Szalavetz, Andrea and Sauvage, Nicolas (2024) The financialization of corporate venture capital investment? The corporation as a venture capitalist. SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW, 22 (1). pp. 373-394. ISSN 1475-1461
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Abstract
Recent trends in corporate venture capital (CVC) activities have added to the size and complexity of the financial system. Intuition suggests that in a period marked by spectacularly increasing start-up valuations, the opportunity to earn large capital gains increases the importance of corporate investors’ financial motivations. Drawing on interviews with 12 Silicon Valley-based CVC units of global industrial companies, we examine if new trends in CVC investment represent a diversion from incumbents’ traditional focus on improving the competitive advantage of their core businesses. Building on the theory of the financialization of non-financial companies, we investigate the relationship between the strategic and financial motivations of CVC investing. We extend theory by distinguishing between developments at the extensive and intensive margins. We argue that the commonly applied quantitative measures capture financialization only at the extensive margin. Qualitative data indicate that the hypothesis of financialization does not hold at the intensive margin.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | financialization, corporate venture capital, firm strategy, technological change |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences / társadalomtudományok > HC Economic History and Conditions / gazdaság története és alapelvek > HC2 Economic policy / gazdaságpolitika H Social Sciences / társadalomtudományok > HG Finance / pénzügy |
SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2024 07:28 |
Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2024 07:28 |
URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/192381 |
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