Signaling in Venture Capitalist—New Venture Team Funding Decisions: Does it Indicate Long–Term Venture Outcomes?

By Lowell W. Busenitz, James O. Fiet, Douglas D. Moesel. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Signaling by early stage startups: US government research grants and venture capital funding (2018, background): “Yet the successful completion of this costly process brings with it two features that are coveted in the signaling literature: a veracious signal (Busenitz et al., 2005) that is accompanied by a valuable interorganizational tie (Park & Mezias, 2005).”
Which updates during an equity crowdfunding campaign increase crowd participation? (2016, positive): “Signalers deliberately send positive signals to information outsiders to reduce information asymmetries and cause a reaction by the receiver, for example, the investment in a company (Certo 2003; Busenitz et al. 2005).”
Social identity and signalling success factors in online crowdfunding (2016, background): “The importance of comments revealed in our study contributes to signalling theory by adding that social communication and financial investment signals cannot be separated as previous research (Ahlers et al., 2015; Busenitz et al., 2005; Mohammadi et al., 2014) focusing more on the latter has done.”
Signaler Credibility, Signal Susceptibility, and Relative Reliance on Signals: How Stakeholders Change their Evaluative Processes After Violation of Expectations and Rehabilitative Efforts (2017, background): “The second type of noise is due to the behavior of the signaler—that is,whether the signaler is behaving in a way that could, intentionally or unintentionally, compromise the credibility of a signal (e.g., Arthurs, Busenitz,Hoskisson, & Johnson, 2009;Busenitz et al., 2005).”
Better Together? Signaling Interactions in New Venture Pursuit of Initial External Capital (2016, background): “Many studies on new venture signaling assume that signals operate in isolation from one another such that the combined effects are additive (Busenitz et al., 2005; Filatotchev & Bishop, 2002); some have examined how new venture signals may be contingent on certain factors or work together in…”
Equity retention and social network theory in equity crowdfunding (2016, neutral): “The amount of equity retained by a company’s founders is traditionally considered a positive signal to external investors, in the IPO context and in VC funding (Busenitz et al. 2005).”
Signaling Theory: A Review and Assessment (2011, background): “…at es th e re la ti on sh ip b et w ee n si gn al er a nd r ec ei ve r 52 Journal of Management / January 2011 Cohen and Dean (2005) discuss the genuineness and suspiciousness of different signals and Busenitz et al. (2005) use the term veracity, both of which speak to the signaler’s integrity.”
The Use of Signals in New-Venture Financing: A Review and Research Agenda (2021, background): “VC Investors The term venture capitalists refers to the group of financial intermediaries that raise capital from other investors to directly invest in new ventures (Busenitz et al., 2005).”