The external corporate venture capital fund—A valuable vehicle for growth

Corporate venture capital is becoming an important tool for business development. In addition to attractive financial returns corporate venture capital provides strategic benefits which result from establishing strategic alliances between small entrepreneurial companies and large mature corporations. There are several approaches to corporate venture capital. Each approach requires a different level of commitment with respect to corporate resources and yields specific strategic benefits. At present there appears to be a trend for establishing focused corporate venture capital programmes in co-operation with an external venture capital organization. The successful introduction and management of such a programme require that a few important guidelines are observed.     

The impact of venture capital on investee companies: evidence from Spain

This paper examines the impact of venture capital investors on the financial structure of investee companies and the factors relevant to their capital structure, differentiated according to the investor’s public or private nature. This paper contributes to our understanding of the beneficial effects of such investors in response to the funding needs of SMEs and the decisions taken in this respect. The empirical analysis shows that, on average, these investee companies have a lower level of short-term debt than the average Spanish company. It is suggested that the debt structure is related to the growth opportunities presented, the business sector, the geographic location and the duration of the venture capital participation. These results, which are more significant in the case of companies receiving funds from public investors, highlight the effectiveness of the economic function of venture capital.     

风险资本与智力资本协同条件分析与效应检验

运用协同学的原理与方法对风险资本和智力资本的协同条件及变化进行了定性分析,并对二者的协同效应进行了基于风险投资持股比例的门槛效应检验。结果显示:(1)协同效应下智力资本对企业绩效显著地存在“单门槛效应”,风险投资持股比例可以作为判断风险资本与智力资本发生协同作用的条件;(2)当风险投资持股比例高于门槛值时,智力资本会加速提升企业的资产利用效率和市场价值,但这一现象在企业人力资本增值效率方面的表现并不理想。研究结论表明智力资本的增值作用仍有提升空间,但协同效应的发挥需要满足一定的条件,客观上要求创业企业要有针对性的引进风险投资,以便改革、增强并利用智力资本。     

风险投资的地理亲近：对中国风险投资的实证研究

风险投资的地理亲近是指风险投资机构倾向于投资其所在地周边的企业。利用CVSource数据库,搜集2010年至2012年623家风险投资机构对1 020家企业的2 973轮风险投资交易事件信息,采用1：1配伍设计,运用STATA进行relogit回归分析,研究空间距离对投资交易达成可能性的影响。研究结果表明,随着两地空间距离的增加,风险投资交易达成的可能性降低,投资金额对空间距离与投资发生可能性之间关系起倒U形的调节作用,风险投资机构的经验调节二者之间的反向作用,经验丰富的风险投资机构不很在意目标企业的位置,其经验可以在某种程度上消除距离带来的不利影响。     

高新技术企业创业能力、创新类型与融资方式关系研究

创新是企业实现竞争优势的主要方式,而企业创业能力和资本来源是实现创新的保障。本文利用我国164例中小型高新技术企业,检验创业能力、创新类型和融资方式之间的关系。结果表明,机会能力与突破性创新、风险资本融资程度呈正向关系,而运作能力与渐进性创新、债务融资程度呈正向关系,突破性创新方式与风险资本融资程度呈正向关系,与债务融资程度呈负向关系,而渐进性创新与债务融资程度呈正向关系,与风险资本融资呈负向影响关系。     

Private equity: A review and synthesis

The recent international surge in private equity markets has been accompanied by growing interest in its nature and effects. Private equity involves investment in unquoted companies and includes both early stage venture capital and later stage buyouts. The latter, which have been particularly controversial, are our focus. This paper provides a review of the different theoretical approaches that have been deployed to understand this phenomenon. Thereafter, the findings of a large cross section of empirical studies within a range of different national settings are compared and contrasted. Finally, existing themes emerging from – and gaps in – the existing literature and likely future directions are summarized.     

一类合资企业的最优股权结构

本文研究合资企业与母公司的关系,给出了一个理论模型,解释合资企业最优股权结构及投资结构,以及实现最优结构的前提条件。我们的结论是:在某些假设条件下,最优投资结构为1:1,并给出了在这种情况下的最优股权结构。     

风险投资家职业背景与投资业绩

本文以风险投资家的职业背景为研究视角,对比研究金融背景和实业背景风险投资家的投资业绩.借助风险投资项目、风险投资家个人、被投资企业的样本和数据,本文发现:相对于实业背景的风险投资家,金融背景的风险投资家更为成功,表现为所投资项目有更高的IPO退出率.而且,金融背景的风险投资家投资风格更为激进,如更倾向于进行独立、跨地区、大金额的投资.究其背后机理,本文发现金融背景的风险投资家能够利用其金融职业背景更好地支持被投资企业.譬如,有助于被投资企业更快获得下一轮VC融资,在IPO过程中帮助其雇佣声誉更好的承销商,且IPO抑价率相对较低.     

