Disentangling Gut Feeling - Assessing the Integrity of Social Entrepreneurs

Achleitner, Ann‐Kristin; Lutz, Eva; Mayer, Judith; Spiess-Knafl, Wolfgang

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1911763

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“…Surprisingly few cues are used when a venture is evaluated. Achleitner, Lutz, Mayer, and Spiess‐Knafl () showed that the decision to invest in social ventures depends on two cues, voluntary accountability efforts and reputation. A positive evaluation of one of these two cues was already sufficient to obtain funding.…”

Section: Managerial Heuristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heuristics as adaptive decision strategies in management

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SummaryIn the management literature, heuristics are often conceived of as a source of systematic error, whereas logic and statistics are regarded as the sine qua non of good decision making. Yet, this view can be incorrect for decisions made under uncertainty, as opposed to risk. Research on fast and frugal heuristics shows that simple heuristics can be successful in complex, uncertain environments and also when and why this is the case. This article describes the conceptual framework of heuristics as adaptive decision strategies and connects it with the managerial literature. We review five classes of heuristics, analyze their common building blocks, and show how these are applied in managerial decision making. We conclude by highlighting some prominent opportunities for future research in the field. In the uncertain world of management, simple heuristics can lead to better and faster decisions than complex statistical procedures.

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Section: Managerial Heuristicsmentioning

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“…On the other hand, conventional financing channels, such as venture capital and IPO, seems not to have been paid adequate attention. The low centrality score of the research domain, and a limited number of studies found, confirms this issue (Achleitner et al 2013 ; Mayer and Scheck 2018 ). Given the increase in the number and size of social venture capital firms, such as Triodos Investment Management, Vital Capital, Grassroot Business Fund, and Unitus Seed Fund, etc., more researches on how social entrepreneurs and enterprises finance from social venture capitals need to be conducted.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

On the social and conceptual structure of the 50-year research landscape in entrepreneurial finance

Nguyen

Pham

et al. 2020

SN Bus Econ

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In recent decades, drastic changes in global social-economic situations have led to significant shifts in the financial market for entrepreneurial firms, thus resulting in changes in entrepreneurial finance discipline. The current body of literature, despite its significant growth, has not provided an overview landscape of this research area. Consequently, this study aims to fill this gap by employing the bibliometric analysis of 6902 articles from 1970 to 2019 extracted from the Web of Science database. By doing so, this paper attempts to provide an overview of the discipline's research output, social and conceptual structure, and offer strategies facilitating the scientific development within the field. The findings indicate that entrepreneurial finance is a young and growing field with an exponential increase in the number of publications (approx. 19.75 percent per year) and rising collaboration tendency among authors. The 1991–2000 period is a crucial milestone of the field thanks to the remarkable growth and impact of studies during this period as well as simultaneously occurring historical events. We also notice a sign of Western ideological homogeneity from the collaboration networks and lists of most productive authors, institutions, and countries. Additionally, using thematic mapping, five major research domains are identified: “venture capital”, “crowdfunding”, “SMEs finance”, “social entrepreneurship finance”, “IPO and corporate governance”. Based on these findings, we raise the concern of lacking diversity in entrepreneurial finance research and propose strategies for authors, journals, and policymakers to diversify the literature.

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“…As an example of the coding process, the paper by Phillips and Johnson (2021) was coded as 'issues around investment readiness', as its main focus was to examine the demand-side factors that contributed to the lack of investment readiness in the Canadian impact investment market. As another example of the coding process used in this review, the article by Achleitner et al (2013) was 3 See Linnenluecke et al (2017) for an alternative literature assessment technique, namely bibliographic mapping, which can be used to quantitatively analyse the sample articles. However, conducting such an assessment of the literature is beyond the scope of the current review.…”

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Impact investing in social sector organisations: a systematic review and research agenda

Islam

2021

Accounting & Finance

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Impact investing has great potential to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by financing the growth of social sector organisations. This paper conducts a systematic literature review to develop cumulative insights into impact investing in social sector organisations. It identifies four streams of impact investing research: impact investment decision making, impact evaluation in impact investing, behavioural issues in impact investing, and impact investing ecosystem. This paper also identifies nine main research focus areas within these research streams and discusses key insights into each of them. Finally, building on prior research, this article offers a comprehensive future research agenda.

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Disentangling Gut Feeling - Assessing the Integrity of Social Entrepreneurs

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

Heuristics as adaptive decision strategies in management

Heuristics as adaptive decision strategies in management

On the social and conceptual structure of the 50-year research landscape in entrepreneurial finance

Impact investing in social sector organisations: a systematic review and research agenda

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