Editorial: Entrepreneurial Finance and the Legacy of Mike Wright.

What the field seeks to do is identify and better understand new categories of investors who seek to play a more hands-on role in the management of companies and what they do; the former would include private equity (PE), venture capital (VC) and crowdfunding. Third, Di Pietro, Monaghan and O'Hagan-Luff (2022) show how external investors (including angels, VC and PE funds) affect human resource management (HRM) in small, entrepreneurial firms. Also, PE-backed firms have low average productivity levels, which is important for PE investors to realize performance improvements and generate returns for their investors. This collection of papers was gathered together to celebrate the lifetime scholarly achievements of Mike Wright, Fellow of the British Academy of Management (BAM). [Extracted from the article]