Corporate accelerators (CA) are a rapidly growing institutional phenomenon. As agile innovation units they offer start-ups fixed-term coaching programs, designed to provide benefits for start-ups and corporations. Although their proliferation is evident, little is known about their efficacy and...

The benefits of family ownership and control of firms are at the center of the family firm debate. Previous studies have used either family ownership or management as proxies for control. Both indicators are off the mark, as they do not measure "decision control" as intended by the theory of the...

We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm survival on the stock market for young and high-tech firms. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German counterpart of the NASDAQ, our results differ from studies on more traditional...