RSS 1.0International Review of Entrepreneurship: Volume 15, Issue 2, 2017
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Backing the Horse or the Jockey? Due Diligence, Agency Costs, Information and the Evaluation of Risk by Business Angel Investors
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2017)This paper explores the argument that business angel investors are more concerned with managing and minimising agency risk than market risk. Based on data on the due diligence process from a survey of business angels in ... -
Work Integration Social Enterprises in Transition Countries: The Case of Serbia
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2017)The concept of social enterprise has emerged in the last couple of decades, as a form of social innovation, aimed at increasing welfare of individuals and communities through employment, integration and participation. A ... -
Skills Variety and Self-Employment: The Case of Spain
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2017)This paper analyses empirically the impact on occupational choice of so called balanced skills, as advanced by Lazear (2004). For this purpose we resort to the contextually rich data collected within the REFLEX survey and ... -
Higher Education Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Exploring the Role of Business Incubators in an Emerging Economy
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2017)Entrepreneurship ecosystems involve a set of individual, organizational, industry and environmental elements such as leadership, dynamic capabilities, culture, capital markets, networks, and open-minded customers that ... -
The Role of Corporate Parent Support for Spinoff Innovation Performance
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2017)Spinoff innovation performance and its prerequisites is a relatively under-researched domain. Despite the innovative drive and remarkable growth rates that spinoffs exhibit, the majority of spinoff research focuses on stock ... -
Recruiting for Small Business Growth: Micro-Level Evidence
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2017)We examine the link between new employees in leading positions and subsequent productivity in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Managers and professionals are likely to possess important tacit knowledge. They are ... -
Managerial Stability and the Pricing of New Equity Issuances: The Effects of State Enforcement of Noncompetition Agreements
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2017)In this paper, we empirically investigate the relationship between managerial stability induced by the legal enforcement of noncompetition agreements and the pricing of new equity issuances. Making use of the variation in ...