Bargaining on Board Structure at the Initial Public Offering

Going public often creates an agency conflict between the owner-manager and minority shareholders. One possible way to resolve this conflict is through independent board monitoring. But board monitoring does not arise automatically in IPO companies. Owner-managers tend to entrench and capture the board. Analyzing a sample of French IPO firms, we find that the fraction of independent directors declines if the owner-manager is more powerful. However, we find that large pre-IPO non-management shareholders, such as venture capitalists, are successful in bargaining on board composition. These shareholders are successful in opposing the owner-manager and prevent a further reduction in the proportion of independent directors in the board. We also find that these shareholders contract on board composition in shareholder agreements.     

The decline of venture capital

Venture capital is a means of financing the growth of companies with a technologically innovative product, the investor's objective is the realisation of capital gains on the sale of his shareholding. The history of venture capital in the US and the UK is examined. After attracting great interest in the late 1960s and early 1970s, activity in the venture capital field has declined significantly. The reasons for this decline are analysed and it is suggested that a recovery of interest is unlikely.     

中国风险企业内生核心竞争力构建及其实证研究

风险企业核心竞争力的培养和提升问题,是促进中国风险企业健康发展必须解决的一个现实问题。本文通过对风险企业特征的界定,选取41个中国成功风险企业企业家访谈录作为样本。首先采用文本信息挖掘方法,提炼出风险企业内生核心竞争力因子,从一个崭新的角度来研究风险企业核心竞争力,并对每个因子给出具体内涵解释;然后用聚类分析方法,将中国成功风险企业分成四大类,分别给出每一类企业内生核心关键因子构成;最后通过构建BP神经网络模型帮助相关企业合理定位,辅助其建立适合企业发展的内生核心因子,提升企业市场竞争力。     

Impression management techniques in crowdfunding: An analysis of Kickstarter videos using artificial intelligence

Crowdfunding entrepreneurs increasingly use videos to present their venture and themselves to potential investors. To do this effectively, they consciously or unconsciously use several impression management techniques. Based on human and automated (AI-based analysis) of technology-related videos, we determine which impression management techniques help crowdfunding creators to attract a higher number of backers and meet their financial targets. Our results indicate that self-presentation and exemplification techniques are positively associated with crowdfunding success, while intimidation is negatively related to crowdfunding success. Our findings show that automated analysis of videos using advanced AI can replace human coding since measures based on human coding become insignificant when AI-based measures are included in the analysis. This illustrates the insights companies can create through the large scale automated analysis of video content using AI, including outside of a crowdfunding context.     

创业投资管理对企业绩效表现的影响

本文以2004-2008年深圳中小板的上市公司为样本,围绕企业首次公开发行这一重要的创业投资(以下简称"创投")退出方式,研究创投机构对其支持企业上市后经营业绩和股市表现的影响.结果表明,创投支持企业上市时的规模和年龄均显著低于非创投支持企业,且前者在上市首日的抑价水平显著高于后者.从长期表现来看,虽然在锁定期内创投支持企业和非创投支持企业的经营业绩和股市表现没有显著差异,但解禁后前者的业绩下滑幅度显著高于后者,且股票投资收益率更低.进一步研究发现,企业抑价水平和长期绩效下滑幅度与其创投机构的从业年限显著负相关;此外,国有创投机构支持企业的抑价水平及绩效下滑幅度显著低于非国有创投机构支持企业.这些结果验证了Gompers[1]提出的"逐名动机"假说,表明我国创投行业目前存在急功近利的倾向;创投机构为尽快实现投资收益、证明自己的实力会促使其投资企业过早上市,并且过度追求短期业绩而对企业的长期发展造成一定负面影响.     

新企业创业导向的测量与功效:基于中国经验的实证研究

当前关于新企业创业导向的维度及其功效还存在较大的分歧。本文从战略过程视角,依据文献分析初步界定了新企业创业导向的5个维度,然后通过访谈调查和探测性检验,将新企业创业导向维度调整为创新性、风险承担性、先动性3个方面,应用并优化了其测量量表。最后通过150份有效样本,对我国新企业创业导向对企业绩效的直接贡献和间接贡献进行了检验。结果表明,创业导向对新企业绩效确实有显著的直接贡献,但间接作用更为明显。     

The General Manager's Perspective On How Factionalism Can Impact the Behaviors and Effectiveness of Top Managers Inside A Shared Management Joint Venture

This research is focused on joint ventures that are operated with a shared management governance structure. It is argued that the effectiveness of top management inside such a joint venture will be significantly determined by the nature of relations between the managers transferred from the different parent firms. Within that context, emphasis is placed on relational factors that can have an important bearing on the quality of decision making inside the joint venture. Data is collected from top executives at seventy-five shared management joint ventures and the results suggest several significant linkages. First, a growing sense of ``us' versus ``them' factionalism between managers from different parent companies is associated with a heightened propensity for the use of power in an impersonal and manipulative way. Second, those attitudes and behaviors undermine the openness of communications and information exchanges between the managers. Third, as those attitudes and behaviors intensify they have increasingly dysfunctional consequences for the development and execution of high quality decisions, and management effectiveness deteriorates. Moreover, interdependence between the managers aggravates this phenomenon because it strengthens the link between negative attitudes and dysfunctional behavior. The implications for joint venture performance are evident.     

