An application of an ecological model to explain model the growth of strategies of internet firms : the cases of eBay and Amazon
By: JAVALGI, Rajshekhar
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Contributor(s): CUTLER, Bob | TODD, Patricia.
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Pergamon, August 2004Subject(s): Modelo Ecológico | Growth strategies | Population growth | Comércio Eletrônico | Internet | eBay | AmazonEuropean Management Journal 22, 4, p. 464-470Abstract: Companies doing business on the Internet have experienced environmental turbulence from early growth and subsequent decline as businesses failed. The Internet provides a unique opportunity 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 analogy of strategies used in natural systems, this paper will demonstrate 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
Companies doing business on the Internet have experienced environmental turbulence from early growth and subsequent decline as businesses failed. The Internet provides a unique opportunity 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 analogy of strategies used in natural systems, this paper will demonstrate 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
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