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The Social Capital of Venture Capitalists and Its Impact on the Funding of Start-Up Firms [PDF]

open access: yes
How does the social capital of venture capitalists (VCs) affect the funding of start-ups? Extant entrepreneurship literature conceptualizes a substitute effect between the social and financial capital that new firms attain from their investors.
Alexy, O.   +3 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study

open access: yesJournal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 2018
The goal of the current paper is to verify how an entrepreneur’s structural, relatonal and cognitve social capital levels are perceived by young people in Poland.
Paweł Ziemiański
doaj   +1 more source

Start-up’s Performance: An Empirical Study on Dynamic Capabilities Under The Contributions of Bricolage and Social Capital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Objectives: Dynamic capabilities studies have emphasised how firms determine, integrate, build and reconfigure internal and external resources to adapt to rapidly changing business environment (Teece et al., 1997).
Huynh, Thanh, Patton, Dean
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Female directorship on boards and corporate sustainability policies: Their effect on sustainable development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We aim to explore whether board gender diversity, specifically women institutional directors, improves the sustainability development and stakeholder engagement of listed firms by affecting corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies.
López Zamora, Blanca   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurship and Social Capital: Evidence from a Colombian Business Incubator

open access: yesInnovar: Revista de Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales, 2014
This paper contributes to the important body of research on entrepreneurship and social capital. Most previous work on social capital and business incubators has analyzed how the structure of personal networks (measured by network size or density) and ...
Ignacio Castro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scaling Social Impact [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
It is said that a good metaphor frees the mind . . . then imprisons it. The metaphor of business as a model for the nonprofit sector seems to be tracing this proverbial path.
Mark R. Kramer
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