Venture capitalists' expertise: A call for research into decision aids and cognitive feedback

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-20

  Shepherd, Dean A ^a   Zacharakis, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive feedback; Decision aids; Venture capitalists

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038765967     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-9026(00)00051-3     Document Type: Article

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