Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to uncover the strategic nature of formal seed capital in Norway as opposed to equally sized venture capital firms. Design/methodology/approach – As the population of Norwegian seed capital firms is embedded in this study, a differential approach is...

Boards in early stage high tech firms have an important role to play through their involvement in service tasks. Building on the attention based view of the firm and self-efficacy theory, we investigate the role of top management team (TMT) and board chair characteristics as antecedents of board...

<title/> A theory of new venture management valuation should answer the two questions: (1) What should be assessed? (2) How can it be assessed? In response to the work of Smart (1999), we address the first question and suggest a conceptual framework for the valuation of founder managers' entrepreneurial...

In this article, intellectual capital is seen as complementary capacities of competence and commitment. Based on theoretically and empirically robust human capital theory, we define intellectual capital as individuals’ complementary capacity to generate added value and thus create wealth....

In this study, the effects of conflict on confidence in partner cooperation are explored. While the literature on VC--entrepreneur interactions is well developed, viewing the impact of conflict within the dyad is less developed. The data are based on a survey of 57 entrepreneurs who have...