The Role of Gender in Entrepreneur–Investor Relationships: A Signaling Theory Approach
从性别视角分析风险投资基金的股权融资决策，通过四个投资案例的决策文件深入分析，发现性别在融资前创业者与投资者关系中的信号传递中发挥作用。
This study adopts a gender perspective to analyze funding decisions made by an investment fund that invests equity stakes in new ventures. Prior research has indicated that there is gender skewness in risk capital investments resulting from a combination of demand‐ and supply‐side issues. We apply signaling theory to examine the interface between demand and supply to understand gender biases related to risk capital investments. In‐depth analyses of decision documents from four investment cases show that gender plays a role in the signals that are communicated in the prefunding entrepreneur–investor relationship.