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A Longitudinal Investigation Of Business Angel Relationship Risk Mitigation Strategies Within Investments - A Three-dimensional Approach
- 2015
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Business angel (BA) investing is associated with various types of risks, where relationship risk often is highlighted as being especially critical (Fiet, 1995). Three investor strategies for mitigating relationship risks associated with BA investing in young private firms can be traced in the literature: (i) indirect control through monitoring and rewarding/punishing entrepreneur behavior and output, (ii) direct control through active involvement, and (iii) relying on mutual trust (Van Osnabrugge and Robinson, 2000; Maxwell and Lévesque, 2011). While early research in the field adopted a rather static view on BA categorization (Coveney and Moore, 1998; Sørheim and Landström, 2001), more contemporary research shows that BAs change investment roles across investments (Avdeitchikova, 2008; Lahti, 2011). However, whether BAs behave differently regarding risk mitigation within investments is less explored. This explorative study contributes to the opening of the black box of how BAs may shift risk mitigation strategies over time within single investments.
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- Samuelsson, Mikael, et al.
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Entreprenörskap
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Söderblom, Anna, et al.
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Inside the black box of outcome additionality: Effects of early-stage government subsidies on resource accumulation and new venture performance
- 2015
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Ingår i: Research Policy. - : Elsevier. - 0048-7333. ; 44:8, s. 1501-1512
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the outcome additionality of prestigious early-stage government subsidies. Drawing on arguments from liabilities of newness and certification literatures we develop a mediated model that unpacks the outcome additionality of the subsidy. We hypothesize that subsidized new ventures attract more human and financial capital than their non-subsidized counterparts because the association with a prestigious government organization signals legitimacy of the new venture. Such legitimacy is crucial for attracting qualified employees and financiers. The effect of the access to human and financial capital, in turn, has long-term and substantial influence on performance, whereas the effect of the subsidy itself is marginal and short-lived. Applying a novel matching approach, we compare 130 approved applicants of a prestigious government subsidy with a control group of 154 applications rejected at the very last stage, thereby overcoming some of the selection and endogeneity biases associated with similar studies. The hypothesized model receives strong support by the data. These findings have several implications for government support of new ventures as well as scholars in the field.
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- Söderblom, Anna, et al.
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Opening the black box: triggers for shifts in business angels’ risk mitigation strategies within investments
- 2016
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Ingår i: Venture Capital. - : Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles. - 1369-1066 .- 1464-5343. ; , s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We open up the black box of business angel risk mitigation within investments, exploring triggers that force angels to shift strategies to overcome performance and relationship risks. Primary data were collected from 32 interviews with four matched business angel–entrepreneur dyads. Extensive iterative theory and cross-case comparisons reveal that business angels often shift strategies over the course of an investment cycle due to internal or external context-specific triggers, rather than factors associated with a particular investor, entrepreneur, or investment-related characteristic. Moreover, entrepreneur responses significantly impact business angels’ subsequent risk mitigation strategies. Two triggers emerging particularly strongly from the data were: (i) a shift in the angel’s perception of the entrepreneur’s ability and (ii) the entrance of new investors. We theorize on these findings and derive four novel propositions.
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- Söderblom Saarela, Ellen, 1989-
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Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois : Rereading Byzantine Relations
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Old French anonymous romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to the Greek novel tradition and the Byzantine world. The study focuses on the erotic narrative in the romance and articulations of feminine subjectivity. If we read this text in relation to Byzantine literature, and the Greek novel tradition more generally, we could see new things in the courtly romance. Through the Byzantine relations, the romance constructs room for the female character to be a desiring subject. The two main Byzantine texts that are compared to Partonopeu de Blois are, first, Eumathios Makrembolites’ novel Hysmine and Hysminias, second, the historiographical work the Alexiad, by Anna Komnene, who was a Byzantine princess and historian. Another text of importance is Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche-tale, found in his Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass. Other than these mentioned texts, other ones are discussed in minor scale, such as Theodore Prodromos’ Rhodanthe and Dosikles, Achilles Tatius’ Leukippe and Kleitophon, Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and Andreas Capellanus’ De Amore.The study is outlined in three analytical chapters, based on different themes: touch, gaze, and voice. In the first chapter, focus is put on erotic narratives. In the second chapter, focus is put on the inscription of a feminine desiring gaze into the rhetorical discourse. In the third chapter, focus is put on the voice, and how speaking is connected to power and desire in the narratives.If we consider twelfth-century Byzantine literature and the Greek novel into our reading of Partonopeu de Blois, we could see forms of feminine agency and power that remain obscure if we do not take them into account. Through this sort of fusion of literary influences, feminine subjectivity is articulated in Partonopeu de Blois, which, I demonstrate, should be seen in relation to feminine voices discernible in the Byzantine literary context as well.
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