* General Manager, Finance, CSR Limited. 1 For the purposes of this paper, capital management refers to the process of determining the optimal capital structure of a non-financial company. There are, of course, a number of issues that relate to the optimal capital investment strategy that are not addressed here. 2 A leveraged buy-out (LBO) facilitates equity ownership of a company via a highly-...

This paper focuses on the relationship between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. In particular, it analyses how both players’ unobservable effort levels affect the equity share that the entrepreneur is willing to cede to the venture capitalist. We solve the entrepreneur’s maximization problem in the presence of double-sided moral hazard. In this scenario, we show that the venture cap...

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners’ children. First, we find strong evidence that parenting more daughters l...

Entrepreneurial Business Models in the German Software Industry: Companies, Venture Capital, and Stock Market Based Growth Strategies on the ‘Neuer Markt’

Received: 29 May 2010 Revised: 1 May 2011 Accepted: 18 July 2011 Online publication date: 8 September 2011 Abstract Despite the increasing importance of financial and social remittances to developing countries, their impact on home-country venture-investing environments has been largely overlooked. I develop a framework grounded in transaction costs economics and social knowledge theories to in...

This paper examines the impact of government-sponsored venture capitalists (GVCs) on the success of enterprises. Using international enterprise-level data, we identify a surprising non-monotonicity in the effect of GVC on the likelihood of exit via initial public offerings (IPOs) or third party acquisitions. Enterprises that receive funding from both private venture capitalists (PVCs) and GVCs ...

Internet-related health care firms have accelerated through the life cycle of capital finance and organizational destiny, including venture capital funding, public stock offerings, and consolidation, in the wake of heightened competition and earnings disappointments. Venture capital flooded into the e-health sector, rising from $3 million in the first quarter of 1998 to $335 million two years l...

It is especially difficult for seed stage companies to find adequate financing. In the last decade venture capital (VC) has played significant role in funding seed and start-up stage companies. Our study focuses on the financing of seed stage companies via venture capital funds subsidized by the state and European Union. Seed stage companies are supported by incubator houses with infrastructure...

The development of mobile applications has mushroomed in local and foreign industries. This provides a tremendous opportunity for developers. For technopreneur developer, the capital to run the business is one of the biggest problems despite the fact that they may have great competence in the field. The fact that the business has big potential market in Indonesia has invited investors from loca...

This paper analyzes the change in the capital structure behavior in a sample of Spanish venture capital (VC) backed firms after the first capital infusion. We find that VC investors contribute to unlisted growing firms in the attraction of other long term sources of funds to continue their growth process. Our results show significant changes in determinants such as tangibility, size and profita...