<title/> This study is a preliminary step in examining whether reputation effects are operating in the UK informal venture capital market. We test the notion as to whether deal-makers rely on fundamentally different sources of leads and get shown better quality opportunities generally than is the case...

<title/> This study examined informal investment in the 29 nations that participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study in 2001. Investment was tabulated by gender, age of investor and amount invested for the 29 nations combined. Prevalence of opportunity-pull entrepreneurship was...

This article addresses two important questions: First, what has been the overall track record of internal corporate venturing? Second, why do some organizations do much better at internal corporate venturing than others? After discussing the paradoxical nature of corporate entrepreneurship and...