Hot Markets, Sociocognitive Cues, and New Market Entry in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry

Jade Y. Lo, Lei Xu and Haemin Dennis Park

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2024, vol. 48, issue 2, 478-505

Abstract: Investing in sectors that a firm has never invested in before is fundamentally a form of entrepreneurial experimentation and an integral part of wealth creation. We consider how the broader market conditions and sociocognitive cues jointly affect venture capital (VC) firms’ investment decisions in new industries that are unrelated to their past experience. Although VCs are more likely to enter an unrelated new industry when the overall market is hot, they also take sociocognitive cues from their own social contacts and news media. Using the population of U.S. VC investments between 1990 and 2016, we find support for our predictions.

Keywords: new industry entry; hot market; sociocognitive cues; venture capital; media coverage divergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/10422587231173687

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