Tekijä: | Kirsch, D. Goldfarb, B. Gera, A. |
Otsikko: | Form of substance: the role of business plans in venture capital decision making |
Lehti: | Strategic Management Journal
2009 : MAY, VOL. 30:5 p. 487-515 |
Asiasana: | venture capital planning entrepreneurship investments decision making human capital USA |
Kieli: | eng |
Tiivistelmä: | The study investigates a well-known instance of fast decision making under high uncertainty, venture capital (hereafter as: VC) opportunity screening. A sample of 722 funding requests submitted to an American VC firm is analyzed. The influence of the form of the submission and content of business planning documents on VC funding sectors are evaluated as well. Findings reveal the presence of planning documents and some information contained therein being weakly associated with VC funding decisions. The inferential strategy used creates a basis for finding this information independently learned of its inclusion in the business planning documents. |
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