Governance and resource interaction in networks. The role of venture capital in a biotech start-up |
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Authors: | Torkel Strö msten,Alexandra Waluszewski |
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Affiliation: | a Stockholm School of Economics, Box 6501, 113 83 Stockholm, Swedenb Uppsala STS, Uppsala University, Box 513, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Resources Innovation Networks Corporate governance Venture capital Speed |
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