This paper provides an exploratory examination of the growing phenomenon of secondary management buy‐outs and buy‐ins, where an enterprise having initially been bought out by management is later the subject of a second buy‐out or buy‐in. Such transactions provide a further dimension to...

As the venture capital industry matures and competition increases, understanding the processes by which entrepreneurs select venture capitalists will become increasingly important. Empirical work suggests that awareness of venture capital firms is still low and that the specialist financial and...