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The Department of Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management develops, delivers and administers programs that prepare you to distinguish yourself within an existing organization or pursue your own entrepreneurial dream.
The entrepreneurship emphasis provides a business education focused on both starting new businesses and creating value through innovation in existing businesses. An entrepreneurial mindset provides an edge regardless of discipline. From law and IT to management and marketing, a focus on entrepreneurship is great preparation for any professional field.
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The Systemic Risk of Consolidation in the Cloud Computing Industry
(2021)The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of consolidation within the cloud computing industry related to the reliability and availability of computing resources. This dissertation begins by assessing the scale ... -
An analysis of the decision to formally register a new venture in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021)This dissertation considers the factors that influence the decision to formally register a new venture, by nascent entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding these factors is important because registration is the ... -
An attention-based view on environmental exigencies and opportunity valuation
(2021)Attention-based view of the firm (ABV) combines structural components of the task environment with cognitive components of the decision-maker, developing a comprehensive perspective of strategic behavior. ABV suggests ... -
CEO narcissism and strategic entrepreneurial behaviors: the moderating role of industry environment
(2021)The role of firm-level entrepreneurial behavior in explaining firm performance is well established in the entrepreneurship literature. Scholars can capture firm-level entrepreneurial behavior employing strategic entrepreneurial ... -
Emerging Methods for Use of Real-World Clinical Data for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research
(2021)The purpose of this dissertation is to describe methods for use of real-world data resources to study quality of care and outcomes for patients with critical limb ischemia. We used the Cerner Health Facts de-identified EHR ... -
Capturing the strategic pivot: Identifying the performance outcomes of new venture pivots
(2020)Although pivoting is one of the most recognizable and highly taught subjects in entrepreneurship, relatively little empirical work has been done to establish the causal impact that it has on new venture performance. This ... -
The case for humble and narcissistic leadership: creative self-efficacy and idea generation in entrepreneurial settings
(2020)Based on social-cognitive theory and a paradox perspective, this dissertation explores how leader narcissism and leader humility together moderate the influence of domain-specific self-efficacy on the type-specific innovative ... -
Of floods and gales: environmental value creation due to creative destruction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Recent discussions on environmental issues, such as global climate change, implicates many of the wider processes studied by scholars in the management sciences. As a result, there has been considerable debate regarding ... -
Opportunity Recognition: A Contingency Framework of Individual Attributes, Time Pressure, and Uncertainty
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)This dissertation clarifies individual differences in opportunity recognition as a precursor to starting a new business. Using a contingency perspective, time pressure and uncertainty are hypothesized to moderate the ... -
Understanding and Adapting to Crowd Behavior: A Study of Wireless Networks and Entrepreneurial Crowdfunding
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)The advances of the future will demand scholars have a systemic vision to solve problems. Integration across disciplines is needed to study, explain, inquire and discover beyond the traditional borders of academic areas. ... -
Hybrid Fuzzy-Bayesian Dynamic Decision Support Tool for Resource-Based Scheduling of Construction Projects
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This dissertation proposes a flexible and intelligent decision support tool for scheduling and resource allocation of construction projects. A hybrid Fuzzy-Bayesian scheduling network and a new optimization model and ... -
Essays on Complexity and Design Thinking in Entrepreneurship
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)The New venture creation context is experiencing unprecedented change. Rapid shifts in technology, customer needs, and institutions have translated into a very complex, uncertain, and dynamic landscape, for those who ... -
The Influence of Director Human Social Capital and Firms' Entrepreneurial Orientation on Corporate Entrepreneurship
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)This dissertation explores the link between corporate governance and corporate entrepreneurship. Surprisingly, our understanding of how boards of directors influence corporate entrepreneurship decisions and actions has ... -
Entrepreneurial Search, Innovation, and Initiative: The Stage, Network, and Level Analysis
(2016)Drawing on the lean startup model, network theory, institutional theory, learning theory, and symbiosis view, this dissertation examines three important issues of entrepreneurship. This dissertation consists of three ... -
Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Microfinance Institutions
(2016)This dissertation focuses on the interface between social ventures, particularly microfinance institutions, and their institutions. The first two parts of this dissertation work focus on the impact of institutional ... -
The Financialization of the Business Enterprise
(2015)This dissertation focuses on the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of the financialization of the business enterprise. The first chapter argues that the transition from the Post-War SSA to the Contemporary ... -
Toward a search perspective on entrepreneurship
(2014-07-17)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 ... -
The governance-performance relationship: examining the impact of nonprofit governance on financial performance in medium-sized nonprofit organizations
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)As the nonprofit sector has grown rapidly in size and significance in recent decades, the role and impact of governance of nonprofit organizations have become increasingly important and popular topics among nonprofit ... -
Intention, economic opportunity and their impact on venture creation
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-11-07)This dissertation includes three essays and focuses on nascent entrepreneurship, that period in an entrepreneur's pursuit between first taking an action to form a venture and either getting the venture operational or ... -
The paradox of prosperity in China: the interplay among entrepreneurs, government, and venture capitalists at initial public offering
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-16)This dissertation includes three essays and focuses on a key entrepreneurial event in a life of a new venture, the initial public offering. Each essay investigates the mechanisms through which three key players, namely ...