High growth entrepreneurial companies need external financial resources as their internally generated cash flows are typically smaller than their investment opportunities, but they may be faced with finance constraints due to market imperfections, such as asymmetric information and transaction...

The scope and purpose of this special issue is to reassess the relationships between private equity (PE) investors and their portfolio companies in the light of the need for venture capital/ private equity (VC/PE) firms to adapt their strategies for value creation in the light of the recent...