...Chen Li; Kai Yao; Xinyue Yan Purpose Prior research on corporate venture capital (CVC) has primarily examined whether and how intensively firms invest, while paying limited attention to how firms determine the exploratory orientation of their CVC portfolios and how such decisions are shaped...

... sectors beyond technology industries that often characterize corporate venture capital studies. Several novel findings emerged related to the importance of—the industry ecosystem; symbiosis between the founding brand entrepreneur and brand culture; synchronization of investment strategies with an emerging...

...Yi Yang; Tianxu Chen; Lei Zhang Purpose – From the attention-based view, the purpose of this paper is to examine how structural autonomy of a corporate venture capital (CVC) program influences its CVC managers’ investment decisions with regard to investment portfolio diversification. Design...