Outside board members in high tech start-ups

Small Business Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-259

  Clarysse, Bart ^a,b   Knockaert, Mirjam ^a   Lockett, Andy ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Board; Board composition; Corporate governance; Founding teams; High tech start up; Resource dependency; University spin off; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548100315     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9033-y     Document Type: Article

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