ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Venture capital is a major source of funding for the entrepreneurial community and usually focuses on the early stage, more risk orientated business endeavours. This study explores and identifies the investment criteria used by South African venture capitalists in their venture...

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Purpose – This paper seeks to explore how aspects of pre-decision control mechanisms impact managerial decision-making behaviour with regard to strategic investment projects. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopted a mixed-method research approach. Research evidence was collected...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess whether internal audit role and reporting relationships affect investor perceptions of disclosure credibility. Design/methodology/approach – The experiment involved a 2 × 2 design with internal audit role and reporting relationship randomly...