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SUMMARY:Seminar MTEI by Prof. Dimo Dimov\, University of Bath
DTSTART:20121203T120000
DTEND:20121203T133000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dimo Dimov (University of Bath)\n"The road more travelle
 d: The entrepreneurial ecology of college textbooks and the Internet"\n\nA
 bstract:\nIn this paper\, we employ a community ecology perspective to und
 erstand how characteristics of local communities affect the intensity of e
 ntrepreneurial efforts in response to exogenous technological change. Our 
 empirical focus is on the college textbook industry in the US and the adve
 nt of the internet\, based on a dataset of 325 internet-based\, textbook-o
 riented ventures founded between 1996 and 2009\, organized by state (commu
 nity). We find that the rate of founding of such ventures increases with t
 he penetration of internet applications in other populations within the co
 mmunity\, reflecting commensalistic effects. We also find that this relati
 onship weakens with factors that affect the potential entrepreneurs' judgm
 ent in evaluating third-person opportunities in first-person terms\, such 
 as the rarity and inimitability of the opportunity. Our findings open up n
 ew avenues for bridging ecological and individuals’ perspectives in entr
 epreneurship research.
LOCATION:ODY 4.03\, VIP room http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=20&recenter_y=58638
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