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The Financial Value of Entrepreneurship

Using Applied Research to Quantify Entrepreneurial Competence

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Authors:
  1. Guido M. Mantovani

    1. Ca’ Foscari University , Venice, Italy

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  • Identifies specific ways in which skills contribute to corporate performance

  • Offers insights on estimating and measuring competence value

  • Explores the return-to-risk profile of investing

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Root: Why Competence has Value

    • Guido M. Mantovani
    Pages 1-24

  3. Contributions of Skills to Entrepreneurial (and Small Business) Economics

    • Guido M. Mantovani
    Pages 25-35

  4. In Search of Competence Value in an Incomplete Financial Market Context

    • Guido M. Mantovani
    Pages 37-73

  5. The Return-To-Risk Profile of Investing in a Competence-Driven Business

    • Guido M. Mantovani
    Pages 75-106

  6. How to Measure the Competence Value (from the Q Ratio to the T Ratio)

    • Guido M. Mantovani
    Pages 107-120

  7. Funding the Competence Life Cycle to Create Value and Allow It to Emerge

    • Guido M Mantovani
    Pages 121-134

  8. The Next Step: From Asset-Backed to Competence-Driven Financial Practices

    • Guido M. Mantovani
    Pages 135-150

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-158
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About this book

This Palgrave Pivot examines the essence of competence value in corporate and small business finance, offering empirical evidence to better understand financial practices within entrepreneurial settings. Mantovani suggests an innovative methodology to detect the financial value of entrepreneurial capabilities. He shows how the concept of competence value and T-ratio, its measurement tool, are necessary to arrange sound entrepreneurial finance deals. This book opens with an analysis of how entrepreneurial skills contribute to the economics of entrepreneurial business, and then provides a financial background to estimate the competence value even when the financial markets fail to do so. The book goes on to introduce the idea of an entrepreneurial life-cycle made of stages based on the transformation of human skills into competitive hallmarks. Applications across a large sample of companies and Mantovani's concluding suggestions about the financial practice make this book essential to both academics and executives.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ca’ Foscari University , Venice, Italy

    Guido M. Mantovani

About the author

Guido M. Mantovani is Professor of Corporate Finance at Ca' Foscari University's Treviso and Venice campuses in Italy, and President of the HERMES Universities network in Strasbourg, France. He has published in Italy and internationally on topics of contingent-claim finance, corporate risk management, and information risks. More recently, his research efforts have focused on entrepreneurial finance, the financial valuation of human capital, and the integrated rating of small and medium enterprises. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Financial Value of Entrepreneurship

  • Book Subtitle: Using Applied Research to Quantify Entrepreneurial Competence

  • Authors: Guido M. Mantovani

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36537-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39149-0Published: 19 June 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36537-8Published: 16 June 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 158

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Investment Appraisal, Entrepreneurship

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