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Who Are You Hanging Out With? The Conditional Importance of Investment Managers’ Personal Reputation in the Formation of Venture Capital Syndication Ties

For a long time, scholars have emphasized that firms’ reputation is central to the formation of inter-firm partnerships. In this paper by Massimo G. Colombo, Annalisa Croce, and Elisa Ughetto, they test their hypotheses on a pairwise dataset of 1686 realized and 14, 395 counterfactual initial syndication ties between VC managers.

Authors and affiliations:

● Massimo G. Colombo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
● Annalisa Croce, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
● Elisa Ughetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Access the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joms.70156?campaign=wolearlyview

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