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The Platforms of Podcasting: Past and Present Open
This article explores the role of digital platforms in podcasting (both past and present) and their impacts on the emergent podcast industry structure, content, and governance. Nieborg and Poell’s theoretical framework for understanding th…
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The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital Open
This paper examines the effect of trust in a micro-economic environment, where trust is clearly exogenous. Using a hand-collected data on European venture capital, we show that the Eurobarometer measure of trust among nations significantly…
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Local Partnering in Foreign Ventures: Uncertainty, Experiential Learning, and Syndication in Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments Open
If partnering with local firms is an intuitive strategy with which to mitigate uncertainty in foreign ventures, then why don’t organizations always partner with local firms, especially in uncertain settings? We address this question by unb…
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Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda Open
The fields of venture capital and private equity are rooted in financing research on capital budgeting and initial public offering (IPO). Both fields have grown considerably in recent times with a heterogenous set of themes being explored.…
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Venture Capital Investments in Europe and Portfolio Firms' Economic Performance: Independent Versus Corporate Investors Open
Using a new European Commission‐sponsored longitudinal dataset—the VICO dataset—we assess the impact of independent (IVC) and corporate venture capital (CVC) investments on the economic performance of European high‐tech entrepreneurial fir…
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The interplay of national distances and regional networks: Private equity investments in emerging markets Open
Integrating social network theory with the literature on national distance, we examine how the investment strategy followed by a private equity (PE) firm in an emerging market is affected by the interplay between two important types of nat…
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Differences in intention to use educational RSS feeds between Lebanese and British students: A multi‑group analysis based on the technology acceptance model Open
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) offers a means for university students to receive timely updates from virtual learning environments. However, despite its utility, only 21% of home students surveyed at a university in Lebanon claim to have …
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Bank Branching Deregulation and the Syndicated Loan Market Open
How do changes in banking regulation affect the syndicated loan market? Because branch networks and loan syndication both enable banks to diversify geographical credit risk, we investigate the staggered implementation of the Riegle–Neal In…
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Lender Trust and Bank Loan Contracts Open
We examine the contractual implications of a lender’s trust for corporate loans. We measure how trusting a lender is using the average trust attitude in the chief executive officer’s ancestral country of origin. We find that banks with tru…
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Intellectual Capital and Firm Performance in the Context of Venture‐Capital Syndication Background in China Open
This paper is intended to investigate the role of Venture‐Capital Syndication (VCS) background in the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and portfolio firm performance (PFP); specifically, this article examines the moderating e…
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Collusion in Markets with Syndication Open
Many markets are syndicated, including those for initial public offerings, club deal leveraged buyouts, and debt issuances; in such markets, each winning bidder invites competitors to join a syndicate to complete production. We show that i…
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Pipeline Risk in Leveraged Loan Syndication Open
Leveraged term loans are typically arranged by banks but distributed to institutional investors. Using novel data, we find that to elicit investors' willingness to pay, arrangers expose themselves to pipeline risk: They have to retain larg…
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The Platforms of Podcasting: Past and Present Open
This article explores the role of digital platforms in podcasting (both past and present) and their impacts on the emergent podcast industry structure, content, and governance. Nieborg and Poell’s (2018) theoretical framework for understan…
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From Syndication to Misinformation: How Undergraduate Students Engage with and Evaluate Digital News Open
To determine how undergraduate students engage with digital news, researchers at Davidson College surveyed 511 incoming first-year students on their news consumption habits and asked them to evaluate screenshots of news stories. The resear…
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The Impact of Credit Default Swap Trading on Loan Syndication Open
We analyze the impact of credit default swap (CDS) trading on bank syndication activity. Theoretically, the effect of CDS trading is ambiguous: on the one hand, CDS can improve risk-sharing and hence be a more flexible risk management tool…
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Content syndication in news aggregators. Towards devaluation of professional journalistic criterio Open
The growing expansion of Internet access and mass-scale usage of social networking platforms and search engines have forced digital newspapers to deal with challenges, amongst which are the need to constantly update news, the increasing co…
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CDS Trading Initiation, Information Asymmetry, and Dividend Payout Open
This study uses an information-asymmetry framework to examine the effect of initiation of credit default swaps (CDS) trading on firm dividend payout policy. We find evidence that CDS initiation is associated with increasing dividends, whic…
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Financing Small Businesses: From Venture Capital to Crowdfunding Open
Startups and small businesses are facing many challenges in terms of financing their activities. These types of companies do not have the possibility to access capital market or to make IPO or to borrow money from banks like big, mature or…
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Enterprises’ R&D Investment, Venture Capital Syndication and IPO Underpricing Open
Based on the data of companies that got ChiNext listed from 2009 to 2018, this paper empirically studies the relationship among R&D investment, venture capital (VC) syndication and IPO underpricing. It is found that there is a significant …
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Overcoming political risk in developing economies through non-local debt Open
Infrastructure investments are essential in generating sustainable development but also involve extensive political risk and potentially unreliable local partners. We study how banks financing such investments use syndication with non-loca…
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Podcasting 101: Top Tips on Educational Podcasting Open
Medical education has seen significant progress and innovation over the last decade.Today's students utilise a variety of contemporary devices that have replaced the good old pencil and pen.During preclinical years, the students carry arou…
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How Does Network Structure Impact Follow-On Financing through Syndication? Evidence from the Renewable Energy Industry Open
Venture capital (VC) is a critical source of finance for renewable energy ventures. Importantly, VC investments are made in rounds. In higher rounds: (1) the availability of capital drops—we find that less than 50% of renewable energy vent…
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Venture Capital Syndication Network Structure of Public Companies: Robustness and Dynamic Evolution, China Open
Venture capital plays a vital role in boosting economic growth by providing an inexhaustible impetus for economic innovation and development. We use all the joint venture capital events of Chinese listed companies in the past 10 years to d…
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Academic institutions and the changing entrepreneurial finance landscape Open
Universities have emerged as central players in the fast-changing entrepreneurial finance landscape. This editorial introduces and describes the recent changes in academia and the entrepreneurial finance landscape. It then investigates the…
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How Do Venture Capitals Build Up Syndication Ecosystems for Sustainable Development? Open
When the resources of a focal organization are limited, strengthening the capability of sustainable performance by building up an ecosystem through cooperation is a good choice. When venture capital firms invest in sustainable projects, du…
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What determines Venture Capital investment decisions? Evidence from the emerging VC market in Egypt Open
The decision of a venture capitalist to commit capital in a new risky business is a complex decision. Investors need to consider a number of important criteria simultaneously. Based on the postulates of signaling theory and the investment …
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They Are Not Mistaken! Why Passive Investments Matter Open
This paper is devoted to the explanation of the large share of passive investments in companies’portfolios and their relationship with environmental factors. We utilized duality framework to explain underlined processes of corporate ventur…
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adPerf Open
Monetizing websites and web apps through online advertising is widespread in the web ecosystem, creating a billion-dollar market. This has led to the emergence of a vast network of tertiary ad providers and ad syndication to facilitate thi…
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Are Distances Barriers to Sustainability for Venture Capital Syndication? Open
This study aimed to explore how both geographic and industry distances, as potential barriers, affect the sustainability for venture capital (VC) syndication. Specifically, we examined the influences of initial public offering (IPO) activi…
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Syndication network associates with specialisation and performance of venture capital firms Open
The Chinese venture capital (VC) market is a young and rapidly expanding financial subsector. Gaining a deeper understanding of the investment behaviours of VC firms is crucial for the development of a more sustainable and healthier market…