Syndication in venture capital financing

Financial Review

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 557-578

  Deli, Daniel N ^a   Santhanakrishnan, Mukunthan ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial policy; Syndication; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960399868     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2010.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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