Results 71 to 80 of about 16,922,540 (282)

(Im)perfect Substitutes: Business angels and crowd sourced start-up funding

open access: yesInternational Review of Economics & Finance
This study provides comparative empirical evidence on the fundraising outcomes and the post-funding performances of ventures supported by either business angels or crowd-investors.
Stefano Bonini   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Business angels as a research field [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This book synthesizes 30 years of research on business angels by charting the significant role they play in the financing of entrepreneurial businesses in both developed and emerging economies. The expert group of contributors examine business angels themselves, the evolution of the market and the role of public policy in influencing angel investment ...
Hans Landström, Colin Mason
openaire   +1 more source

Ocean Governance and Marine Conservation: Institutional Work as a Lever for Ocean Sustainability

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ocean governance presents one of the most complex environmental policy challenges of our time, requiring coordinated action across multiple scales, sectors and stakeholder groups. This paper applies institutional work theory to systematically examine how actors create, maintain and disrupt the governance arrangements underpinning ocean ...
Kedar Uttam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Business angels assessment of the role of business financing. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim – evaluate the role of business angels services business financing The object – Business angels’ role in business financing and professional consultations Tasks: 1. Reveal theoretic conceptions of business and financial support. 2.
Kederytė, Milda,
core   +1 more source

Venture Capital and Business Angels and the Creation of Innovative Firms in Poland

open access: yesComparative Economic Research, 2011
The article discusses innovations as a strategic instrument that makes firms and the economy more competitive and drives GDP growth. It shows that their creation is determined by the micro- and macroeconomic factors, including the technical ...
Lucyna Lewandowska
doaj   +1 more source

Harnessing Diversity: Majority‐Group Acculturation Predicts Creativity and Flourishing Over Time

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Creativity and flourishing are core aims of higher education (HE) institutions and government initiatives globally. Large‐scale projects have linked creativity and flourishing with cultural diversity, yet their associations with majority‐group acculturation (i.e., how members of dominant culture groups adopt minority‐cultural elements and/or ...
David Colledge   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assemblages of care: Moral economies, classed labor, and affective exhaustion among Karachi's working middle‐class women

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
wiley   +1 more source

The Peculiarities of Venture Investing in Great Britain

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2019
In the article the performance of the venture investing is considered. The peculiarities of the venture investing are analyzed in general, also — it’s different stages & types.
N. V. Zakharova, A. V. Labudin
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Prediction: Data, Baselines, Explanation, and Causation in Machine Learning for Food Insecurity

open access: yesFood Safety and Health, EarlyView.
The gains from machine learning in nowcasting and forecasting food insecurity are still small and limited and cannot be observed in all countries. This review summarizes the public resources for data, corrects common misconceptions about model requirements, and establishes baseline requirements, explanations, causal inference, and equity in operational
Shabnam Mehboob   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pursuing Leadership on One's Own Terms: A Human Resource Development Perspective on Leadership Aspiration, Identity, and Organizational Influence

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leadership aspiration is not simply a product of ambition or capability, but a dynamic, context‐sensitive phenomenon shaped by how individuals understand leadership and whether pursuing it feels feasible, meaningful, and sustainable. Using phenomenographic analysis of semi‐structured interviews with 23 employees and drawing on Leadership ...
Bishakha Mazumdar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy