part PART I Conceptual framework -- chapter 1 Background -- chapter 2 Risk and uncertainty -- part PART II Sampling and evidence -- chapter 3 Sampling, fieldwork and instrumentation -- chapter 4 Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs conduct -- part PART III Statistical analysis -- chapter 5...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of risk handling arrangements adopted in the relationship between the venture capital investor and his investee. The theoretical framework adopted is principal-agent analysis, which views the investee as a risk averse agent entering into a risk sharing...

Purpose – To express and illustrate in verse ubiquitous problems of organizational, auditing and trading malfunctions, thereby stimulating the imagination to contemplate alternative approaches. Design/methodology/approach – Poetic expression of the following design: I. “Putting out...