Today, socially responsible investing (SRI) represents the youngest financial-services industry that investors can exploit to implement their investment strategies. Although literature in this field is growing, additional research is needed to disentangle the factors affecting the performance of...

Analyzing 153 venture-backed and non-venture-backed companies that went public in Italy between 1995 and 2004, we tested two hypotheses about the role of venture capital in developing innovations within firms. The first concerns the relevance of innovation and whether it is present when venture...