The different roles played by venture capital and private equity investors on the investment activity of their portfolio firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 607-633

  Bertoni, Fabio ^a   Ferrer, María Alejandra ^b   Marti J ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Buyouts; Investment sensitivity to cash flow; Private equity; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873749640     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9384-x     Document Type: Article

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