Marriage of unequals? Investment quality heterogeneity, market heat, and the formation of status-asymmetric ties in the venture capital industry

PI Zhelyazkov, A Tatarynowicz - Academy of Management Journal, 2021 - journals.aom.org
In this study, we investigate the emergence of status-asymmetric ties among venture capital
firms. In particular, we highlight the venture's performance trajectory as a powerful …

Performance feedback as a cooperation “switch”: A behavioral perspective on the success of venture capital syndicates among competitors

A Makarevich - Strategic Management Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary: This study draws on the performance feedback theory to advance a
behavioral perspective on the dynamics of cooperation among competitors in venture capital …

Multiplexity and strategic alliances: The relational embeddedness of coalitions in social movement organisational fields

CR Simpson - Social Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
While scholars have embraced the notion of social movements as networks, there has been
little empirical exploration of the emergence of coalitions within these multilayered systems …

Understanding distributor opportunism in a horizontal network

F Zeng, Y Chen, MC Dong, J Zheng - Industrial Marketing Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Much of the recent literature on distributor opportunism has focused on how to predict and
control it from a dyadic perspective. As a distributor is embedded in a horizontal network with …

Beggars or choosers? Lead venture capitalists and the impact of reputation on syndicate partner selection in international settings

C Plagmann, E Lutz - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigate the importance of reputation for lead venture capitalists' choice of
international and domestic syndicate partners for domestic deals. Our study is based on a …

Don't stand so close to me: competitive pressures, proximity and inter-organizational collaboration

D Mascia, F Pallotti, F Angeli - Regional Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Don't stand so close to me: competitive pressures, proximity and inter-organizational
collaboration. Regional Studies. This paper investigates how geographical proximity …

Founders matter! Serial entrepreneurs and venture capital syndicate formation

L Zhang - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Although founders are responsible for soliciting venture capital (VC) funding, their influence
over VC syndicate formation has largely been neglected in the extant literature. This article …

Multilevel social spaces: The network dynamics of organizational fields

J Hollway, A Lomi, F Pallotti, C Stadtfeld - Network Science, 2017 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we seek to advance an updated concept of social space that integrates the
multilayer and dynamic statistical network methods currently at the disposal of social …

Competitive embeddedness: The impact of competitive relations among a firm's current alliance partners on its new alliance formations

G Park, MJH Kim, J Kang - International Business Review, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, alliance portfolio has been an important research area within the
management and international business fields. Since engaging in multiple alliances …

The dark side of channel rewards for observer distributors: A social comparison perspective

F Zeng, Y Huang, Z Xiao, CL Wang… - Journal of Business …, 2021 - Elsevier
Existing research has primarily investigated the bright side of channel rewards, such as
gaining distributors' positive feedback and/or to avoid their negative responses. While …