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Markku V. J. Maula

Markku V. J. Maula

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
35
Citations
7855
World Ranking
2163
National Ranking
26

Overview

Markku V. J. Maula is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland, contributing primarily to the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research encompasses several subfields, notably Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Finance.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include Private Equity and Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, as well as Innovation and Knowledge Management, Service and Product Innovation, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, and FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance.

Markku Maula has authored multiple recent papers including:

  • Progress toward understanding tensions in corporate venture capital: A systematic review (2022, Journal of Business Venturing)
  • Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship (2022, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)
  • Attention across borders: Investor attention as a driver of cross-border equity crowdfunding investments (2022, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal)
  • Contextual status effects: The performance effects of host-country network status and regulatory institutions in cross-border venture capital (2021, Research Policy)
  • Organizational Experience and Performance: A Systematic Review and Contingency Framework (2022, Academy of Management Annals)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • David Wunder
  • Yu Liu
  • Thomas Keil
  • Euiju Jeon
  • Dimo Dimov

Scholarly contributions have appeared regularly in notable publication venues such as:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Business Venturing

Best Publications

  • Exploration, exploitation, and financial performance: analysis of S&P 500 corporations

    Juha Uotila;Markku Maula;Thomas Keil;Shaker A. Zahra

  • The effect of governance modes and relatedness of external business development activities on innovative performance

    Thomas Keil;Markku Maula;Henri Schildt;Shaker A. Zahra

  • Explorative and Exploitative Learning from External Corporate Ventures

    Henri A. Schildt;Markku V.J. Maula;Thomas Keil

  • Driven by aspirations, but in what direction? Performance shortfalls, slack resources, and resource-consuming vs. resource-freeing organizational change

    Pasi Kuusela;Thomas Keil;Markku Maula

  • Corporate Venture Capitalists and Independent Venture Capitalists: What do they know, Who do They Know and Should Entrepreneurs Care?

    Markku Maula;Erkko Autio;Gordon C. Murray

  • The temporal effects of relative and firm-level absorptive capacity on interorganizational learning

    Henri Schildt;Thomas Keil;Markku Maula

  • Top Management’s Attention to Discontinuous Technological Change: Corporate Venture Capital as an Alert Mechanism

    Markku V. J. Maula;Thomas Keil;Shaker A. Zahra

  • What Drives Micro-Angel Investments?

    Markku V.J. Maula;Erkko Autio;Pia Arenius

  • Corporate venture capital and the creation of U.S.Public Companies: The impact of sources of venture capital on the performance of portfolio companies

    Markku Maula;Gordon Murray

  • Corporate venture capital and the value-added for technology-based new firms

    Markku V. J. Maula

  • Profit distribution and compensation structures in publicly and privately funded hybrid venture capital funds

    Mikko Jääskeläinen;Markku Maula;Gordon Murray

  • Prerequisites for the creation of social capital and subsequent knowledge acquisition in corporate venture capital

    Markku Maula;Erkko Autio;Gordon Murray

  • Allocation of Attention to Portfolio Companies and the Performance of Venture Capital Firms

    Mikko Jääskeläinen;Markku Maula;Tuukka Seppä

  • Attracting cross-border venture capital: the role of a local investor

    Markus M. Mäkelä;Markku V. J. Maula

  • Cross-border venture capital and new venture internationalization: An isomorphism perspective

    Markus M. Mäkelä;Markku V. J. Maula

  • Interorganizational Commitment in Syndicated Cross–Border Venture Capital Investments:

    Markus M. Mäkelä;Markku V.J. Maula

  • Transferability of the venture capital model to the corporate context: Implications for the performance of corporate venture units

    Susan A. Hill;Markku V. J. Maula;Julian M. Birkinshaw;Gordon C. Murray

  • Unique Resources of Corporate Venture Capitalists as a Key to Entry Into Rigid Venture Capital Syndication Networks

    Thomas Keil;Markku V.J. Maula;Cameron Wilson

  • Open innovation in systemic innovation contexts

    Markku V.J. Maula;Thomas Keil;Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita

  • Enhancing Rigor in Quantitative Entrepreneurship Research

    Markku Maula;Wouter Stam

  • Corporate venture capital and the balance of risks and rewards for portfolio companies

    Markku V.J. Maula;Erkko Autio;Gordon C. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Keil
Thomas Keil University of Würzburg
Shaker A. Zahra
Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota
Erkko Autio
Erkko Autio Imperial College London
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Ari Hyytinen
Ari Hyytinen Hanken School of Economics
Sharon A. Alvarez
Sharon A. Alvarez University of Pittsburgh
Donald F. Kuratko
Donald F. Kuratko Indiana University
Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead Durham University
Gerard George
Gerard George Singapore Management University
Julian Birkinshaw
Julian Birkinshaw London Business School

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