Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship: Control, trust and confidence in co-operative behaviour

The venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship: Control, trust and confidence in co-operative... This article acknowledges the importance of achieving confidence in partner co-operation within the venture capitalist (VC)-entrepreneur relationship. The entrepreneur and the VC need to balance the level of control and trust building mechanisms so that the optimal level of confidence in partner co-operation can be achieved. The study proposes that the entrepreneur can build trust with the VC (and vice versa) by signaling commitment and consistency, being fair and just, obtaining a good fit with one's partner, and with frequent and open communication. Open and frequent communication acts as a catalyst for the other trust building mechanisms. This theoretical framework acts as a counter weight to most previous studies on the VC-entrepreneur relationship that have emphasized control mechanisms in order to build partner co-operation without sufficient consideration of how this might effect trust and how trust and control jointly effect confidence in partner cooperation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Venture Capital Taylor & Francis

The venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship: Control, trust and confidence in co-operative behaviour

Venture Capital , Volume 3 (2): 21 – Apr 1, 2001
21 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/the-venture-capitalist-entrepreneur-relationship-control-trust-and-wYXfKuvWAd

References (65)

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1464-5343
eISSN
1369-1066
DOI
10.1080/13691060110042763
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This article acknowledges the importance of achieving confidence in partner co-operation within the venture capitalist (VC)-entrepreneur relationship. The entrepreneur and the VC need to balance the level of control and trust building mechanisms so that the optimal level of confidence in partner co-operation can be achieved. The study proposes that the entrepreneur can build trust with the VC (and vice versa) by signaling commitment and consistency, being fair and just, obtaining a good fit with one's partner, and with frequent and open communication. Open and frequent communication acts as a catalyst for the other trust building mechanisms. This theoretical framework acts as a counter weight to most previous studies on the VC-entrepreneur relationship that have emphasized control mechanisms in order to build partner co-operation without sufficient consideration of how this might effect trust and how trust and control jointly effect confidence in partner cooperation.

Journal

Venture CapitalTaylor & Francis

Published: Apr 1, 2001

There are no references for this article.