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Title: | Evaluating the Economic Returns to Entrepreneurial Behaviour |
Author(s): | Ross, Robert Brent |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Westgren, Randall E. |
Department / Program: | Agricultural and Consumer Economics |
Discipline: | Agricultural and Consumer Economics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Business Administration, Management |
Abstract: | This research study also identifies 4 entrepreneurial firm capabilities that include: alertness, subjective judgment, dispersal ability and risk-taking. These capabilities were simulated using an agent-based model and experiments were run to examine their effect on firm performance over time and across different types of strategic landscapes. Furthermore, to inform the dynamics of firm behavior and the spatial elements of this model, an ecological metaphor of organizations was introduced that utilized concepts from community ecology and biogeography. The results of these experiments highlight the need for firms to develop entrepreneurial capabilities to succeed in the new competitive environment. |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 214 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82986 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI3270012 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2007 |
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Dissertations - Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois