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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"behavioral theory of the firm"”.
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Toward a search perspective on entrepreneurship
Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, this dissertation examines the learning and searching processes in new ventures. This dissertation includes three essays, each focusing on one specific aspect of a search perspective on entrepreneurship. The first essay focuses on how new ventures learn …
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Organizational Performance Relative to Aspirations: Exogenous Roots of Performance Feedback
This dissertation offers new insights on organizational decision making with respect to performance relative to aspirations and the role of external coalition members and reciprocal internal organizational responses. In doing so, it contributes to the behavioral theory of the firm literature. While …
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When problems knock at the organization's door - a theory of motivation to change, problemistic search and choice of action : organization theory under a behavioral lens
… discrepancies by first using their firm’s position relative to aspiration levels to make sense of observed performance, and then making decisions based on their own interpretations of available information. In particular, the theoretical and empirical contributions of this …
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The Impact of Human Capital on Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Outcomes
In the extant literature, innovativeness, opportunity identification, and performance of the firm are considered to be independently affected by the human capital (i.e., knowledge, skills, and experience) and entrepreneurship. The view that entrepreneurship involves both opportunity and people has …
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Organizational Capital Budgeting Model (Ocbm)
… Capital Budgeting Model (OCBM) is a general theory of capital budgeting that incorporates traditional capital budgeting theories and the consideration about firm's information/ organization structure. The traditional financial capital budgeting model is a special case of OCBM. Therefore, OCBM …