Riskkapital i svensk fotboll: En fallstudie om kontroll, tillit och förtroende

Sammanfattning: The aim of this paper is to examine how confidence in co-operative behaviour of partner is reached in a relationship between an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. A case study has been conducted on a Swedish football club that has involved venture capital in order to develop the organization. The paper presents a theoretical approach which draws on a control model of interorganizational relationships developed by Dekker (2004) and a model developed by Shepherd & Zacharakis (2001) illustrating how control, trust and confidence is reached in a venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship. The relationship between the football club and the venture capitalist can simultaneously be seen as an interorganizational relationship and a relationship between an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. Because of the complexity of the relationship, different control problems prevail. These are expressed in terms of coordination requirements and appropriation concerns, problems that are solved by the combination of social and formal control mechanisms. The main finding of the study is that the balanced level of these mechanisms results in a mutual confidence of co-operative behaviour of partner.