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organizations?
- To gain access she knew she had one of two ways: meeting Business
Angel and getting referred to their other contacts but that wasn’t possible,
therefore she went to the other option and that is using intermediaries.
she knew she had to get access to them before being able to reach business
Angels. During her undergraduate project, she established contact with a small
number of Business Angel Networks which was a starting point for her.
- To make sure she would gain their attention for her Master research
proposal she made sure that her request was noticed by doing it properly.
Therefore she was hoping her questionnaire will be distributed to the Business
Angel members.
2. What problems did Stephanie face in the access negotiation stage of her project?
- She had to find a way to contact Business Angel and that couldn’t be
consuming.
- She had to make sure she is well prepared and that her proposal will
be written and presented properly in order to capture the interest to the Business
with Business Angel network managers face to face and asked them for their
opinion.
to promote her research. This helped her as a researcher and encouraged others to
doing phone calls and made sure that before her phone calls she was well
prepared, professional and highly interested. During calls she did the following:
mentioned.
Although most Business Angel network managers agreed to distribute her questionnaire to
their members, yet she still had to gain acceptance from the individual Business Angels
and ensure their cooperation to fill the questionnaire, once distributed by Business Angel
network managers. Yet, the distribution process she had no control of as it was undertaken