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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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Entrepreneurial Innovation: the European Union perspective
Ignatov, Augustin - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 18 (2018) 2, pp. 137-154
Entrepreneurship is the driving force of economic development and progress. A successful state, first of all, provides …
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Information asymmetry and adverse wealth effects of crowdfunding
Firoozi, Fathali; Jalilvand, Abolhassan; Lien, … - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) 18 (2016) 1, pp. 1-8
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 in the U.S. expanded the capital markets so that entrepreneurs can appeal directly to non-traditional small crowd investors for investment funds. The final rules and forms of the JOBS Act became effective in May 16, 2016. Existing literature...
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Nothing Ventured - Nothing Gained? Empirical Evidence on Venture Capital Financing in Switzerland
Hopp, Christian - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 143 (2007) 3, pp. 239-260
This paper analyses the Determinants of Venture Capital Staging and Syndication in Switzerland. I find that among the different affiliations of VC investors in Switzerland especially independent investors make more extensive use of staged capital infusions. Moreover, the results suggest that...
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The rationality and irrationality of financing green start-ups
Bergset, Linda - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 4, pp. 260-285
Green start-ups contribute towards a transition to a more sustainable economy by developing sustainable and environmentally friendly innovation and bringing it to the market. Due to specific product/service characteristics, entrepreneurial motivation and company strategies that might differ from...
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Venture capitalists' investment criteria in Poland: Entrepreneurial opportunities, entrepreneurs, and founding teams
Morawczyński, Rafał - In: Administrative Sciences 10 (2020) 4, pp. 1-30
The aim of this article is to explore the decision-making policies by Polish Venture Capital (VC) firms, with special focus on the perception of entrepreneurs. This paper presents the results of a conjoint analysis and assessment of the importance of select characteristics among entrepreneurs...
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Formal and informal equity funding in Chile
Amorós, José Ernesto; Atienza, Miguel; Romani, Gianni - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 179-194
gathered from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys, the paper argues that despite the favorable environment …
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Does university entrepreneurship work in Japan? A comparison of industry-university research funding and technology transfer activities between the UK and Japan
Ito, Tatsuya; Kaneta, Takashi; Sundstrom, Sue - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-21
Entrepreneurship in Japanese universities has changed radically over the last 15 years, following the introduction of … an equivalent to the Bayh-Dole Act in 1999. However, it is still unclear whether Japanese entrepreneurship is working …. There are some publications that focus on the entrepreneurship environment in the early of 2000s by comparing Japan and …
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Mikrokredite: Bedarf auch in Deutschland
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 27/28, pp. 451-456
Fehlende Finanzierung wird als ein zentraler Grund angesehen, warum kleine Unternehmen scheitern. Seit einigen Jahren wird daher versucht, das Instrument der Mikrokredite auch in Deutschland zu etablieren. Eine erste empirische Studie zeigt, dass rund 15 Prozent aller Selbständigen Interesse an...
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Insolvenzordnung: Möglichkeit des Neustarts erleichtert Unternehmensgründungen
Fossen, Frank M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 5, pp. 11-13
Seit 1999 die Insolvenzordnung eingeführt wurde, können sich Privatpersonen, die sich überschuldet haben, in einem Insolvenzverfahren entschulden. Dafür muss der private Schuldner zunächst die sechsjährige Wohlverhaltensphase durchlaufen, während derer sein Einkommen oberhalb einer...
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