Current Search:   Castrogiovanni, Gary J. (x)

View All Items

  • CSV Spreadsheet
(1 - 6 of 6)
Aligning firm decision making processes with environmental conditions to enhance performance
Title
Aligning firm decision making processes with environmental conditions to enhance performance.
Creator
Cox, Kevin, Castrogiovanni, Gary J., Graduate College
Date Issued
2013-04-12
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361922
Subject Headings
Decision making--Research, Business Management, Organization--Decision making
Format
Document (PDF)
The Effects of Social Structure on Individual Actions: a Social Cognition and Social Structure Approach
Title
The Effects of Social Structure on Individual Actions: a Social Cognition and Social Structure Approach.
Creator
Knoche, Harry "Trip", Castrogiovanni, Gary J., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
This study examines the effects of epistemic motives and individual social structure (strength of social ties) on individual actions. lt has been suggested that the informal structure of relations that develops within firms affects the actions of individuals e effects of both epistemic motives and social structure are considered. The findings of this study suggest that information about the epistemic motives of employees can provide insight into the fonnation of the individual social...
Show moreThis study examines the effects of epistemic motives and individual social structure (strength of social ties) on individual actions. lt has been suggested that the informal structure of relations that develops within firms affects the actions of individuals e effects of both epistemic motives and social structure are considered. The findings of this study suggest that information about the epistemic motives of employees can provide insight into the fonnation of the individual social structures and the intrinsic desire of employees to take interdependent or independent actions. The effects of epistemic motives and individual social structure on individual actions, the organizing process and the formulation and implementation of strategies are discussed.
Show less
Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000309
Subject Headings
Motivation (Psychology)--Social aspects, Social networks--Psychological aspects, Social capital (Sociology), Managerial economics, Economics--Moral and ethical aspects
Format
Document (PDF)
Entrepreneurial Alertness, Metacognitive Knowledge, and Opportunity Identification
Title
Entrepreneurial Alertness, Metacognitive Knowledge, and Opportunity Identification.
Creator
Cox, Kevin, Castrogiovanni, Gary J., Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Management
Abstract/Description
The research study investigates factors that influence entrepreneur’s ability to identify new venture opportunities. Entrepreneurial alertness has been widely argued as fundamental to the opportunity identification process, yet this relationship remains largely unverified by empirical evidence. This study provides an explicit investigation into the implications of entrepreneurial alertness for opportunity identification as well as how metacognitive factors moderate the proposed relationship....
Show moreThe research study investigates factors that influence entrepreneur’s ability to identify new venture opportunities. Entrepreneurial alertness has been widely argued as fundamental to the opportunity identification process, yet this relationship remains largely unverified by empirical evidence. This study provides an explicit investigation into the implications of entrepreneurial alertness for opportunity identification as well as how metacognitive factors moderate the proposed relationship. First, Chapter 1 provides an overview the purpose, research questions, the significance of the study, and the conceptual framework. Next, a comprehensive review of the existing literature on opportunity identification is provided which is followed by the development of theoretical arguments, associated hypotheses, and the conceptual model. Subsequently, and overview of the research methodology and sampling procedure is presented. Finally, the analyses and results presented followed by a discussion, future research, and conclusions.
Show less
Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004581, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004581
Subject Headings
Entrepreneurship--Psychological aspects., Social entrepreneurship., Businesspeople--Psychology., Strategic planning., New business enterprises.
Format
Document (PDF)
Imprinting Effects of Founding Conditions, Structure, and Capabilities on Social and Financial Organizational Outcome Satisfaction
Title
Imprinting Effects of Founding Conditions, Structure, and Capabilities on Social and Financial Organizational Outcome Satisfaction.
Creator
Lortie, Jason, Castrogiovanni, Gary J., Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Management
Abstract/Description
My work investigates the effects of founding conditions for organizational founders on the eventual satisfaction founders have with the financial and social outcomes of their organization. First, I introduce two new constructs, social salience and economic salience, which represent the intended social or economic goals of the founder for their organization when they found the new organization. I then utilize organizational imprinting theory to argue that the social and economic salience,...
