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ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM FORMATION: THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INTENSITY AND DECISION MAKING ON ORGANIZATIONAL EMERGENCE

SMITH, BRETT R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179165544

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2007, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Business Administration : Business Administration.
This dissertation offers a lens to understand the critical processes of organizational emergence by examining the network processes and outcomes in the development of early stage entrepreneurial founding teams. In addition, this dissertation explores the important boundary condition of high technology and its effect on the early stage network processes. Using a mixed methodology approach, this dissertation explores the question of how founders construct organizations. In the quantitative section, panel data is used to explore how the level of technological intensity affects the organizational demography and social network structure of the founding team. Results from logistic regression show the level of technology affects the motives through which founders constructed organizations. Increasing levels of technology are associated with greater demographic diversity and lower density social networks. These findings highlight the role of technological intensity as an important antecedent to organizational demography and social network structure. In the qualitative section, in-depth interviews were conducted with 40 early stage entrepreneurs and team members to explore how the decision making process affects the construction of organizations. Through this analysis, a series of three grounded conceptual models are developed to explain the mutual decision making process of entrepreneurial team formation: 1.) the first model highlights the role of individual level factors (e.g., attitude towards networking) and situational factors (e.g., geography) in the identification and screening processes of decision making; 2.) the second conceptual model explores the opportunity costs of pursuing different search processes in the identification of team members; and 3.) the third model identifies the overall marginal benefits of different search processes after accounting for both the benefits and costs of each search process. Taken together, these models describe how the decision making process affects organizational emergence.
Dr. Glen Kreiner (Advisor)
237 p.
Business Administration, Management
entrepreneurial teams; entrepreneurship; organizational emergence; social networks; demography; high technology

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  • SMITH, B. R. (2007). ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM FORMATION: THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INTENSITY AND DECISION MAKING ON ORGANIZATIONAL EMERGENCE [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179165544

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • SMITH, BRETT. ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM FORMATION: THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INTENSITY AND DECISION MAKING ON ORGANIZATIONAL EMERGENCE. 2007. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179165544.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • SMITH, BRETT. "ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM FORMATION: THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INTENSITY AND DECISION MAKING ON ORGANIZATIONAL EMERGENCE." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179165544

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