How entrepreneurs seduce business angels An impression management approach / Parhankangas, Annaleena
By: Parhankangas, Annaleena
Material type: ArticlePublisher: 2014Description: 543-564Subject(s): Entrepreneurial Finance | Business Angels | Impression Management In: Journal of Business VenturingSummary: This paper develops and tests a set of hypotheses concerning how impression management strategies deployed by entrepreneurs affect their likelihood to secure funding. We test our propositions on a sample of nascent ventures seeking business angel funding in the New York metropolitan area. Our results suggest that business angels prefer investment proposals characterized by the moderate use of positive language, moderate levels of promotion of innovation, supplication and blasting of competition, and high levels of opinion conformity.Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Articles | Ahmedabad (HO) | (Browse shelf) | Vol. 29, Issue. 4 | Available | 017995 |
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This paper develops and tests a set of hypotheses concerning how impression management strategies deployed by entrepreneurs affect their likelihood to secure funding. We test our propositions on a sample of nascent ventures seeking business angel funding in the New York metropolitan area. Our results suggest that business angels prefer investment proposals characterized by the moderate use of positive language, moderate levels of promotion of innovation, supplication and blasting of competition, and high levels of opinion conformity.
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