Show moreMy work investigates the effects of founding conditions for organizational founders on the eventual satisfaction founders have with the financial and social outcomes of their organization. First, I introduce two new constructs, social salience and economic salience, which represent the intended social or economic goals of the founder for their organization when they found the new organization. I then utilize organizational imprinting theory to argue that the social and economic salience, along with founders’ previous work experience, influence the structure of the new organization via the legal form. I then argue that the legal form influences the specific capabilities that the organization will acquire or create early in the organization’s life. Finally, I argue that the capabilities established at founding will influence the eventual satisfaction founders currently have with their organizations’ social and financial outcomes as the capabilities endure over time. Based on a sample of 150 organizational founders that are still actively managing their organizations, my results support the idea that founding conditions for individual founders influence the capabilities that their organizations create or acquire. Further, founders’ current level of satisfaction with the financial and social performance of their organizations is significantly related to these capabilities. These results largely support the process based model of imprinting effects on organizational outcomes, and suggest that founders play a critical role in setting the original imprint of an organization that will endure via organizational inertia, perhaps long after the imprint’s originally designed purpose.
Show less
Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004655, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004655
Subject Headings
Corporate governance, Organizational change -- Management, Performance -- Management, Performance -- Measurement, Rational expectations (Economic theory), Social entrepreneurship, Strategic planning
Format
Document (PDF)
EFFECTS OF GENERAL AND SPECIFIC HUMAN CAPITAL ON NEW VENTURE PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF GENDER
Title
EFFECTS OF GENERAL AND SPECIFIC HUMAN CAPITAL ON NEW VENTURE PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF GENDER.
Creator
Sherbondy, Sara, Castrogiovanni, Gary J., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Management, College of Business
Abstract/Description
This study tests a model that draws on human capital theory to explain how individual characteristics of founding entrepreneurs influence performance of their new businesses. Using data from Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship), this research study assesses the direct effect of gender on new venture performance and the moderating role of gender on the relationship between general and specific human capital and new venture performance.
Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014059
Subject Headings
Human capital, New Ventures (Firm), Gender
Format
Document (PDF)
A foot in both camps: the influence of role identity centrality of professional service entrepreneurs on entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance
Title
A foot in both camps: the influence of role identity centrality of professional service entrepreneurs on entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance.
Creator
Stewart, Steven Anthony, Castrogiovanni, Gary J., Hudson, Bryant A., Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Management
Abstract/Description
Professional service entrepreneurs (PSEs) paradoxically practice their profession in highly institutionalized contexts which require significant socialization, while at the same time enacting their role as an entrepreneur. Some activities consistent with entrepreneurship may be unnecessary for—and possibly even contradictory with— activities consistent with professional roles. In this dissertation, I addressed the questions of how two highly central role identities (professional and...
Show moreProfessional service entrepreneurs (PSEs) paradoxically practice their profession in highly institutionalized contexts which require significant socialization, while at the same time enacting their role as an entrepreneur. Some activities consistent with entrepreneurship may be unnecessary for—and possibly even contradictory with— activities consistent with professional roles. In this dissertation, I addressed the questions of how two highly central role identities (professional and entrepreneurial) related to entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in professional service practices, and how EO influences performance in the context of professional practices. Using a sample of 139 physicians, I examined the relationships between the role identity centrality of two primary roles (professional and entrepreneurial) that PSEs occupy, the EO of their firms, and firm performance. This study utilized a mixed methods design, consisting of both a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews administered to a sample of professionals who own professional practice firms in the southeastern region of Florida. Findings suggest a significant and positive relationship between entrepreneurial role identity centrality and entrepreneurial orientation and a marginally significant and negative moderation of entrepreneurial role identity centrality upon the relationship between professional role identity centrality and EO. A qualitative study served to elaborate on the findings of the quantitative study, and revealed the potential of very unique understandings of the intersection of entrepreneurship and professional practice across a selection of physicians.
Show less
Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004162, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004162
Subject Headings
Entrepreneurship--Mathematical models., Identity (Psychology), Organizational sociology., New business enterprises--Management., Success in business., Creative ability in business.
Format
Document (PDF)