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Papers

(The median citation count of Venture Capital is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Shared mental models: a new approach to understanding entrepreneurs’ and investors’ representations	50
How does digital empowerment affect venture capital: an empirical study of Chinese manufacturing listed corporations in Growth Enterprise Market	26
Married at first sight: the process of trust formation throughout the venture capital process during the time of the COVID-19 crisis	23
Private captive fund providers and the likelihood of achieving successful venture capital exits	15
Linear and non-linear patterns of internationalisation and funding in academic spin-offs	11
How private equity-backed buyout contracts shape corporate governance	11
Factors influencing US equity-crowdfunded companies’ ability to survive	10
The debt-equity choice in crowdfunding: a two-method approach	9
Does writing a business plan still matter for searching and obtaining external equity finance?	9
Evolution and trends in entrepreneurial finance: reflections and insights from COVID-19	9
The impact of an entrepreneurial ecosystem on student entrepreneurship financing: a signaling perspective	8
SMEs entrepreneurial finance-based digital transformation: towards innovative entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial performance	7
Predicting the Startup Valuation: A deep learning approach	7
Have credit risk mitigation warrants eased the difficulty and expensive of financing for private enterprises?	7
The impact mechanism of entrepreneurial competency and entrepreneurial model matching on entrepreneurial performance	6
Do the relationship paths between capital structure and investment efficiency depend on information asymmetry? A comparison between emerging and developed countries	6
Challenges to impact investing in a developing country: evidence from Chile	6
Governmental venture capital policies are not all alike: design features in 11 European Countries	6
The moment is now! From digital transformation to environmental performance	6
The dark side of initial coin offering: the case of corporate misconduct	6
Reviewing equity investors’ funding criteria: a comprehensive classification and research agenda	5
The role of the university entrepreneurial ecosystem in entrepreneurial finance: case studies of UK innovation knowledge centres	5
Women and entrepreneurial finance: a systematic review	5
Factors influencing the success and failure of crowdfunding campaigns: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	4
When personality pays: observer rating of personality and financial success of equity crowdfunded startups	4

Entrepreneurs’ human capital and the performance of angel-backed companies	4
The influence of venture capital syndicate size on venture performance	4
What do we know about startup-valuation drivers? A systematic literature review	4
Financing green innovation startups: a systematic literature review on early-stage SME funding	4
The impact of sudden public events and fiscal policy relief on the financing constraints of small and medium enterprises: a quasi-natural experiment during COVID-19	3
Social capital, financial intelligence, and entrepreneurial financial performance: evidence from the post-pandemic challenges	3
Financing entrepreneurial activity in Uruguay: time to default in a public microcredit institution	3
How can women entrepreneurs overcome funding challenges: the role of digitalization and innovation	3
Compensation incentive, misappropriation risk, and startup innovation: the role of corporate venture capital manager in resource transfer	3
The role of personality traits in entrepreneurial finance	3
Social impact venture capital investing: an explorative study	3
Corporate governance in immigrant-founded entrepreneurial firms: ownership heterogeneity and firm performance	3
The role of corporate venture capital on returns to acquiring firms: evidence from the biotechnology industry	2
Getting some fuel from incumbents: bank-FinTech relationships and effects on newcomers’ performance	2
The role of actively open-minded thinking and control orientation in venture capital investment outcomes	2
The influence of differences between venture studios on differences in venture outcomes	2
Prior co-investments and exits: a study on European venture capital syndicates	2
Unanswered questions in entrepreneurial finance	2
Signaling in the context of early-stage equity financing: review and directions	2
Lexical sophistication and crowdfunding outcomes	2
University venture capital in big data, regional and historical perspective: where and why has it arisen?	2
A survey of cross-border venture capital research	2
Lifespans of corporate and independent venture capitalists: a systematic review	2
Tell me something new: startup valuations, information asymmetry, and the mitigating effect of informational updates	2
Technology spillovers and capital gains in corporate venture capital investments: evidence from the biopharmaceutical industry	2
The role of entrepreneur’s experience and company control in influencing the credibility of passion as a signal in equity crowdfunding	2