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How the Entrepreneurial Top Management Team Setup Influences Firm Performance and the Ability to Raise Capital: A Literature Review

Maschke, Konstantin; zu Knyphausen-Aufseß, Dodo - In: BuR - Business Research 5 (2012) 1, pp. 83-123

This paper reviews research findings on entrepreneurial top management teams within the last 20 years. It concentrates on team-based management factors and their influence on a new venture's growth and ability to raise capital. This paper integrates recent findings and provides an overview of...

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Importance of the non-financial value added of government and independent venture capitalists

Luukkonen, Terttu; Deschryvere, Matthias; Bertoni, Fabio; … - 2011

This paper compares the post-investment value-added activities performed by governmental venture capital (GVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) for their portfolio companies, and controls for the selection effect that the different investment profiles of these investors might have on the...

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Does Venture Capital Syndication Spur Employment Growth and Shareholder Value? Evidence from German IPO Data

Lehmann, Erik E. - 2004

This study examines empirically the syndication of equity by multiple venture capitalists in Germany. Following the literature, there are mainly two competing views as to why venture capitalists syndicate investments. First, syndication can be viewed as a means of risk-sharing. Second, venture...

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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …

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A theory of expert leadership

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...

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Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...

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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

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The Economic Impact of Venture Capital

van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; Romain, Astrid - 2004

This paper attempts to evaluate the macroeconomic impact of venture capital (VC). We test the assumption that VC is similar in several respects to business R&D performed by large firms and therefore contributes to economic growth through two main channels: innovation and absorptive capacity. The...

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The Determinants of Venture Capital: Additional Evidence

van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; Romain, Astrid - 2004

This paper attempts to identify and evaluate the main determinants of venture capital (VC). We develop a theoretical model where macroeconomic conditions, technological opportunity, and the entrepreneurial environment affect the demand and supply of VC. The quantitative results, based on a panel...

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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation

Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - 2002

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control...

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