Download or read book Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value written by Maik Kleinschmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maik Kleinschmidt explores the determinants of venture capitalists’ influence as well as their impact on the corporate governance of portfolio companies and analyses the influence of corporate governance on the companies’ firm value. His findings support the hypothesis that venture capitalists improve the corporate governance of their portfolio companies and that their abilities determine their impact. Moreover, they show the positive impact of good corporate governance on some measures for firm value.