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Equity investors and entrepreneurs: a conflict perspective

In: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict

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  • Jane Power
  • Bernadette Power
  • Geraldine Ryan

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This chapter explores sources of agency conflicts between investors and entrepreneurs and actions undertaken by investors to mitigate against agency conflict. Given that a principal agent relationship exists between equity investors and entrepreneurs, conflicts arise as the interest of firm investors (and firm insiders) and entrepreneurs are not perfectly aligned. Primary-source data on sources of agency conflicts and actions to mitigate agency conflicts collected in face-to-face interviews with the founders of equity financed high technology manufacturing and knowledge intensive services firms in Ireland are examined.

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  • Jane Power & Bernadette Power & Geraldine Ryan, 2024. "Equity investors and entrepreneurs: a conflict perspective," Chapters, in: Wim Naudé & Bernadette Power (ed.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, chapter 14, pages 237-263, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21252_14
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