Venture boards: Knowns and unknowns
梳理了风险投资董事会的研究现状，提出应将董事会从结构视角转向能力视角，关注其如何帮助高增长企业在不确定性中学习、决策和获取资源，并指出未来五个研究方向。
Venture boards shape how high-growth ventures learn, decide, and access resources under uncertainty. This special issue advances venture board research by shifting attention from boards as structure (composition and formal attributes) to boards as capability (routines and relational processes that channel attention, orchestrate advice and monitoring, and enable timely decisions). The eight articles collectively explore board composition, its changes over the venture life cycle, consequences on boards, and outcomes. Building on these contributions and the wider literature, this editorial advances five directions for future research: theorizing boards as capabilities and mechanisms, embracing epistemological and methodological pluralism, unpacking micro-level decision dynamics, comparing venture boards with other sources of advice, and situating venture boards in their entrepreneurial ecosystems.