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CALL FOR PAPERS Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance Special Issue: Embracing entrepreneurial funding innovations Cristiano Bellavitis, Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Russia [email protected] Igor Filatotchev, Cass Business School, City University London, UK and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria [email protected] Dzidziso Samuel Kamuriwo, Cass Business School, City University London, UK [email protected] Tom Vanacker, Ghent University, Belgium Tom [email protected] 1

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Special Issue: Embracing entrepreneurial funding innovations

!Cristiano Bellavitis, Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Russia

[email protected]

Igor Filatotchev, Cass Business School, City University London, UK and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

[email protected] !Dzidziso Samuel Kamuriwo, Cass Business School, City University London, UK

[email protected]

Tom Vanacker, Ghent University, Belgium Tom [email protected] !

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Entrepreneurial firms are the backbone of economies and drivers of both economic development and

employment. Young and innovative entrepreneurial firms are germane to the creation, development and

growth of new technologies, industries and markets and create the most jobs. Yet, these firms often need

considerable amounts of financial capital to sustain their growth. Over the last decades, the en-

trepreneurial finance literature emphasized the importance of business angels and venture capital in-

vestors.

However, despite the relevance of angel and venture capital financing, in recent years, a whole

set of relatively new sources of financing have emerged (e.g., Bruton, Khavul, Siegel and Wright,

2014). Entrepreneurs in science and technology start-ups can raise financing from numerous sources,

such as accelerators and incubators, proof-of-concept centers, university-based seed funds, crowdfund-

ing platforms, and IP-backed financial instruments. Moreover, contrary to common accounts of startup

activity, research further shows that new entrepreneurial firms heavily rely on external debt sources,

including bank financing (e.g., Robb and Robinson, 2014). Others argue that entrepreneurs can create

and grow flourishing firms without raising the external financing that other firms consider to be essen-

tial, for instance, through financial bootstrapping and bricolage (e.g., Baker and Nelson, 2005; Winborg

and Landström, 2001).

Considering the importance of entrepreneurial firms for the overall economic system, there is a

need for research on these distinct sources of financing to understand how they impact start-ups (Fras-

er, Bhaumik and Wright, 2015). Extant research has only skimmed the surface in terms of exploring

how: (a) entrepreneurs rely on these relatively new sources of financing (such as crowdfunding), (b)

entrepreneurs use more traditional sources of financing (such as bank debt), which are typically as-

sumed to be unavailable to early stage entrepreneurial firms, and (c) entrepreneurs use creative strate-

gies to realize “more with less”.

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Furthermore, the entrepreneurial finance literature is largely segmented by the source of financ-

ing from which entrepreneurs obtain their financing. As highlighted by Cosh, Cumming and Hughes

(2009) entrepreneurial finance studies focus, almost exclusively, on a single source of financing. Large-

ly separate streams of literature have emerged in bank finance, lease finance, business angel finance,

venture capital, private equity, supplier finance and more recently, crowdfunding. However, in practice,

entrepreneurs often raise financing from a multitude of sources. Hence, we need a better understanding

of how these various sources of financing interact and how different combinations support (or harm)

entrepreneurial firms (Hanssens, Deloof and Vanacker, 2015).

!Research topics

The special issue intends to further our knowledge of the latest trends in entrepreneurial finance, in-

cluding the emergence of relatively new sources of finance, generally ignored sources of financing and

strategies entrepreneurs can implement to realize more with less need for external financing. We also

would like to explore how distinct sources of financing interrelate with each other and with more “clas-

sic” sources of entrepreneurial financing. We welcome papers adopting a multitude of methods, both

empirical and theoretical contributions. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following:

- What is the effect of being embedded in multiple funding networks to firm outcomes?

- Are new sources of entrepreneurial financing going to replace or complement venture capital and

angel finance? If so, how?

- For which firms each funding source is more accessible?

- What can firms do to increase the probability of raising new sources of entrepreneurial financing?

- When and for which type of companies is each funding source more advantageous in boosting per-

formance (e.g. survival, growth, M&A, IPO)?

- And what is the ideal combination of funding sources for entrepreneurial firms performance?

- How can entrepreneurs grow their firms without raising additional external financing?

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- Are there geographical differences in relation to entrepreneurial financing?

- What sources of financing are available in developing countries?

!Paper submission procedure

All submissions will be subject to the standard review process followed by Venture Capital: An In-

ternational Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance. All manuscripts must be original, unpublished works

that are not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers for the Special Issue should be prepared and

formatted according to the Journal’s Instructions to Contributors [http://www.tandfonline.com/action/

authorSubmission?journalCode=tvec20&page=instructions] and should be sent as a Word file to Cris-

tiano Bellavitis at [email protected]

!Key dates

The deadline for the submission of papers is 31 December 2015. We expect the following timing in

between initial submission and publication of the Special Issue:

- 31st of March 2016: Completion of first round reviews

- 30th of April 2016: Decisions notified to authors

- 30th of September 2016: Revised submissions due

The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in early 2017. To support the development of papers, the

editorial team will be available at EURAM (Warsaw), AOM (Vancouver) and EGOS (Athens).

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References

Baker, T., & Nelson, R. E. (2005). Creating something from nothing: Resource construction through entrepreneurial bricolage. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50(3), 329-366.

Bruton, G., Khavul, S., Siegel, D. and Wright, M. (2015), New financial alternatives in seeding entre-preneurship: Microfinance, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer innovations. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 39: 9–26.

Cosh, A., Cumming, D., & Hughes, A. (2009). Outside entrepreneurial capital. The Economic Journal, 119(540), 1494-1533.

Fraser, S., Bhaumik, S. K., & Wright, M. (2015). What do we know about entrepreneurial finance and its relationship with growth? International Small Business Journal, 33(1), 70-88.

Hanssens, J., Deloof M., & Vanacker, T. (2015). Underexplored issues in entrepreneurial finance. In D. B. Audretsch, C. S. Hayter, & A. N. Link (Eds.), The Concise Guide to Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation. New York, NY: Edward Elgar.

Robb, A. M., & Robinson, D. T. (2014). The capital structure decisions of new firms. Review of Finan-cial Studies, 27(1), 153-179.

Winborg, J., & Landström, H. (2001). Financial bootstrapping in small businesses: examining small business managers' resource acquisition behaviors. Journal of Business Venturing, 16(3), 235-254.

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