Venture Capital Staging: Domestic Versus Foreign Vc-Led Investments

The Oxford Handbook of Venture Capital

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Li, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Investment projects; Real options theory; Staged financing; Venture capital staging; Venture capitalists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923403864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391596.013.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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