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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
70
Citations
19563
World Ranking
305
National Ranking
41

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Colin Mason is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, specializing in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research concentrates on various subfields including Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their primary research topics focus on Private Equity and Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, Family Business Performance and Succession, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, and Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Colin Mason has contributed to numerous academic papers published between 2020 and 2021. Some of the recent papers include:

  • A manifesto for researching entrepreneurial ecosystems, 2020, Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
  • The engagement of home-based businesses in the digital economy, 2020, Futures
  • Time and the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems, 2021, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity, 2021, Futures
  • Promoting cross-border investing by business angels in the European Union, 2021, Regional Studies

The researcher frequently collaborates with fellow academics, with notable co-authors including Tiago Botelho, Darja Reuschke, Michaela Hruskova, Richard Harrison, and Stephen Syrett.

Colin Mason's work has been published in several recurrent academic venues, prominently featuring:

  • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
  • Futures
  • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • Venture Capital

The scope of Mason's research addresses complex issues related to entrepreneurial ecosystems, the digital economy's impact on small and home-based businesses, and cross-border investment dynamics within the European business angel community. This research spans topics that are important in understanding the transformation of contemporary entrepreneurial and financial landscapes.

Best Publications

  • ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS AND GROWTH ORIENTED ENTREPRENEURSHIP

    Colin Mason;Ross Brown

  • Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research

    Richard Harrison;C.G. Brush;P. Davidsson;J. Fiet

  • What do Investors Look for in a Business Plan? A Comparison of the Investment Criteria of Bankers, Venture Capitalists and Business Angels

    C.M. Mason;J.M. Stark

  • Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems

    Ross Crawford Brown;Colin Mason

  • Creating good public policy to support high-growth firms

    Colin Mason;Ross Brown

  • Is it worth it? The rates of return from informal venture capital investments

    Colin M Mason;Richard T Harrison

  • Does Gender Matter? Women Business Angels and the Supply of Entrepreneurial Finance

    Richard T. Harrison;Colin M. Mason

  • Barriers to investment in the informal venture capital sector

    Colin M. Mason;Richard T. Harrison

  • Informal venture capital: a study of the investment process, the post-investment experience and investment performance

    Colin M Mason;Richard T. Harrison

  • After the exit: acquisitions, entrepreneurial recycling and regional economic development

    Colin M. Mason;Richard T. Harrison

  • Closing the regional equity capital gap: The role of informal venture capital

    Colin M. Mason;Richard T. Harrison

  • Informal Sources of Venture Finance

    Colin M. Mason

  • Financial bootstrapping and venture development in the software industry

    Richard T. Harrison;Colin M. Mason;Paul Girling

  • The latent demand for bank debt: characterizing “discouraged borrowers”

    Mark Freel;Sara Carter;Stephen Tagg;Colin Mason

  • Venture capital market complementarities: The links between business angels and venture capital funds in the United Kingdom

    Richard T. Harrison;Colin M. Mason

  • Invisible businesses : the characteristics of home-based businesses in the United Kingdom

    Colin M. Mason;Sara Carter;Stephen Tagg

  • The role of trust in the informal investor's investment decision: an exploratory analysis

    Richard T. Harrison;Mark R. Dibben;Colin M. Mason

  • International perspectives on the supply of informal venture capital

    Richard T. Harrison;Colin M. Mason

  • Why 'Business Angels' Say No: A Case Study of Opportunities Rejected by an Informal Investor Syndicate

    Colin Mason;Richard Harrison

  • Public policy support for the informal venture capital market in Europe: A critical review

    Colin M. Mason

  • Handbook of entrepreneurship research: an interdisciplinary survey and introduction

    Colin Mason

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard T. Harrison
Richard T. Harrison University of Edinburgh
Sara Carter
Sara Carter University of Glasgow
Hans Landström
Hans Landström Lund University
Per Davidsson
Per Davidsson Jönköping University
Maarten van Ham
Maarten van Ham Delft University of Technology
Shaker A. Zahra
Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota
Candida G. Brush
Candida G. Brush Babson College
Melvin J. Lerner
Melvin J. Lerner University of Waterloo
Mark Hart
Mark Hart Aston University
Allan Findlay
Allan Findlay University of St Andrews

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