Governance and resource interaction in networks. The role of venture capital in a biotech start-up

Torkel Strömsten and Alexandra Waluszewski

Journal of Business Research, 2012, vol. 65, issue 2, 232-244

Abstract: This paper examines venture capital (VC) governance in innovation processes. The VC literature often presents the relationship between a VC firm and a start-up as dyadic and analyzes it with agency theory. In contrast, this paper deploys the resource interaction framework presented in Håkansson and Waluszewski (2002) to governance and innovation in networks. The paper reports an in-depth case study of Pyrosequencing, a Swedish biotech firm financed with VC. The results from this study reveal how the relationship between a VC and a start-up company is embedded in a wider network and how the governance of the VC spreads in the surrounding network and influences a start-up's possibilities to develop organizational and technical resource interfaces to critical counterparts such as suppliers and customers.

Keywords: Resources; Innovation; Networks; Corporate governance; Venture capital; Speed (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2010.11.030

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