What are we explaining? A review and agenda on initiating, engaging, performing, and contextualizing entrepreneurship

DA Shepherd, K Wennberg, R Suddaby… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Entrepreneurship is multifaceted. The purpose of this review is to acknowledge and critically
assess the many and varied dependent variables (DVs) of entrepreneurship over the last 17 …

Start-up teams: A multidimensional conceptualization, integrative review of past research, and future research agenda

AP Knight, LL Greer, B De Jong - Academy of Management Annals, 2020 - journals.aom.org
Academic interest in start-up teams has grown dramatically over the past 40 years, with
researchers from a wide variety of disciplines actively studying the topic. Although this …

Legitimate to whom? The challenge of audience diversity and new venture legitimacy

G Fisher, DF Kuratko, JM Bloodgood… - Journal of Business …, 2017 - Elsevier
We examine how entrepreneurs manage new venture legitimacy judgments across diverse
audiences, so as to appear legitimate to the different audience groups that provide much …

Human capital signals and entrepreneurs' success in equity crowdfunding

E Piva, C Rossi-Lamastra - Small Business Economics, 2018 - Springer
Grounding on research about the role of signals in the attraction of equity finance, this paper
studies the effects of diverse human capital signals on entrepreneurs' success in equity …

Signaling for more money: The roles of founders' human capital and investor prominence in resource acquisition across different stages of firm development

EJ Ko, A McKelvie - Journal of Business Venturing, 2018 - Elsevier
We use signaling theory to explain how new ventures effectively signal future prospects to
acquire external resources. Based on a sample of 235 new ventures drawn from a unique …

The wisdom of the crowd in funding: information heterogeneity and social networks of crowdfunders

F Polzin, H Toxopeus, E Stam - Small Business Economics, 2018 - Springer
Crowdfunding has enabled large crowds to fund innovative projects. This type of funding
might tap into the wisdom of crowds who were previously disconnected from the funding …

[HTML][HTML] What signals matter for social startups? It depends: The influence of gender role congruity on social impact accelerator selection decisions

S Yang, R Kher, SL Newbert - Journal of Business Venturing, 2020 - Elsevier
Social impact accelerators (SIAs) seek to select startups with the potential to generate
financial returns and social impact. Through the lenses of signaling theory and gender role …

New venture survival: A review and extension

A Soto‐Simeone, C Sirén… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

An equity crowdfunding research agenda: Evidence from stakeholder participation in the rulemaking process

ME Cummings, H Rawhouser, S Vismara… - Small Business …, 2020 - Springer
Equity crowdfunding is a unique form of entrepreneurial finance that combines elements of
private and public equity. We articulate its distinctive features, then review and qualitatively …

Business angels research in entrepreneurial finance: A literature review and a research agenda

F Tenca, A Croce, E Ughetto - Contemporary Topics in Finance …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Business angels (BAs) are high wealthy individuals, usually former entrepreneurs or
professionals, who invest their own money in promising startups in which they have no direct …