an event in terms of characteristics of the business opportunity as well as in terms of characteristics of...