The association between venture capitalists' selection and value adding behavior: Evidence from early stage high tech venture capitalists

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 493-509

  Knockaert, Mirjam ^a,b   Vanacker, Tom ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Collective effort theory; Selection behavior; Self efficacy theory; Value adding behavior; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873751103     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9378-8     Document Type: Article

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