<title/> This paper analyses the goals, the organizational structures and processes, and the investment criteria that underlie venture strategies in Germany today, using a sample of 20 corporate venture capital organizations (CVCs). The performance of these CVCs is examined and the data are compared...

<title>Abstract</title> Exchange is regarded as the fundamental activity in every economic context. Seeking a theoretical conceptualization of exchange in an interorganizational sense, the authors use a qualitative study of venture capital organizations (VCs) in Germany and their portfolio companies (PCs) to...

Summary Exchange is regarded as the fundamental activity in every economic context. Seeking a, theoretical conceptualization of interorganizational exchange, we conduct interpretative analysis of, venture capital organizations in Germany and their portfolio companies to develop an...

Das Paper beschäftigt sich mit einer zentralen, bisher oft vernachlässigten Dimension der Organisationskultur, der Zeit. Sie wird deshalb als Faktor herausgegriffen und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Organisationskultur beleuchtet. Denn alle Ansätze, die die Rolle der...

This paper analyzes the goals, the organizational structures and processes, and the investment criteria that underlie venture strategies in Germany today, using a sample of 20 corporate venture capital organizations (CVCs). The performance of these CVCs is examined and the data are compared with...

Das vorliegende Papier ist mit seiner Vollerhebung des deutschen Corporate Venture Capital- Marktes als eine Art Industrie- oder Branchenreport der CVC-Branche in Deutschland zu betrachten. Sein Ziel ist, einen Überblick über den deutschen CVC-Markt in 2003 zu geben sowie dessen Veränderungen...

Based on responses from 20 corporate venture capital organizations (CVCs) in Germany, we examine the goals, degree of autonomy, fund structure, and main investment criteria underlying the venture strategies of CVCs in Germany today as well as how the CVCs have performed strategically and...

I empirically analyze the formation and transformation of corporate venture capitalists’ (CVC) social networks and social capital. I investigate the resulting structural and relational changes illuminating the process of interorganizational knowledge transfer and innovation generation of CVC...

Although reciprocity is fundamental to all social orders, management research offers few reviews of the concept’s theoretical origins and current applications. To help bridge this gap, we elucidate the dominant understandings of reciprocity, ask which areas of research emerge from them, and...

This study addresses the emergence of social liabilities by taking a social network perspective on intra- and interorganizational network configurations using the hitherto unexplored example of the corporate venture capital (CVC) triad (CVC unit, corporate business unit, and portfolio company)....