Social ventures balance the economic and social dimensions of value creation to alleviate the problems created by shared collective issues.While much is known about economic value creation in conventional firms, little empirical work has focused on social ventures. As the number of social...

Social entrepreneurship increasingly garners interest from both the public and academics. Social entrepreneurs have been characterized as being at 'the vanguard (of the) worldwide transformation to improve the quality of life and standard of living around the world,'. Research to understand...

Examines the development patterns for new, high-technology firms and determines factors that relate to the success or failure of these firms. Specifically considered are the extent to which these firms discontinue, become acquired, or achieve unusual sales growth and the founder characteristics...

The paper describes the activities of venture capitalists as an orderly process involving five sequential steps. These are (1) Deal Origination: The processes by which deals enter into consideration as investment prospects, (2) Deal Screening: A delineation of key policy variables which delimit...

Few public companies are immune to takeover attempts. In fact, public companies are, by definition, for sale every day. That's what being a “public” company means.

A phenomenon which characterised the late 1970s was the proclivity of technology oriented companies to enter consumer markets. For example, in the past five years the traditional boundaries between industrial and consumer markets have been diffused, as many electronic component manufacturers...

We all constantly witness breathtaking turns in the fortunes of business enterprises, both large and small. Virtually every issue of the Wall growth suddenly halts or whose stock price abruptly collapses. Readers of these stories usually look for complex reasons to explain the dramatic...