This study applies human capital theory to link social entrepreneurs' characteristics and the performance of social ventures. Especially, considering the dualistic nature of social ventures, we investigate two specific human capital of entrepreneurs, such as prior social experience and prior...

This study explores the complementary role of acquisition/assimilation and transformation/exploitation in the absorptive capacity in the perspective of knowledge absorptive capacity. For this, depending on human capital and resource-based view, this study pays attention to the interaction effect...

This study aims to examines the effects of an entrepreneur's human capital characteristics in early-stage firms in Korean venture industry. The data come from 260 firms which was gone public during 2000s in the Korean information technology (IT) industry. We consider age, schooling, and...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the human and social capitals of Korea venture capitalists influence their investment strategy and performance, considering the mediating role of the investment strategy they use. The database in which Korea Venture Investment Corp. recorded the...

In the entrepreneurship field, this study examines what kinds of external endorsements are helpful for venture capitals investment and the growth of new technology ventures in developing countries. This study uses the signalling theory and the methodologies of multiple regression and survival...