考虑决策者后悔规避的风险投资项目选择方法

在风险投资项目选择过程中,决策者通常是有限理性的,会尽量避免选择可能会令其感到后悔的风险投资项目,而在涉及多个行业的风险投资项目选择过程中如何考虑决策者后悔规避的心理行为因素,这方面的研究特别需要关注。本文提出了一种涉及多个行业的考虑决策者后悔规避的风险投资项目选择方法。在该方法中,首先计算各风险投资项目在不同市场状态下的项目价值;然后,计算各组合市场状态发生的概率;进一步地,构建后悔函数刻画决策者后悔的心理感知,并通过计算不同行业的各风险投资项目的综合效用值得到风险投资项目的排序结果。最后,通过一个算例说明了本文提出方法的可行性与有效性。     

组织支持对人力资源措施和员工绩效的影响

通过两项研究,对中国企业情境下员工感知到的组织支持、人力资源管理措施和个人绩效的关系进行了探讨.采用因子分析和回归分析等方法对来自合资,国有,私有等企业的员工及其主管的问卷调查结果进行了数据分析.结果表明:这些企业的人力资源管理措施可以分为保健措施和激励措施两大类.保健措施包括:员工福利、工作环境改善、工作保障、员工薪酬、员工关怀计划;激励措施包括员工培训、职业发展规划.保健措施和激励措施与感知到的组织支持存在交互作用,共同影响员工个人绩效.保健措施对员工绩效的正向影响作用在低水平感知到的组织支持下更显著,激励措施则在高水平感知到的组织支持下具有更显著的正向影响.     

Parent company dissimilarity and equity international joint venture effectiveness

Based upon existing literature and research findings, the relationships between functional and dysfunctional parent company dissimilarity and equity international joint venture (EIJV) effectiveness are examined. Managers of potential EIJVs face a dilemma. While they want to work with partners that are similar, they need partners that are dissimilar in order to gain from collaborating. The findings of this research are important because they give managers some indications of which kinds of dissimilarities should be avoided because they are dysfunctional and which dissimilarities can be encouraged since they are functional. A cross-national study of 140 EIJVs shows that substantial differences in the primary industries of the parent companies contributed significantly to EIJV effectiveness, whereas substantial differences in the reputations of the parent companies detracted significantly from EIJV effectiveness. Also, cultural differences among the parent companies in individualism–collectivism and in uncertainty avoidance produced a positive impact on EIJV effectiveness. With respect to differences in parent company goals, this study found a consistently negative (although not statistically significant) correlation with EIJV effectiveness. Functionality and dysfunctionality of differences in equity distribution, parent company size, and ownership type were also examined with respect to five common performance measures and a general effectiveness index.     

基于信号传递过程中学习效应的联合创业投资决策

由于创业投资项目的产出具有较强的不确定性,单个创业投资公司受自身资源的制约很难对项目做出准确的评估,通常需要联合其他创业投资公司进行联合投资。文章从信息经济学的视角出发,通过引入创业投资家的风险规避成本、努力成本和战略收益,建立联合创业投资决策的三阶段模型,应用信号传递中的学习效应分析了创业投资中的联合投资决策过程。主导型创业投资公司通过接收跟随型创业投资公司对投资项目的评估信号,利用贝叶斯法则修正先验概率,然后再重新调整对项目的评估,通过联合投资伙伴间信号传递的学习效应寻找联合创业投资的合作区间,进而提高创业投资的成功率。最后,通过算例分析验证了理论模型的有效性。     

基于能力视角的创业者人力资本与新创企业绩效作用机制研究

以往关于创业者人力资本与新创企业绩效之间关系的实证研究一直没有得到一致性的结论,导致创业领域的学者们质疑创业者人力资本是否对新创企业绩效产生影响;然而在创业实践中风险投资家评估项目时却十分重视创业者的人力资本。本研究基于能力视角,尝试揭示人力资本与新创企业绩效的作用机制,论证了创业能力在创业者人力资本和新创企业绩效关系中的中介作用,采用因子分析、多元回归分析等方法,通过对173家新创企业进行问卷调查,对理论假设进行了检验。研究发现:(1)创业者人力资本对新创企业绩效的影响是通过创业能力的中间传导促成的,即创业能力发挥了中介作用;(2)不同类型的人力资本对不同的创业能力发挥作用。