An examination of the level of success achieved byprivate-sector venture capital firms (VCFs) in Germany, the managerialvariables determining success at the level of individual investments, and thetheoretical and practical implications for managing VCFswasconducted. Data on portfolio companies...

Insights into strategic antecedents and consequences of management support activities that German venture capital firms (VCFs) provide for portfolio companies (PCs) they have invested in are presented. Such support activities, their primary determinants, and their impacts on the economic...

In this paper, we examine different forms of altruism. We commence by analysing the ‘behavioural’ definition and, after clarifying its conditions for altruism, we argue that it is not in ‘reflective equilibrium’ with everyday linguistic usage of the term. We therefore consider a...