Journal of Indian Business Research: Volume 14 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Thillai Rajan Annamalai, Priya Nair Rajeev

What differentiates angel investors in pre-seed versus seed-stage investments? Evidence from India

A. Niroopa Rani Annamalaisami

Angel investments are increasingly getting specialized. In recent years, start-ups are raising pre-seed funding before seed-stage funding. Investors in pre-seed and seed-stage…

Management accounting tools for failure prevention and risk management in the context of Indian innovative start-ups: a contingency theory approach

Cdr S. Navaneetha Krishnan (Retd.), L.S. Ganesh, C. Rajendran

This paper aims to analyse various failures that Indian innovative start-ups (ISs) are exposed to and proposes interventions from management accounting tools (MATs) that can…

Decoding VC exit returns: the Indian experience

James Dominic, Arun Kumar Gopalaswamy

This paper aims to analyse the effect of the investment duration, the overall market condition and the industry to which the investee firm belongs on exit returns realised by…

Digital platforms for connecting actors in the agtech space: insights on platform development from participatory action research on KisanMitr

Sapna Poti, Simy Joy

This paper aims to explore the development of digital platforms in agtech space as a mechanism to mitigate the disconnects among the various actors in the innovation, business and…