How Do Social Defenses Work? A Resource-Dependence Lens on Technology Ventures, Venture Capital Investors, and Corporate Relationships

By Benjamin L. Hallen, Riitta Katila, Jeff D. Rosenberger. 2014

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? (2018, unknown): “This perspective is further enriched by research that looks at the social defense mechanisms that technology ventures can use to guard against opportunistic behavior by CVCs (Hallen, Katila, & Rosenberger, 2014).”
The Strength of Strong Ties in an Emerging Industry: Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Status Hierarchies and Personal Ties in Venture Capitalist Decision Making: The Strength of Strong Ties (2015, unknown): “Investors transfer information through personal ties built through co-investment activity (Guler and Guillén, 2010a), board relationships (Hallen, Katila, and Rosenberger, 2014), and post-investment support for the portfolio firm such as recruiting or structuring the next round of investment…”
A Review and Road Map of Entrepreneurial Equity Financing Research: Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Crowdfunding, and Accelerators (2017, background): “addition, though social theory tends to define power negatively, the use of power by investors and entrepreneurs does not always generate conflict, but instead can produce favorable outcomes for both parties (Hallen et al., 2014) and can be utilized in a variety of ways (Fleming & Spicer, 2014) such”
Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms (2015, background): “Another practice rooted in history is that VC partners take board seats and ratify key decisions such as ventures’ major resource commitments (Hallen, Katila, and Rosenberger, 2014) even when they are not majority shareholders.”