This highly accessible book brings together the insights of leading academics and researchers to promote a better understanding of the role of private equity providers in the development of growth-oriented start-ups and the management of growth processes.

<title>Abstract</title> This research investigates the motivation of 91 Italian entrepreneurs for engaging in private equity financing. The laddering methodology is used to uncover cognitive schemas of entrepreneurs consisting of a structure of interconnected motives organized in a hierarchy. Means -- end...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the antecedents of organizational identification. Specifically, this paper aims to integrate two perspectives developed within the social identity domain, labeled “cognitive” and “relational,” by comparing and...