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Drawing on social capital and agency theories and using a multi-study research design, this study examined how perceived risk and return interacts with familism to influence individuals’ investment strategies in new venture financing, both capital seeking and capital providing behavior. We found that individuals high in familism are more likely to seek capital from and provide capital to family members than non-family members for new ventures. However, such relationships are more complex than prior research suggests because when individuals’ risk and return perceptions are included these interact with familism to differentially influence capital financing behavior directed at family versus non-family members. Contributions to theory and potential avenues for future research are discussed.
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1 Department of International Business and Management, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China; Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2 Department of Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
3 Department of Management, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong; Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, China
4 Department of International Business and Management, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China