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Determinants of the Venture Investment Size in Russian IT Companies

Rodionov, Ivan - 2018

This study investigates the key determinants of the size of investment in Russian IT companies during follow-on rounds … hypothesis proposed by the authors (about impact of the number of founders on the investment in subsequent rounds) as well as … hypothesis about the impact of target market growth on the investment size are also rejected. The latter is surprising as the …

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Determinants of the Venture Investment Size in Russian IT Companies

Rodionov, Ivan - 2019

This study investigates the key determinants of the size of investment in Russian IT companies during follow-on rounds … hypothesis proposed by the authors (about impact of the number of founders on the investment in sub-sequent rounds) as well as … hypothesis about the impact of target market growth on the investment size are also rejected. The latter is surprising as the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891309

Hire Joe to Run the Firm or Run the Firm Myself? Management Agency Costs in Entrepreneurial Firms

Bradford, William D. - 2012

I extend Jensen and Meckling 1976 (“JM”) to show that the change in the firm's performance from the decision on who manages is composed of 1) JM's management agency costs and 2) skill differential agency cash flows: the difference between the owner and the firm's alternate manager in...

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Founder Involvement in CEO Turnover

Kowalewski, Oskar - 2019

We study the role of a company founder in its internal governance. Using a sample of 484 CEO turnovers for 2000-2015, we establish that CEOs are red for poor performance. However, the likelihood of a poor-performing founder-CEO being fi red is lower than that of an outsider CEO. Moreover, having...

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The Effect of Venture Capital Backing on the Top Management Quality of Entrepreneurial Firms and Implications for Initial Public Offerings

Chemmanur, Thomas J. - 2017

We make use of hand-collected data on a large sample of entrepreneurial firms to analyze the effect of venture capital (VC) backing on the management quality of firms going public and the effect of both VC-backing and management quality on IPO variables. We hypothesize that VC-backing will be...

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Are Founder-CEOs Better Innovators?

Shafi, Kourosh - 2014

Founder-CEOs invest more in R&D projects. My findings suggest this is an over- investment problem since founder …

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Does founding team composition influence external investment? : the role of founding team prior experience and founder CEO

Blank, Tali Hadasa; Carmeli, Abraham - In: The journal of technology transfer 46 (2021) 6, pp. 1869-1888

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Peer effects on investment decisions : do industry leaders and young firms behave differently?

Rashid, Abdul; Said, Ayanle Farah - In: Global business review 25 (2024) 3, pp. 791-811

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Strategic Decision Making in Start-Ups : The Effect of Top Management Team Organization and Processes on Speed and Comprehensiveness

Talaulicar, Till - 2006

Technology-based start-ups operate in high-velocity environments that make considerable demands on the comprehensiveness and speed of strategic choices. This study argues that characteristics of top management team (TMT) organization as well as TMT processes, namely debate and trust,...

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Corona virus pandemic: entrepreneurial orientation and its influence on firm performance : evidence from emerging software industry

Rajeswari, P.S.; Suganthi, P. - In: International journal of business excellence : IJBEX 31 (2023) 1, pp. 75-89

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