Purpose While the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence (AI) has been receiving
growing consensus with regards to its positive influence on entrepreneurship, there is a …

This paper provides an evaluative overview of the new venture survival literature. Since
Stinchcombe's primary attempt to explain the mortality rates of new ventures, different …

This article theorizes and empirically investigates how status and provocative language
influence audience engagement with new-venture posts on social media platforms. Using …

Social media marketing is an essential and important tool for start-up firms, which can help
start-up firms remedy the marketing limitations through ease and relatively low costs …

How do venture capitalists (VCs) incorporate weak and strong signals in the valuation of
technology-based startups? Based on a sociocognitive perspective of signaling theory, we …

Using a big data set of venture capital financing and related startup firms from Crunchbase,
this paper develops a machine-learning model called CapitalVX (for “Capital Venture …

Start-ups have revolutionised many economic ecosystems, becoming innovation pioneers
around the world. Most are based on data-driven business models, particularly relying on …

Legitimacy is a fundamental dimension of co-creation as it determines the desirability,
suitability, and appropriateness of individuals or organisations in any community. This …

Investors increasingly use machine learning (ML) algorithms to support their early stage
investment decisions. However, it remains unclear if algorithms can make better investment …

Although organizational mission is central to social venturing, little is known about the nature
and origins of social ventures' missions. In particular, the field lacks a framework for …