We examine how venture CEOs effectively engage their boards in the strategy-making process. Using the inductive multiple-case study approach, we track CEO-board interactions inside and outside the boardroom in depth and over time through rare observations of board meetings and rich interview...

As the civil society and corporatism theories have been frequently challenged recently, alternative theories emerged to investigate the government-NGO relationship in China. Some new theories are largely related to resource dependence or share core ideas with it. This paper conducts a...

This article identifies and classifies the problems perceived by entrepreneurs when they use social network ties (direct and indirect ties) to acquire resources during the early stages of new venture formation process. On the basis of field interviews with 128 high-tech entrepreneurs in...