A review and road map of entrepreneurial equity financing research: Venture capital, corporate venture capital, angel investment, crowdfunding, and accelerators

W Drover, L Busenitz, S Matusik… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Equity financing in entrepreneurship primarily includes venture capital, corporate venture
capital, angel investment, crowdfunding, and accelerators. We take stock of venture …

Optimal distinctiveness: Broadening the interface between institutional theory and strategic management

EY Zhao, G Fisher, M Lounsbury… - Strategic Management …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research summary: A ttaining optimal distinctiveness—positive stakeholder perceptions
about a firm's strategic position that reconciles competing demands for differentiation and …

Legitimate to whom? The challenge of audience diversity and new venture legitimacy

G Fisher, DF Kuratko, JM Bloodgood… - Journal of Business …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
We examine how entrepreneurs manage new venture legitimacy judgments across diverse
audiences, so as to appear legitimate to the different audience groups that provide much …

Creating new ventures: A review and research agenda

DA Shepherd, V Souitaris… - Journal of Management, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Creating new ventures is one of the most central topics to entrepreneurship and is a critical
step from which many theories of management, organizational behavior, and strategic …

New venture teams: A review of the literature and roadmap for future research

AC Klotz, KM Hmieleski, BH Bradley… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - journals.sagepub.com
As entrepreneurship research has matured, scholars have increasingly recognized that the
formation of new ventures is commonly accomplished by teams as opposed to lone …

Do accelerators work? If so, how?

BL Hallen, SL Cohen, CB Bingham - Organization Science, 2020‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Accelerators are entrepreneurial programs that attempt to help ventures learn, often utilizing
extensive consultation with mentors, program directors, customers, guest speakers, alumni …

The study of bias in entrepreneurship

SX Zhang, J Cueto - Entrepreneurship theory and Practice, 2017‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars use the theoretical lens of bias to research various behavioral phenomena in
entrepreneurship. We assess this body of research, focusing on definitional issues and …

Passion for entrepreneurship or passion for the product? A conjoint analysis of angel and VC decision-making

BJ Warnick, CY Murnieks, JS McMullen… - Journal of Business …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Passion is important to venture investors, but what specifically do they want entrepreneurs to
be passionate about? This study theorizes that angel investors and venture capitalists …

[HTML][HTML] Which criteria matter when impact investors screen social enterprises?

JH Block, M Hirschmann, C Fisch - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Impact investors pursue both financial and social goals and have become an important
source of funding for social enterprises. Our study assesses impact investor criteria when …

Drawn to the fire: The role of passion, tenacity and inspirational leadership in angel investing

CY Murnieks, MS Cardon, R Sudek, TD White… - Journal of Business …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Extant research affirms that angel investors seek passionate entrepreneurs but questions
surround whether there is value in passion itself, or if it is instead used as a marker for other …