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Optimizing individual performance, raising the bar of organizational productivity, and being able to accomplish these two organizational objectives without compromising an individual's work and life effectiveness have become subjects of paramount importance. A growing body of re…

Equity seed capital for high technology entrepreneurial start-ups originates from multiple sources that include personal finance, private investors or angels, venture capital, government, and corporations. This research examines how the sources of seed capital and the structures…

A Businessman's Risk: The Construction of Venture Capital at the Center of U.S. High Technology is a micro-history of a key, but forgotten, moment in the development of the high technology/finance nexus in the United States. In this dissertation I argue that the Small Business A…