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Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations by Justine E. Tinkler; Kjersten Bunker Whittington; Manwai C. Ku; Andrea Rees Davies is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations about?
Research on gender and workplace decision-making tends to address either supply-side disparities between men’s and women’s human and social capital, or demand-side differences in the status expectations of women and men workers. In addition, this work often relies on causal inferences drawn from empirical data collected on worker characteristics and their workplace outcomes. In this study, we demonstrate how tangible education and work history credentials – typically associated with supply-side characteristics – work in tandem with cultural beliefs about gender to influence the evaluative process that underlies venture capital decisions made in high-growth, high-tech entrepreneurship. Using an experimental design, we simulate funding decisions by venture capitalists (VCs) for men and women entrepreneurs that differ in technical background and the presence of important social ties. We demonstrate the presence of two distinct aspects of VCs’ evaluation: that of the venture and that of the entrepreneur, and find that the gender of the entrepreneur influences evaluations most when the person, rather than the venture, is the target of evaluation. Technical background qualifications mode
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- Author
- Justine E. Tinkler; Kjersten Bunker Whittington; Manwai C. Ku; Andrea Rees Davies
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences