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Venture capital: The effect of local and global social ties on firm performance

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  • Katja Bringmann
  • Thomas Vanoutrive
  • Ann Verhetsel

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Firm financing literature has been dominated by a relatively ‘undersocialized’ and ‘aspatial’ view. We approach this gap by applying a social capital and economic geography informed lens to financial transactions. We explore if and how the early growth performance of venture capital backed organizations varies with the structural and physical location of their investors in syndication networks. Drawing on longitudinal data of Belgian firms and their venture capital investors, it is demonstrated that inter‐firm relational ties and, especially cross‐border linkages expand organizational outcome. In that, we show that not only social relations shape financial activity, but that also spatial patterns of co‐investment networks deserve notice. La literatura financiera de las empresas ha estado dominada por una visión relativamente ‘subsocializada’ y ‘espacial’. Este artículo aborda esta brecha de conocimiento aplicando una perspectiva basada en el capital social y la geografía económica a las transacciones financieras. El artículo explora si el rendimiento del crecimiento inicial de las organizaciones respaldadas por capital de riesgo varía en función de la ubicación estructural y física de sus inversores en las redes de sindicación y de que forma varía. A partir de datos longitudinales de empresas belgas y de sus inversores en capital riesgo, se demuestra que los vínculos relacionales entre empresas y, especialmente, los vínculos transfronterizos, amplían los resultados organizativos. En este sentido, se demuestra que no sólo las relaciones sociales dan forma a la actividad financiera, sino que también los patrones espaciales de las redes de coinversión merecen atención. 企業の財務に関する既存の研究論文は、ほとんどが社会的な視点に乏しく、非空間的な観点から論述されている。本稿では、社会関係資本と経済地理に関する知識を加えた観点から財務取引を検討することにより、この欠点に取り組む。提携ネットワークにおける出資者の構造的および物理的な立地によって、ベンチャーキャピタルから投資を受けている組織の設立当初の成長パフォーマンスが変わるか否か、またどのように変わるのかを検討する。ベルギーの企業とその企業のベンチャー出資者の縦断的データから、企業間の関係、特に国境を超えた関係が組織的な成果を拡大することが示される。その中で、我々は社会関係が財務活動を決めるだけでなく、協調投資の空間的パターンには注目する価値があることを示す。

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  • Katja Bringmann & Thomas Vanoutrive & Ann Verhetsel, 2018. "Venture capital: The effect of local and global social ties on firm performance," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 97(3), pages 737-755, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:97:y:2018:i:3:p:737-755
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12261
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