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Research.com Recognitions

  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management

Overview

Sophie Manigart is affiliated with Vlerick Business School in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main subfields of their work include Accounting, Management Information Systems, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, and Strategy and Management. Within these subfields, their research topics cover areas such as Private Equity and Venture Capital, Corporate Finance and Governance, FinTech, Crowdfunding, and Digital Finance, State Capitalism and Financial Governance, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, and Banking Stability, Regulation, and Efficiency.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sophie Manigart include:

  • Jeroen Verbouw
  • Veroniek Collewaert
  • Yan Alperovych
  • Miguel Meuleman
  • Fabio Bertoni

Their research has been published in a range of academic venues, notably:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • British Journal of Management
  • Venture Capital
  • Journal of Corporate Finance

Recent papers authored by Sophie Manigart and others include:

  • "Digitization in the Market for Entrepreneurial Finance: Innovative Business Models and New Financing Channels," 2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • "Venture Capital Winners: A Configurational Approach to High Venture Capital-Backed Firm Growth," 2021, British Journal of Management
  • "Are you part of the crowd? The role of sex and environmental characteristics for crowdfunding awareness," 2020, Journal of Small Business Management
  • "Private Debt Fund Returns, Persistence, and Market Conditions," 2022, Financial Analysts Journal
  • "Unanswered questions in entrepreneurial finance," 2023, Venture Capital

Sophie Manigart has been recognized with the Mentor Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Venture capitalist governance and value added in four countries

    Harry J. Sapienza;Sophie Manigart;Wim Vermeir

  • Determinants of required return in venture capital investments: a five-country study

    Sophie Manigart;Koen De Waele;Mike Wright;Ken Robbie

  • Institutional influences on the worldwide expansion of venture capital

    Garry D. Bruton;Vance H. Fried;Sophie Manigart

  • Venture Capitalists' Decision to Syndicate

    Sophie Manigart;Andy Lockett;Miguel Meuleman;Mike Wright

  • Pecking order and debt capacity considerations for high-growth companies seeking financing

    Tom R. Vanacker;Sophie Manigart

  • Beyond environmental scarcity: Human and social capital as driving forces of bootstrapping activities

    Dietmar Grichnik;Jan Brinckmann;Luv Singh;Sophie Manigart

  • The survival of venture capital backed companies

    Sophie Manigart;Katleen Baeyens;Wim Van Hyfte

  • Venture Capitalists’ Appraisal of Investment Projects: An Empirical European Study:

    Sophie Manigart;Mike Wright;Ken Robbie;Philippe Desbrières

  • Venture Capital Governance and Value Added in Four Countries

    Sophie Manigart;Harry J. Sapienza;Wim Vermeir

  • The impact of human and social capital on entrepreneurs' knowledge of finance alternatives

    Arnout Seghers;Sophie Manigart;Tom Vanacker

  • Venture capitalists, investment appraisal and accounting information: a comparative study of the USA, UK, France, Belgium and Holland

    Sophie Manigart;Koen De Waele;Mike Wright;Ken Robbie

  • Financing high technology startups in Belgium: An explorative study

    Sophie Manigart;Carol Struyf

  • Private Equity Syndication: Agency Costs, Reputation and Collaboration

    Miguel Meuleman;Mike Wright;Sophie Manigart;Andy Lockett

  • Firm exit after distress: differentiating between bankruptcy, voluntary liquidation and M&A

    Sofie Balcaen;Sophie Manigart;Jozefien Buyze;Hubert Ooghe

  • Partner Selection Decisions in Interfirm Collaborations: The Paradox of Relational Embeddedness

    Miguel Meuleman;Andy Lockett;Sophie Manigart;Mike Wright

  • A longitudinal study on the relationship between financial bootstrapping and new venture growth

    Tom Vanacker;Sophie Manigart;Miguel Meuleman;Luc Sels

  • New directions in entrepreneurial finance

    Douglas Cumming;Marc Deloof;Sophie Manigart;Mike Wright

  • The Level and Nature of Venture Capitalist Involvement in Their Portfolio Companies: A Study of Three European Countries

    Harry J. Sapienza;Allen C. Amason;Sophie Manigart

  • The role of domestic and cross-border venture capital investors in the growth of portfolio companies

    David Devigne;Tom Vanacker;Sophie Manigart;Sophie Manigart;Ine Paeleman

  • The founding rate of venture capital firms in three European countries (1970–1990)☆

    Sophie Manigart

  • Venture capitalists, investment appraisal and accounting information: a comparative study of the US, UK, France, Belgium and Holland

    Philippe Desbrières;Sophie Manigart;Koen De Waele;Mike Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Marc Deloof
Marc Deloof University of Antwerp
Luc Sels
Luc Sels KU Leuven
Robert Folger
Robert Folger University of Central Florida
Willy Verstraete
Willy Verstraete Ghent University
Douglas J. Cumming
Douglas J. Cumming Stevens Institute of Technology

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