Despite a rise in scholarly interest in venture competitions, there is still no consensus on exactly why they affect startups’ business success. Some scholars argue that venture competitions’ main appeal lies in the cash prize they offer. Others claim that what matters most is the...

Venture Capital (VC) has emerged as the dominant source of finance for entrepreneurial and early stage businesses, and the Indian VC industry in particular has clocked the fastest growth rate globally. Academic literature reveals that VC funded companies show superior performance to non VC...

This paper deploys Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) to elaborate on the shortcomings of mainstream transfer pricing in multinational firms. Departing from the notion that multinationals increasingly (re-)organize their business along multinational value chains irrespective of jurisdictional...

This research adopted an exploratory, case-based theorising approach and empirically examined the model of forces influencing the speed of internationalization developed by Oviatt and McDougall (2005). This study proposed a 4-by-4 matrix consisting of the time axis and the speed axis in order to...

Müasir dövrdə Xüsusi İqtisadi Zonalar (XİZ) xarici ticarət strategiyasının vacib elementlərindən biridir. Belə ki, XİZ yerli və xarici kapitalın cəlb olunmasına, ixracın genişlənməsinə, valyuta ehtiyatlarının artmasına, yeni texnologiyalara çıxma imkanına və...

Crowdlending has emerged in recent years as an innovative way to finance new ventures and small companies. However, digitalized funding is a new technology itself; therefore, it is prone to mispricing and inefficiencies. We investigate whether peer-to-peer crowdlending to businesses provides...

This Article argues that the norms and legal practices of global finance in the arenas of sovereign debt and private wealth have led to a significant market failure, in particular the over-supply of sovereign borrowing and a related misallocation of global capital away from its most productive...

This paper investigates the influence of social capital on young firms' financing arrangements. Using a sample of U.S. start-ups, I find that social capital, as captured by secular norms and social networks in the entrepreneur's county, increases access to outside financing and reduces reliance...