Importance of Characterisitcs of the Entrepreneur for the Investment Decision Taken by Venture Capital Funds in Poland. Selected Results of the Study Cover Image

Znaczenie charakterystyki przedsiębiorcy w decyzjach inwestycyjnych funduszy venture capital w Polsce
Importance of Characterisitcs of the Entrepreneur for the Investment Decision Taken by Venture Capital Funds in Poland. Selected Results of the Study

Author(s): Rafał Morawczyński
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: venture capital; private equity; entrepreneur; entrepreneurship; investment decisions

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present selected results of the research carried out on the group of 25 venture capital and private equity funds. The research was dedicated to the importance of characteristics of the entrepreneur in the decision process of private market funds. The study was conducted personally by the author who used questionnaire and experiment design in 2015 in Poland. The results of he study prove that characteristics of the entrepreneur create a very important decision criteria for investment funds but they should be taken into consideration together with other criteria that describe the investment opportunity. This research is the first out carried out in Poland on such a relatively large sample of private market investment funds.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 82 (2)
  • Page Range: 527-538
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish