Bringing the Context Back In: Settings and the Search for Syndicate Partners in Venture Capital Investment Networks

By Olav Sorenson, Toby E. Stuart. 2008

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Struggling with social capital: Pakistani women micro entrepreneurs’ challenges in acquiring resources (2017, background): “Second, although the enabling and constraining effects of social capital are acknowledged (Sorenson and Stuart 2008), whether contextual factors lead to the dominance of constraining or enabling mechanisms is less well understood.”
Are Syndicates the Killer App of Equity Crowdfunding? (2015, background): “Syndication enables a venture capital firm to diversify their portfolio while providing incentives for due diligence and sufficient financing.(8) Syndication also provides a “second opinion” as other experienced venture capital firms often conduct their own due diligence.”
The effects of venture capital syndicate diversity on earnings management and performance of IPOs in the US and UK: An institutional perspective ☆ (2012, background): “distant relationship in both industry and geography (Sorenson and Stuart, 2008).”
Networks, Propinquity, and Innovation in Knowledge-intensive Industries (2009, background): “Moreover, evidence that shows proximity’s effects on network tie formation is mounting (Powell et al., 2005; Sorenson, 2005; Sorenson and Stuart, 2008).”
Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms (2015, background): “fads (Guler, 2007; Sorenson and Stuart, 2008).”
Partner Selection Decisions in Interfirm Collaborations: The Paradox of Relational Embeddedness (2010, methodology): “Similarly, as all investors potentially play a role in advising and contributing non-financial resources to the target company, lead investors may worry about the quality of syndicate partners (and vice versa) (Meuleman et al., 2009b; Sorenson and Stuart, 2008).”
The wisdom of the crowd in funding: information heterogeneity and social networks of crowdfunders (2018, background): “Social ties between investors are formed every time they are attracted to the same target company (Sorenson and Stuart 2008; Ter Wal et al. 2016).”
The interplay of need and opportunity in venture capital investment syndication (2010, background): “While potential syndicate partners may obtain information about their peers from specialized press or personal contacts (Sorenson and Stuart, 2008), objective, rational processing of such information is difficult due to its inferential nature and high opportunity cost of obtaining it in a timely…”
Determinants of Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments in Emerging and Developed Economies: The Effects of Relational and Institutional Trust (2015, background): “…specifically the growing tendency for foreign VCs to team up in a syndicate with domestic partners to take advantage of their local expertise and to ensure interaction (Lerner 1994; Mowery et al. 1996; Dai and Nahata 2013; Manigart et al. 2002, 2006; Nahata et al. 2013; Sorenson and Stuart 2008).”
Catalyzing Strategies and Efficient Tie Formation: How Entrepreneurial Firms Obtain Investment Ties (2012, background): “Although a few studies have asserted that existing investors “invite” potential investors to form new investment ties (e.g., Sorenson & Stuart, 2008), these studies have not examined either the actual tie formation process or the alternative explanation that venture executives play a primary role…”
Social capital of venture capitalists and start-up funding (2012, background): “In particular, VCs are strongly linked with each other through the joint investments they have made in the past (Bygrave 1987; Hopp 2010; Sorenson and Stuart 2001, 2008).”