Economics & Finance

When capital does not matter in business creation

by Kim Marie Bischoff Have you ever thought about starting your own business? If yes, have you thought about money that you need for the business? Have you maybe even…

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Strategic Responses to Crisis

A Virtual Special Issue edited by Matthias Wenzel, Sarah Stanske, and Marvin Lieberman Currently, the pandemic crisis is affecting the lives of people and organizations around the world. As the…

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Are Activist Investors the Villains?

by Daniel Keum Are activist investors the villains? In the movie “Pretty Woman (1990),” Richard Gere plays a corporate raider who takes over a struggling shipping company. The climax of…

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How Do Investors React to Covert Political Activity of Corporations?

by Aija Leiponen   Corporate political activity in the United States has been a growing and increasingly controversial phenomenon following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizen’s United case (2010).…

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Research Chatter 3: Can Big Companies Succeed as Venture Capitalists?

by Charlie Williams   This month we meet up in person at the SMS conference in Denver. In our free-wheeling, face to face discussion we talk about research on corporate…

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Research Chatter 1: Venture Accelerators

by Aija Leiponen We discuss the latest research on seed accelerators for new founding teams. What are they? Do they actually accelerate new ventures? What are researchers finding about how…

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