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Full-Text Articles in Business
Recognizing And Exploiting New Opportunities In Times Of Chaos And Unintended Impacts, Ryan Matthews
Recognizing And Exploiting New Opportunities In Times Of Chaos And Unintended Impacts, Ryan Matthews
Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations
Select entrepreneurs are successful for a reason. They have been able to use their alertness and prior knowledge, among other skill sets, to identify and exploit new opportunities. However, when new opportunities are identified outside of their area of expertise, will they choose to pursue these opportunities, or stick to the behaviors that are most comfortable? While several studies have been conducted looking at the characteristics of the entrepreneur, or the experiences faced by the entrepreneur, there is a gap in the current literature when combining these two elements. The current literature lacks an understanding as to how the environment …
Capital Structure In The Family Firm: Exploring The Relationship Between Financial Sources And Family Dynamics, Diego G. Velez
Capital Structure In The Family Firm: Exploring The Relationship Between Financial Sources And Family Dynamics, Diego G. Velez
Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations
How a company structures its capital greatly affects its strategic options and its strategic decisions according to contemporary thinking. However, while there is ample literature on how publicly held companies’ capital should be structured, less is known about private companies. Additionally, one or more members of a single family typically own the majority of private companies, and unlike public companies, family dynamics influence these firms’ non-financial and financial goals and strategic decisions. This overlap of family dynamics into the business arena complicates conventional approaches or at least makes conventional approaches more difficult to apply.
This dissertation focuses on privately held, …
The Scent Of Change: A Case Study, William K. Foxx, Melissa C. Northam, Corlette S. Burns
The Scent Of Change: A Case Study, William K. Foxx, Melissa C. Northam, Corlette S. Burns
Atlantic Marketing Journal
Decisions about entering into a new business venture involve a variety of considerations, despite the level of experience an entrepreneur has. This case presents the story of a business owner Bennett Gage and his decisions concerning whether or not he should enter into a business where canines are used to detect bed bugs in hotels. This case study gives the reader an opportunity to wrestle with some of the many questions that are part of entering into the creation of a new service.
Setting The Stage For Individual Ambidexterity In Organizations: The Effects Of Context And Individual Regulatory Mode On Explorative And Exploitative Behavior, Fernando Garcia
Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations
In response to changing customer demands and increasing competition, companies must balance the need to exploit their current capabilities with the need to explore new capabilities to sustain long-term success. Balancing this duality is at the core of the ambidexterity concept. While ambidexterity research mostly has focused at the firm level of analysis, recent literature indicates the need to analyze the concept at the individual level to increase our understanding of where ambidexterity takes place and how it emerges from context. Understanding the dynamics of the ambidexterity phenomenon at its most basic level will provide organizations with knowledge on how …