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Venture Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
We examine the impact on venture capital (VC) involvement and monitoring on their portfolio companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. Exploiting the timing of VC exit, we find that CSR performance of VC-backed companies improves after the exit of VC.
Cheng Cheng, Yongqiang Chu, Zijie Deng, Bo Huang   +3 more
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Do venture capital firms promote corporate social responsibility?

International Review of Economics & Finance, 2021
Abstract We use venture capital firms, or VCs, in China from 2011 to 2017 to examine the treatment effect of their investments on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities at the firms in which they invest (invested firms). Several results are noted.
Jiu-Jin Li, Chang Xu, Hung-Gay Fung, Kam C. Chan   +3 more
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Philanthropic Venture Capital: Can the Key Elements of Venture Capital Be Applied Successfully to Social Enterprises?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper examines how the venture capital (VC) model is applied to philanthropic venture capital (PhVC). The key aims of the paper are a) to define PhVC and, by transposing its key elements, i.e., "capital" and "advice and engagement", to provide a clear and precise definition of philanthropic venture capitalists (PhVCs); b) to formulate four main ...
Mariarosa Scarlata, Luisa Alemany
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Social capital as it pertains to international ventures in Asia

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2018
Social capital was investigated in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (abbreviated as Laos), and findings were compared and contrasted to social capital practices in Confucian contexts (in particular China). We found horizontal social capital between heterogeneous groups in Theravada Buddhist Laos to be relatively accessible compared to the more ...
Bjarne Sorensen, Bo Bernhard Nielsen
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Community Social Capital and the Venture Gestation Process

2019
Community social capital is increasingly recognized as an important regional resource for spurring entrepreneurial activity. A nascent but growing body of work has begun to link community social capital to entrepreneurship, focusing largely on outcomes such as rates of new venture creation. This chapter emphasizes ways in which community social capital
Siddharth Vedula, Casey J. Frid
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Social entrepreneurship and philanthropic venture capital financing

Business Strategy & Development
AbstractPhilanthropic venture capitalists (PhVCs) are instrumental in providing access to capital to social enterprises. Our research aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of PhVCs in India. Using deals data for Indian startups from 2014 to 2020, we observe that, on average, 15% of the startup deals are PhVC‐funded, and the majority of these deals ...
Nivedita Sinha, Shreya Biswas
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ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPITAL: EXAMINING LINKAGES IN HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL OF NEW VENTURES

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 2012
Despite advancing extant theory, studies have tended to oversimplify the roles of human and social capital influences on nascent activity by underemphasizing the importance of motivational factors, construct dimensionality and context. This study seeks to extend previous efforts by investigating the relationship between various forms of human and ...
MARK T. SCHENKEL, RODNEY R. D'SOUZA, CHARLES H. MATTHEWS   +2 more
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Family Social Capital, Venture Preparedness, and Start-Up Decisions

Family Business Review, 2009
Using insights from the resource-based view, social capital, and network theories, the authors develop a model of how family social capital, as well as an entrepreneur’s knowledge capital and external social capital, influences the venture creation process. The model is tested on a sample of 85 nascent Hispanic entrepreneurs.
Chang, E. P. C., Memili, E., Chrisman, J. J., Kellermanns, F. W., Chua, J. H.   +4 more
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Signaling in joint venture capital: a social network perspective

Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2017
PurposeBased on the theory of social networks, it is crucial to enhance information superiority through joint venture capital (VC). The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of different roles’ structural and relational embeddedness on the information superiority of joint VC alliances.Design/methodology/approachThe authors design the multiple
Jing Wu, He Li, Haichao Zheng, Yun Xu
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Social venture capital & venture philantropy : modelli e processi d'investimento nell'innovazione sociale

2010
Sull'onda dell'interesse crescente per le potenzialità di sviluppo e crescita associate all'affermarsi di una cultura imprenditoriale al servizio di questioni di rilevanza sociale, nuovi trend stanno emergendo sul fronte del finanziamento e investimento a supporto dell'iniziativa privata nei settori sociali.
PERRINI, FRANCESCO, VURRO, CLODIA
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