Human Capital and Social Capital as Moderators of Start-up Support and Start-up Success

Founder’s Human Capital, Entry Strategies and Start-Up Size

The Determinants of Credit Default on Start-Up Firms. Econometric Modelling using Financial Capital, Human Capital and Industry Dynamics Variables

In this paper we investigate the behaviour of credit default in start-up companies. Using a logit regression technique on a panel data of 1430 start-ups and considering a tracking period of three years, we tested the impact on the probability of occurrence of the first credit event in financing agreements due to variables grouped into three categories: financial capital, human capital and indus...

Project Improvement as Start-Up

“We boldly go where no man has gone before”. We want to announce new products and services and use matching supporting information systems. All this more rapidly than before and with higher quality. Thinking about time to market, you will come automatically to the question: “How to improve the process to be able to deliver more rapidly?” But the most important of all is not the process; it is t...

Venture Capital Firms and Entrepreneurship: A Study of Start-Up Companies and Their Funding

Research on what determines the performance of start-up companies is characterized by a sharp debate in the literature of economic sociology and the sociology of the economy. There is one extreme view proposing that in the long run, a rational market takes care of allocating scarce resources such as venture capital funding to the most potentially profitable and exciting business plans. By contr...

Social Capital, Human Capital, and Career Success in Public Rel

The study examines the degree to which demographic, human capital, and social capital variables predicted career success for public relations practitioners in Taiwan. Social capital includes two dimensions: social trust and social network. Human capital includes education, rank, career tenure, and motivation. Results obtained from a sample of 150 public relations practitioners from 16 agencies ...