... al., 2021). However, women entrepreneurs sometimes have difficulty obtaining financing, which may affect their motivation to start a company. Women lacking social and professional networks may be discouraged from taking the risk of launching their businesses. Ultimately, dynamic capabilities...

...Anastasia Giakoumelou; Antonio Salvi; Olga Kvasova; Ioannis Rizomyliotis Purpose Access to financing is a key success factor for start-ups. High failure rates, long payback periodse and asymmetries lead to conservative pricing and valuation discounts. The authors examine financial marketing...

... venture strategy Financing H1. Category membership (core vs. peripheral) has a direct and positive influence on investor funding in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The literature has brought evidence that patents are reliable signals of a new venture’s technological...

...Sofía Louise Martínez-Martínez; Rafael Ventura; Ana José Cisneros Ruiz; Julio Diéguez-Soto Purpose This study investigates the relationship between the development of academic spin-offs (ASOs) and the type of financing involved, by considering three research questions: How do ASOs differ in terms...

...Nadiya Parekh; Laurence Attuel-Mendès Purpose Social entrepreneurship is gaining increased attention from academia and practitioners worldwide. Owing to its financing challenges, academic pedagogies are seeking methods to strengthen the social financing dimension of this emerging discipline...

... and the descriptive statistics. This is followed by a set of regression models for loan demand and loan supply. We finish by discussing the implications of our findings and how COVID-19 changed the environment for ethnic business and their financing. Marc Cowling can be contacted at: m.cowling@derby.ac.uk...

... desire for economic growth and can be perceived as a potential means to facilitate this change (Gibbs, 2006 ; Schaltegger, 2002). However, besides conventional constraints to starting a new venture, Ecopreneurs face additional pressures of idea validation and a dearth of finance (Financing Eco...

... of the project and aspects that refer to the entrepreneur–funder relationship. Specifically, the roles of the four dimensions of CSR were considered. Moreover, the fsQCA method provides a fresh approach to research in this area. Financing Entrepreneurship Crowdfunding FsQCA The role...

... research addressing areas such as economics, finance, organizational behavior, HRM, marketing, strategic management, operations management, sociology and psychology (McKenny et al., 2015). In particular, research needs to address how CF benefits entrepreneurs and creators (Ramos, 2014), what...

... innovation and growth, and a key support to them requires correcting “access to finance” market failures. It is questionable if Economic Shocks contribute anything to resolving this fundamental problem. The authors open the supply side debate on anticipated “Brexit Transformation” in the context...

.... Findings Six core beliefs mitigated entrepreneurial attitudes independently from the objectivized institutionalized barriers: know-how needs to be acquired formally; available sources of financing are internal, and scarce; market expertise is in the books, rather than in the market; blending in the host...

... is correlated with a lower probability of acquiring funding from outside sources during the business creation process. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a double-hurdle Cragg model to jointly estimate: first, the decision to acquire external financing; and second, the amount received...

...Andrew Atherton Purpose This paper seeks to understand the dynamics of new venture financing across 20 business start‐ups. Design/methodology/approach A total of 20 cases were explored, via initial discussions with the founder(s), and follow‐up contact to confirm sources of financing acquired...

... this analysis follows in the next section. Knowledge transfer Universities Small to medium‐sized enterprises Financing Buildings England The first moment of translation normally involves a focal actor defining the interests of other actors that are consistent with their own interests...

..., the paper considers aspects other than intensity of use: perceived ease of use and usefulness. Finally, the relevance of technological experience for any economic activity is empirically tested. Worldwide Web Procurement Communication technologies Financing Computer applications Spain...

...Robert T. Hamilton; Mark A. Fox Small owner‐managed firms typically operate with levels of debt, much of it short‐term, which are higher than those found in large companies. This paper investigates the financing preferences of a cross‐section of small firm owners. The findings support the view...

...Kevin McNally The availability of external equity finance is a key factor in the development of technology‐based firms (TBFs). However, although a wide variety of sources are potentially available, many firms encounter difficulties in securing funding. The venture capital community,particularly...

...Margaret Fletcher Commercial banks are the major source of external finance for small firms in the UK. Describes a study which was carried out to investigate how bank managers make decisions on lending to small firms. The study looked at adverse selection (i.e. where a manager turns down a good...