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New Wine in Old Bottles? The Role of Status and Market Identity in Creating a 'Digital Media' Catagory.
(2011)
In this dissertation, I examine the role of the status and market identity in the adoption of a discontinuous technology, and theorize how status, market identity, and technology mutually shape each other in the diffusion ...
Creativity and Constraint: Exploring the Role of Constraint in the Creative Processes of New Product and Technology Development Teams.
(2011)
Research on creativity in organizations has revealed a variety of important paradoxes; paradoxes that some have argued are fundamental to the nature of creativity itself. One such paradox is the tension between freedom and ...
Small World, Big Ideas, and Smart Companies - A Qualitative Study of Academic Spin-off Companies and Knowledge Creation.
(2010)
This dissertation is about spin-off companies that stem from academic research activities from within universities. The focus is on the ways in which these companies create knowledge, the ways in which knowledge flows ...
Shaping Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Managing Uncertainty and Equivocality in the Entrepreneurial Process.
(2010)
This dissertation develops and tests a theory of how technology entrepreneurs shape their business opportunity and the organizing practices that facilitate that process. I suggest that entrepreneurial opportunities are not ...
Citizenship in Context: Investigating the Effects of Work Group Climate on Organizational Citizenship Perceptions and Behavior.
(2010)
Employees engage in countless "acts of citizenship" that benefit their organizations but may not be included in formal job descriptions. Yet, with few exceptions, scholarship on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) ...
Three Essays on Resource Allocation: Load Balancing on Highly Variable Service Time Networks, Managing Default Risk via Subsidies and Supplier Diversification, and Optimal Hotel Room Assignment.
(2010)
The first essay considers a service center with two stations in accordance with independent Poisson processes. Service times at either station follow the same general distribution, are independent of each other and are ...
The Effect of Trade Credit on Operational Policies and on the Relationship Between Banks, Suppliers, and Manufacturers.
(2010)
Companies in a broad range of industries and economies rely heavily on external sources to finance their operations. But, external financing could be expensive and/or difficult to obtain due to imperfections in real capital ...