Venture capital funds: Do they meet the expectations of portfolio firms?

Venture Capital

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-41

  Berg Utby, Terje ^a   Sørheim, Roger ^a,b   Widding, L O ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Resource dependency; Value added; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751574928     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060600995998     Document Type: Article

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