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The Dynamics of Advice Giving by Venture Capital Firms: Antecedents of Managerial Cognitive Effort

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Bacon-Gerasymenko, Violetta and Eggers, J. P.

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This study investigates what leads managers to allocate constrained cognitive effort toward new versus familiar aspects of a business. Specifically, we explore advice giving by venture capital firms (VCs) to their portfolio companies, distinguishing between business topics on which a VC has advised other ventures in the past and topics...

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not exempt from self-attribution bias. Zacharakis, Meyer, and DeCastro (1999) found that VCs tend