Equity investors and entrepreneurs: a conflict perspective

Jane Power, Bernadette Power and Geraldine Ryan

Chapter 14 in Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, 2024, pp 237-263 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores sources of agency conflicts between investors and entrepreneurs and actions undertaken by investors to mitigate against agency conflict. Given that a principal agent relationship exists between equity investors and entrepreneurs, conflicts arise as the interest of firm investors (and firm insiders) and entrepreneurs are not perfectly aligned. Primary-source data on sources of agency conflicts and actions to mitigate agency conflicts collected in face-to-face interviews with the founders of equity financed high technology manufacturing and knowledge intensive services firms in Ireland are examined.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy General Academic Interest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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