The promise of new ventures' growth ambitions in early-stage funding: on the crossroads between cheap talk and credible signals

S Kleinert - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
When entrepreneurs express their ambitions to achieve extraordinary financial growth, it
may signal growth potential to early-stage investors. However, as this study proposes …

New Venture Governance: An Integrative, Multidisciplinary Review

P Deb, V Sreekumar, P Sen, A Duru… - … of Management Annals, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Based on 259 articles published in the entrepreneurship, management, and finance
literatures during 1990–2022, we provide an integrative review and synthesis of governance …

The time-varying effects of rhetorical signals in crowdfunding campaigns

M Moradi, M Dass, D Arnett… - Journal of the Academy of …, 2024 - Springer
As crowdfunding success relies heavily on designing campaigns that attempt to influence
potential backers within a fixed time frame, this study leverages signaling theory to explore …

Fortune favors the experienced: entrepreneurs' Internet-Era Imprint, digital entrepreneurship and venture capital

W Liu, Y Xu, CH Wu, Y Luo - Information Processing & Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This study focuses on entrepreneurs' Internet-era imprint and its effect on the level of digital
entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial firms' venture capital. From the perspective of …

An investigation of consumer switching intention on the use of automated courier station from a signaling perspective

Z Li, M Wu, CC Teo, KF Yuen - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2024 - Elsevier
The escalating demands for last-mile delivery services have reached unsustainable levels
with the fast expansion of e-commerce. Encouraging users' switching intention to use …

Mapping the signaling environment between sustainability‐focused entrepreneurship and investment inputs: A topic modeling approach

N Yang, D Dousios, N Korfiatis… - Business Strategy and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The need for climate action has increased attention to sustainability‐focused
entrepreneurship. In this context, entrepreneurial firms play a fundamental role in …

Signaling sustainability: Can it entice business angels' willingness to invest?

S Shahid, I Liouka, I Deligianni - Business Strategy and the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite increasing attention to sustainability as a source of new business opportunities,
current research on new ventures has hardly considered this factor with respect to access to …

Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs' Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums

JA Chandler, JA Waddingham… - … Theory and Practice, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing from costless signaling research, we examine the role of virtue language in Airbnb
listings. We propose that virtue language espoused by entrepreneurs is beneficial for Airbnb …

Green signals: The impact of environmental protection support policies on firms' green innovation

L Yang, S Song, C Liu - Business Strategy and the Environment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of government environmental financial incentives in stimulating firms' green
innovation has long been recognized. However, researchers have yet to fully determine how …

A bibliometric review of early-stage entrepreneurial equity financing: an overview and future research agenda

Y Zhang, D Wang, MM Yang, J Li, S Liu - Venture Capital, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Rich research on the sources of entrepreneurial capital has gradually been developed in the
field of entrepreneurial equity financing. However, diverse and segmented research …