Due to the importance of technology entrepreneurs’ competencies in the creation and development of technological businesses, a distinct stream of research has been dedicated to this subject. However, given the nature of suchlike studies, it is difficult to reach a common understanding of the competencies. In fact, there is a need to provide some systematization to achieve advancements in the fi...

What drives women out of entrepreneurship? The joint role of testosterone and culture* The ratio of second to fourth digit (2D4D) has been shown to correlate negatively with entrepreneurial skills and financial success. We document that in a sample of entrepreneurs women have a lower 2D4D ratio than men, in sharp contrast with the features of the distribution in random samples. Exploiting varia...

Fifteen years ago, DeLone and McLean published their original model of IS success, which received considerable attention in the literature. Given the widespread acceptance of the model, we conducted a meta-analysis to determine whether the model had been validated by research studies reported in the literature. By aggregating the results of 52 empirical studies that examined relationships withi...

Abstract In recent years, entrepreneurs have increasingly turned to crowdfunding, a new form of entrepreneurial finance, fund projects. Whilst research has shown that signals originating from the entrepreneur and project can affect outcome how different work together under signalling environments remains underexplored. Drawing on theory, we examine entrepreneurs’ credibility (success, failure, ...