A5020682466- Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Family Business Performance and Succession
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Management, Economics, and Public Policy
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Economic Growth and Development
- Teaching and Learning Programming
- Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers
- Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
University of Bergamo
2020-2025
University of Surrey
2008-2018
Newcastle University
2012
London School of Economics and Political Science
2008-2011
This paper investigates the effect on startups' performance played by joint interaction between entrepreneurs' human capital and business angels' contributions. Relying data from Italian Business Angels Network for 77 angels backed companies a counterfactual sample of non-business angel companies, we find that entrepreneur's general specific is major driver probability being funded angels, which positively affects venture's growth, but not its long-term financial performance. In brief,...
Abstract This article documents the results of a research workshop bringing together six perspectives on social entrepreneurship. The idea was to challenge existing concepts economy, firm, and entrepreneurship in order shed new light our theoretical frameworks. first two contributions use macro-perspective discuss notion adaptive societies tragedies disharmonization, respectively. Taking management perspective, next focus limits conventional assumptions theory, particularly human capital...
Abstract The information systems literature has studied digital innovation extensively and focused primarily on its commercial related objectives. Yet, social innovations (DSIs) seek to solve problems, while implementing commercially viable approaches. Drawing from the entrepreneurship using computational science methods, we identify peculiar utilitarian (commercial) collectivistic (social) identity orientations that shape DSI. We use a sample of 292 DSI initiatives Latin America find DSIs...
This article assesses the relationship between experiences of philanthropic venture capital firm’s founding team and subsequent economic, social, total performance. Results indicate that commercial social help economic performance, respectively. However, when pursuing maximization both firms perform best has high levels experience low experience.
Since social entrepreneurship is a relatively young activity, resourcerich actors, like Philanthropic VCs, have considerable influence over how the space matures (Nicholls, 2010b).The resources and strategic advice that PhVCs provide their SEs shape an institutional logic for domain.As such, enhance legitimacy of emerging area entrepreneurship.This monograph's main contribution to delineate current state PhVC, identifying differences with traditional VC financing, identify areas future...
Understanding under which conditions microcredit is used by new, growing ventures becoming increasingly pertinent to scholars. This paper investigates the interplay of use with entrepreneurial capabilities and moderating role institutional development in sub-Saharan Africa. Our findings show that higher constraints are associated microcredit. In addition, we find more where either economic or political institutions less developed. suggest importance existence some type strength must be place...
This paper examines the deal flow and screening process characterizing philanthropic venture capital investment model. The practices explicitly adopted by capitalists are then compared to those employed traditional for-profit understand whether behaviour of two investor categories is same. By surveying population European US capitalists, results suggest that they originate select deals similarly capitalists. However, also adopt different origination criteria which not traditionally used such...
This paper examines how the venture capital (VC) model is applied to philanthropic (PhVC). The key aims of are a) define PhVC and, by transposing its elements, i.e., "capital" and "advice engagement", provide a clear precise definition capitalists (PhVCs); b) formulate four main hypotheses aiming test whether, how, what extent typical for-profit VC model, as described Gompers Lerner (2001), can be considered well. By analyzing secondary sources we report preliminary results which show that...
Relying on gender-role congruity theory, this paper investigates the relationship between gender of top management teams venture philanthropy firms and their business risk-taking orientation. The research also assesses if how experience moderates relationship. Using a combination survey data to capture firm's risk orientation biographical identify managers' experience, it finds that only affects risk-orientation in these firms. Surprisingly, is opposite direction than expected, whereby with...
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This paper explores the creation and development process of an accelerator by a European business university, investigating factors that led university to found its own guided set up in terms choice focal activities governance structure, as well mechanisms through which it creates value for internal external ecosystem. Relying on in-depth case study approach, we conducted several interviews with members accelerator, key stakeholders, partners. Our empirical evidence points existence both...
Philanthropic venture capital (PhVC), like traditional (TVC), provides funding and value added services to portfolio ventures. TVC has a singular identity focus in that its primary goal is economic return, whereas PhVC exhibits dual identity, combining the rationale with primarily social mission. This paper examines human present independent firms offering comparative analysis characterizing firms. Results show characterized by organizational exhibit similar utilitarian, oriented as firms,...