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 …

What are we explaining? A review and agenda on initiating, engaging, performing, and contextualizing entrepreneurship

DA Shepherd, K Wennberg, R Suddaby… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Entrepreneurship is multifaceted. The purpose of this review is to acknowledge and critically
assess the many and varied dependent variables (DVs) of entrepreneurship over the last 17 …

Persuasion in crowdfunding: An elaboration likelihood model of crowdfunding performance

TH Allison, BC Davis, JW Webb, JC Short - Journal of business venturing, 2017 - Elsevier
This study draws upon the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (ELM) to develop and
test a model of persuasive influence in crowdfunding. To test our hypothesized relationships …

The power of positivity? The influence of positive psychological capital language on crowdfunding performance

AH Anglin, JC Short, W Drover, RM Stevenson… - Journal of Business …, 2018 - Elsevier
We extend the entrepreneurship literature to include positive psychological capital—an
individual or organization's level of psychological resources consisting of hope, optimism …

Human capital and entrepreneurship research: A critical review and future directions

MR Marvel, JL Davis, CR Sproul - … Theory and Practice, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Human capital has emerged as a highly utilized theoretical lens through which scholars can
better understand entrepreneurship. To synthesize the progress of this stream and promote …

Fostering digital entrepreneurship from startup to scaleup: The role of venture capital funds and angel groups

A Cavallo, A Ghezzi, C Dell'Era, E Pellizzoni - … Forecasting and Social …, 2019 - Elsevier
Digital entrepreneurship highly relies on external sources of financing to foster growth. This
study aims at investigating how angel groups and venture capital (VC) funds affect growth of …

Life after business failure: The process and consequences of business failure for entrepreneurs

D Ucbasaran, DA Shepherd, A Lockett… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Where there is uncertainty, there is bound to be failure. It is not surprising, therefore, that
many new ventures fail. What happens to entrepreneurs when their business fails? People …

Does human capital matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between human capital and firm performance.

TR Crook, SY Todd, JG Combs, DJ Woehr… - Journal of applied …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Theory at both the micro and macro level predicts that investments in superior
human capital generate better firm-level performance. However, human capital takes time …

Entrepreneurial alertness in the pursuit of new opportunities

J Tang, KMM Kacmar, L Busenitz - Journal of business venturing, 2012 - Elsevier
The recognition and development of new opportunities are at the heart of entrepreneurship.
Building from Kirzner's (1973, 1999) work, cognition theory, and McMullen and Shepherd's …

Resource-based perspectives on unit-level human capital: A review and integration

AJ Nyberg, TP Moliterno, D Hale Jr… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholarly interest in leveraging resource-based theory to explore the unit-level human
capital resource (HCR) is undergoing a paradigmatic shift in the strategy and strategic …