The venture capitalist: a relationship investor

Article Abstract:

Based upon a series of case studies, this article explores the role of the venture capitalist in management. In addition to money, venture capitalists provide a variety of inputs to the firms in which they invest, such as operating services, discipline, general business knowledge, image, networks, and moral support. Venture capitalists have three sources of power over management - money, personal relationships, and formal power. They attempt to influence managers to follow their "dominant logic," which generally stresses formal planning, a profit orientation, organizational development, patience, and strategic focus. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Case studies, Practice, Venture capital companies, Venture capital

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Implementing entrepreneurial ideas: the case for intention

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Entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurs' states of mind that direct attention, experience, and action toward a business concept, set the form and direction of organizations at their inception. Subsequent organizational outcomes such as survival, development (including written plans), growth, and change are based on these intentions. The study of entrepreneurial intentions provides a way of advancing entrepreneurship research beyond descriptive studies and helps to distinguish entrepreneurial activity from strategic management. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Analysis, Management research, Strategic planning (Business)

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The female entrepreneur: a career development perspective

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Research profiling the psychological aspects of the typical entrepreneur is generally incomplete, and research focusing on the female entrepreneur is even less extensive and more inconclusive. However, a number of characteristics have emerged, suggesting that women entrepreneurs are: well educated, but not as managers; higher in internal locus of control; more instrumental in their value systems than other women; generally only or first-born children; likely to focus on non-male dominated industries and small businesses; and married.

Women executives

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