Entrepreneurs and innovation: The contingent role of institutional factors

L Fuentelsaz, JP Maicas… - … small business journal, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Entrepreneurs play a key role in introducing innovations into the market. However, the extant
literature has found that the degree of innovation within new ventures varies considerably …

A guide to becoming green: Insights from angel investors developing sustainability-specific knowledge

M Siefkes - Journal of Small Business Management, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores how business angels develop the knowledge necessary to offer
sustainability-value-adding activities, thereby becoming green angels. A multiple case study …

Empirical research on high-growth entrepreneurship: a literature review and Latam research agenda

JA Diaz Tautiva - … Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Given the lack of theoretical and empirical research on high-growth entrepreneurs
in developed and developing economies; this paper aims to answer, what are the main …

Why do business angels invest? Uncovering angels' goals

R Falcão, MJ Carneiro, AC Moreira - Cogent Business & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the increasing importance of business angels (BAs) as crucial players in the growth
of high-potential early-stage startups, their motivations are not fully understood. Many of the …

Sustainable firms and legitimacy: Corporate venture capital as an effective endorsement

D de Lange, D Valliere - Journal of Small Business Management, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This empirical study investigates the legitimizing effects of the presence of different investor
types supporting entrepreneurial ventures. These effects may differ for sustainable ventures …

The role of regulatory focus and cognitive style in business angels' evaluation of an investment opportunity

S Franić, M Drnovšek - Venture Capital, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates how two cognitive mechanisms of business angels–regulatory focus
and cognitive style–contribute to the process of evaluating an investment opportunity …

Understanding the impact of well-being on entrepreneurship in the context of emerging economies

EA Henao García, F Galia… - … of Entrepreneurship in …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to assess what happens to a willingness to take entrepreneurial
action when people experience low or high subjective well-being (SWB) in 12 emerging …

Venture capital investments in artificial intelligence

B Montanaro, A Croce, E Ughetto - Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2024 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have significantly attracted the attention of institutional
investors over the last decade. However, previous literature has not deeply explored the …

Business angels and investment rejection reasons: A qualitative study by using exploratory sequential mixed method

N Iqbal, T Mushtaque… - Journal of Business …, 2019 - greenwichjournals.com
The main focus of this study is to evaluate the decision making process of business angels
and the reasons for which they reject investment opportunities. According to heterogenetic …

Sélectionner, contrôler et accompagner: le credo du Business Angel pour réduire le risque de l'entreprise

L Tessier, M Ramadan - Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2020 - cairn.info
Cet article propose de discuter dans quelle mesure l'accompagnement des Business Angels
contribue à une réduction des risques d'échec des entrepreneurs. Des éléments …