In order to become novice, portfolio or serial entrepreneurs, individuals must first establish themselves as nascent entrepreneurs. Hence, the focus of this article is the factors that lead early stage career individuals to choose business venturing rather than any other career path. In this...

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....