Funding and investors – The ASQ Blog

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ASQ Interview

Xia, Steensma, and Bai (2023). When Do Collaborative First Moves Diminish Nationality-Based Homophilic Preferences? An Examination Of Chinese Venture Capital Investment Syndicates

By ASQ blogNovember 11, 20240

Why would a Chinese venture capital firm be shunned by its compatriots for teaming up with Americans? Wei Xia, Kevin Steensma, and Xiaoou ...

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ASQ Interview

Yan, Almandoz & Ferraro (2021). The Impact of Logic (In)Compatibility: Green Investing, State Policy, and Corporate Environmental Performance

By maggscascaddenDecember 6, 20211

Shipeng Yan, John Almandoz, and Fabrizio Ferraro on green investing and state policy, and how they answer the growing complaint that institutional logics ...

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ASQ Interview

Zhang and Guler (2020). How to Join the Club: Patterns of Embeddedness and the Addition of New Members to Interorganizational Collaborations

By Hui SunApril 5, 20210

Lei Zhang and Isin Guler on how venture capital syndicates decide who joins the club, and how Zhang carved one big dissertation question ...

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ASQ Interview

Ter Wal, Alexy, Block & Sanders (2016). The Best of Both Worlds: The Benefits of Open-specialized and Closed-diverse Syndication Networks for New Ventures’ Success

By amyzhaodingAugust 9, 20180

Can a network deliver brokerage's diverse information and closure's trust at the same time? Anne ter Wal, Oliver Alexy, Jorn Block, and Philipp ...

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ASQ Interview

ZHELYAZKOV (2017). INTERACTIONS AND INTERESTS: COLLABORATION OUTCOMES, COMPETITIVE CONCERNS, AND THE LIMITS TO TRIADIC CLOSURE

By winnieyjiangApril 25, 20180

Pavel Zhelyazkov explains why an intermediary will happily introduce a partner to a mediocre competitor but not to a stellar one, and what ...

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ASQ Podcast

Greenberg & Mollick (2017): Activist Choice Homophily and the Crowdfunding of Female Founders

By amyzhaodingMay 10, 20170

Ethan Mollick joins the podcast to explain a puzzle he and Jason Greenberg chased: why women outperform men on Kickstarter, and why they ...

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ASQ Interview

Rider (2009). Constraints on the Control Benefits of Brokerage: A Study of Placement Agents in U.S. Venture Capital Fundraising

By Pete AcevesJune 9, 20160

Brokerage research celebrates the returns to spanning structural holes while ignoring what brokers spend to earn them. Christopher Rider makes the case for ...

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ASQ Interview

Rider (2012). How Employees’ Prior Affiliations Constrain Organizational Network Change: A Study of U.S. Venture Capital and Private Equity

By Pete AcevesJune 2, 20161

Network scholars study how ties form, rarely how they end. Christopher Rider considers whether interorganizational relationships belong to organizations or to the people ...

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ASQ Interview

Huang and Pearce (2015). Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

By cacevesumichFebruary 4, 20161

How do angel investors decide when outcomes are unknowable? Laura Huang and Jone Pearce recount building a mixed-methods paper around gut feel, the ...

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ASQ Interview

Pahnke, Katila, & Eisenhardt (2015). Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms

By mgmauskapfOctober 29, 20152

Emily Cox Pahnke, Riitta Katila, and Kathleen Eisenhardt describe turning a dissertation into a study of how funding partners' institutional logics shape young ...

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ASQ Interview

Pollock, Lee, Jin, & Lashley (2015). (Un)tangled: Exploring the Asymmetric Coevolution of New Venture Capital Firms’ Reputation and Status

By mgmauskapfJune 29, 20150

Timothy Pollock got tired of scholars using status and reputation interchangeably, often with identical measures. He and coauthors Peggy Lee, Kyuho Jin, and ...

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ASQ Interview

Pontikes (2012). Two Sides of the Same Coin: How Ambiguous Classification Affects Multiple Audiences’ Evaluations

By colloqAugust 3, 20140

Elizabeth Pontikes drew on her years positioning software companies to study how ambiguous market categories play to different audiences, and she recounts finding ...

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