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New venture strategy : timing, environmental uncertainty, and performance

Title
New venture strategy : timing, environmental uncertainty, and performance / Dean A. Shepherd, Mark Shanley.
Author
Shepherd, Dean A.
Publication
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1998], ©1998.

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Shanley, Mark (Mark T.)
Description
112 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Entrepreneurship and the management of growing enterprises
Uniform Title
Entrepreneurship and the management of growing enterprises.
Subject
  • New business enterprises > Management
  • Barriers to entry (Industrial organization)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-106) and index.
Contents
1.. Common Wisdom on the Timing of Entry -- The Common Wisdom on Pioneering -- New Venture Profitability: A Simple Perspective -- Common Wisdom on New Venture Survival -- Simplistic or Oversimplistic? -- 2.. Environmental Stability, Timing, and New Venture Performance -- Demand Uncertainty -- Technological Uncertainty -- Pioneer's Inertia -- 3.. Educational Capability, Timing, and New Venture Performance -- Customer Uncertainty of Organizational Identity -- Customer Uncertainty of Management -- Customer Uncertainty of Industry's Product -- Product Type -- New Venture Performance -- Educational Capability, Timing, and Profitability -- Educational Capability, Timing, and Probability of Survival -- 4.. Barriers to Entry, Timing, and New Venture Performance -- Lead Time -- Lead Time, Timing of Entry, and Profitability -- Lead Time, Timing of Entry, and Probability of Survival -- The Costs and Benefits of Competitive Rivalry -- Managing Lead Time: What to Do? -- 5.. Scope of Entry and Degree of Mimicry: Two Factors That Affect New Venture Uncertainty -- Entry Scope -- Narrow Is Better -- Broad Is Better -- Scope, Timing, and Profitability -- Scope, Timing, and Probability of Survival -- Entry Wedge Mimicry -- Why Would a New Entrant Imitate? -- Who Do Firms Imitate? -- Types of Entry Wedge Mimicry -- Mimicry, Timing, and New Venture Performance -- 6.. Competence, Timing of Entry, and New Venture Performance -- Competence -- New Venture Competence -- New Venture Competence and Competitive Advantage: How Independent and Corporate Ventures Differ -- Conclusions: What to Do? -- 7.. Conclusion and Summary.
ISBN
  • 076191353X (acid-free paper)
  • 0761913548 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
98025305
OCLC
  • 39157711
  • ocm39157711
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries