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Sofia Johan, LL.B (University of Liverpool), LL.M. in International Economic Law (University of Warwick), Ph.D. in Law and Economics (Tilburg University), is Associate Professor of Finance and Fellow of the Phil Smith Center for Free Enterprise at Florida Atlantic University, USA. She is also Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at the University of Aberdeen Business School and the Extramural Research Fellow at the Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC) in The Netherlands. She is Co-Editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management, and on the Editorial Board of Finance Research Letters. Her research is focused on law and finance, sovereign wealth funds, market surveillance, corporate governance, alternative investments (including but not limited to hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, real estate investment trusts and IPOs) and alternative finance (including but not limited to crowdfunding, peer to peer lending and cryptocurrencies). Her research has been published in the American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Financial Management, European Economic Review, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, among other journals. She has co-authored the books titled Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts and Insights
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This paper studies the advising and monitoring activities of 14 European venture capitalists (VCs... more This paper studies the advising and monitoring activities of 14 European venture capitalists (VCs) in 74 entrepreneurial firms. We distinguish between VC advising versus monitoring activities based on the congruence versus dissonance with entrepreneurial interests. The data indicate that the allocation of greater cash flow and control rights to the VCs gives rise to more intensive VC advice, but not more intensive monitoring. VC monitoring is attributable to the need for monitoring due to entrepreneurial firm-specific characteristics. The data further indicate a strong effect of portfolio size on both advice and monitoring, consistent with recent theoretical work on the optimal size of VC portfolios. Finally, the data indicate a country’s legality index is closely connected with the propensity for conflicts between entrepreneurs and their investors. The results are robust to the potential for endogeneity, among various other robustness checks.
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2007
This paper studies the advising and monitoring activities of 14 European venture capitalists (VCs... more This paper studies the advising and monitoring activities of 14 European venture capitalists (VCs) in 74 entrepreneurial firms. We distinguish between VC advising versus monitoring activities based on the congruence versus dissonance with entrepreneurial interests. The data indicate that the allocation of greater cash flow and control rights to the VCs gives rise to more intensive VC advice, but not more intensive monitoring. VC monitoring is attributable to the need for monitoring due to entrepreneurial firm-specific characteristics. The data further indicate a strong effect of portfolio size on both advice and monitoring, consistent with recent theoretical work on the optimal size of VC portfolios. Finally, the data indicate a country's legality index is closely connected with the propensity for conflicts between entrepreneurs and their investors. The results are robust to the potential for endogeneity, among various other robustness checks.
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 1989
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Small Business Economics, 2017
Emerging Markets Review, 2016
This paper studies the advising and monitoring activities of 14 European venture capitalists (VCs... more This paper studies the advising and monitoring activities of 14 European venture capitalists (VCs) in 74 entrepreneurial firms. We distinguish between VC advising versus monitoring activities based on the congruence versus dissonance with entrepreneurial interests. The data indicate that the allocation of greater cash flow and control rights to the VCs gives rise to more intensive VC advice, but not more intensive monitoring. VC monitoring is attributable to the need for monitoring due to entrepreneurial firm-specific characteristics. The data further indicate a strong effect of portfolio size on both advice and monitoring, consistent with recent theoretical work on the optimal size of VC portfolios. Finally, the data indicate a country’s legality index is closely connected with the propensity for conflicts between entrepreneurs and their investors. The results are robust to the potential for endogeneity, among various other robustness checks.
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2007
This paper studies the advising and monitoring activities of 14 European venture capitalists (VCs... more This paper studies the advising and monitoring activities of 14 European venture capitalists (VCs) in 74 entrepreneurial firms. We distinguish between VC advising versus monitoring activities based on the congruence versus dissonance with entrepreneurial interests. The data indicate that the allocation of greater cash flow and control rights to the VCs gives rise to more intensive VC advice, but not more intensive monitoring. VC monitoring is attributable to the need for monitoring due to entrepreneurial firm-specific characteristics. The data further indicate a strong effect of portfolio size on both advice and monitoring, consistent with recent theoretical work on the optimal size of VC portfolios. Finally, the data indicate a country's legality index is closely connected with the propensity for conflicts between entrepreneurs and their investors. The results are robust to the potential for endogeneity, among various other robustness checks.
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 1989
Academy of Management Proceedings
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
Academy of Management Journal
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Academy of Management Proceedings
Abstract This paper summarizes theory and empirical evidence that shows the Internet spurs real p... more Abstract This paper summarizes theory and empirical evidence that shows the Internet spurs real private investment expenditure among larger regional communities by enabling agglomeration among areas with a pre-existing cluster of entrepreneurial activities. For small and more remote rural communities, the Internet enables consumption of items not produced locally, and discourages entrepreneurship among communities that lack a preexisting entrepreneurial cluster.
Information Systems Frontiers
Economia e Politica Industriale
Small Business Economics, 2017
Emerging Markets Review, 2016