List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction

Mike Wright

Ken Robbie

Venture capital: predictions and outcomes. Venture Capital at the Crossroads and Realizing Investment Value revisited

William D. Bygrave

Jeffry Timmons

The venture capital and buy-out markets in the UK and Europe

Mike Wright

Ken Robbie

Venture capital in transition economies: the cases of Hungary, Poland and Slovakia

Judit Karsai

Mike Wright

Zbigniew Dudzinski

Jan Morovic

The role of trust in the informal investor's investment decision: an exploratory analysis

Mark Dibben

Richard Harrison

Colin Mason

Relationship participation: the case of banks and smaller businesses

Martin Binks

Christine Ennew

Loan covenants, relationship banking and management buy-outs in default: a comparative study of the UK and Holland

David Citron

Ken Robbie

Mike Wright

Hans Bruining

Arthur Herst

Small business demand for trade credit, credit rationing and the late payment of commercial debt: an empirical study

Nicholas Wilson

Carole Singleton

Barbara Summers

Funds providers' role in venture capital firm monitoring

Ken Robbie

Mike Wright

Brian Chiplin

Sources of venture capital deals: MBOs, IBOs and corporate refocusing

Michelle Haynes

Steve Thompson

Mike Wright

Venture capitalists, investment appraisal and accounting information: a comparative study of the US, UK, France, Belgium and Holland

Sophie Manigart

Koen de Waele

Mike Wright

Ken Robbie

Philippe Desbrieres

Harry Sapienza

Amy Beekman

Accounting information system development and the supply of venture capital

Falconer Mitchell

Gavin Reid

Nicholas Terry

European IPO markets: a post-issue performance study

Benoit Leleux

Daniel Muzyka

Venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs and serial buy-outs

Mike Wright

Ken Robbie

Christine Ennew

Index