Equity financing in entrepreneurship primarily includes venture capital, corporate venture
capital, angel investment, crowdfunding, and accelerators. We take stock of venture …

Research summary: T his article provides a review of real options theory (ROT) in strategic
management research. We review the fundamentals of ROT and provide a taxonomy of this …

This paper illustrates how chronic uncertainty caused by crisis events affects the availability
of entrepreneurial sources of finance for start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises …

Research Summary Companies sponsor platform ecosystems as an open innovation
strategy to encourage complementors to develop complementary products, services, or …

This article extends signaling theory to research on acquisition premiums and investigates
the value that newly public targets capture in post-IPO acquisitions. We complement …

Prior studies have examined the importance of economic, strategic, and human factors to
decision policies of angel investors and venture capitalists. As more angels professionalize …

The lean startup model emerging from the Silicon Valley recently has become worldwide
practice. In this model, search and execution are the two primary activities conducted by …

This paper shows that market frictions are fundamental building blocks for an organizational
economics approach to strategic management. Various organizational economic …

This study examines how the performance of cross-border venture capital investments is
affected by national institutional and cultural distances between the environments of venture …

Existing research has used real options theory to study corporate venture capital (CVC)
investment, yet little work has empirically examined such investment in a comparative …