Essays on Firm Growth and Survival as a Fortune 500 Firm

In this dissertation, I develop frameworks and models capturing the effects of marketing capital and R and D capital on firm growth and sustained membership in the Fortune 500 cohort. Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and industrial organization theories, in the first essay, I dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vadakkepatt, Gautham Gopal
Other Authors: Shankar, Venkatesh
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
Subjects:
R&D
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8532