Advisory Boards in Startups Investigating the Roles of Advisory Boards in German Technology-Based Startups /

• Main Author: Weber, Eric (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Corporate governance.; Entrepreneurship.; Leadership.; Business and Management.; Corporate Governance.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

The author shows that advisory boards in technology-based startups have seven different roles and functions: control, advice, networking, signalling, capital provision, co-management, coordination. It is shown that venture capital investors try to influence the importance of these roles in favour of...

Table of Contents:

• Literature Review of Research on Governing Boards
• Roles of Governing Boards Explained through Agency Theory, Resource Dependency Theory, Stewardship Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Institutional Theory and Managerial Hegemony
• Exploring Roles Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
• Recommendations How to Use Advisory Boards in Practice.