JAVALGI, Rajshekhar; CUTLER, Bob; TODD

An Application of an Ecological Model to Exoplain the Growth of Strategies of Internet Firms : - Oxford : Elsevier, August 2004

Companies doing business on the Internet have experienced environmental turbulence from early growth and subsequent decline as businesses failed. The Internet provides a unique oppotunity to examine the evolution of a business sector over a relatively short time period. Biological models to represent and predict the competitive dynamics within a business sector have been utilized. Using the applicability of using a model of population dynamics to companies that have survived the burst of the Internet bubble, specifically the cases of Amazon and eBay