Angel investor characteristics that determine whether perceived passion leads to higher evaluations of funding potential

By C. Mitteness, Richard Sudek, Melissa S. Cardon. 2012

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Unraveling the “passion orchestra” in academia (2016, background): “Further, entrepreneurial passion is instrumental in the entrepreneurial process as it exerts a positive influence on important resource providers, such as investors and employees (Breugst et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2009; Mitteness et al., 2012; Sudek, 2006).”
Entrepreneurial passion diversity in new venture teams: An empirical examination of short- and long-term performance implications (2020, background): “, 2015), or funding outcomes (e.g. Chen et al., 2009; Mitteness et al., 2012) and only a few focus on team or firm performance (see Drnovsek et al.”
The Use of Signals in New-Venture Financing: A Review and Research Agenda (2021, background): “Since most existing literature emphasizes factors such as commitment (Bruton et al., 2009), age (Mitteness et al., 2012), and type of investor (Ebbers & Wijnberg, 2012), little scholarly attention has been paid to aspects that may be more directly related to the signal interpretation of prospective…”
Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation (2013, background): “Moreover, passion has been associated with entrepreneurs' ability to raise funds from investors (Cardon et al., 2009b; Mitteness et al., 2012; Sudek, 2006), and to hire and motivate key employees (Cardon, 2008).”
Passion for what? Expanding the domains of entrepreneurial passion☆ (2017, background): “Entrepreneurial passion is also contagious to other key stakeholders of the firm, such as employees (Breugst et al., 2012; Cardon, 2008), and investors (Cardon et al., 2018; Chen et al., 2009; Mitteness et al., 2012; Murnieks et al., 2016).”
What matters, matters differently: a conjoint analysis of the decision policies of angel and venture capital investors (2014, background): “While passion scholars also acknowledged the importance of passion to angel investors (Mitteness et al. 2012; Sudek 2006), how cognitive and affective passion affect funding decisions of angel investors remains unknown.”
The power of positivity? The influence of positive psychological capital language on crowdfunding performance (2018, background): “In particular, entrepreneurial passion is a positive emotional display that has been shown to influence fundraising performance in angel investing and crowdfunding (e.g., Li et al., 2017; Mitteness et al., 2012).”
Actions Speak Louder than Words: How Figurative Language and Gesturing in Entrepreneurial Pitches Influences Investment Judgments (2019, background): “…may shift to an intuitive mode of processing and focus on bodily cues and any other information that they can glean from the person’s presence and performance to anchor their judgments and strengthen their beliefs about the investment potential (Huang & Pearce, 2015; Mitteness et al., 2012).”
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Review, Synthesis, and Agenda for Future Research (2019, methodology): “Examining whether angel investors’ perceptions of CEOs perceived entrepreneurial passion influenced their evaluations of the CEOs funding potential, Mitteness et al. (2012) developed a short twoitem other-rated scale of perceived passion.”