Abrams, J. B. (2001). Quantitative business valuation: A mathematical approach for today’s professional. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Adamson, A. P. (2006). BrandSimple: How the best brands keep it simple and succeed (1st ed.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Afuah, A., & Tucci, C. L. (2001). Internet Business Models and Strategies. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Amabile, T. M., Hadley, C. N., & Kramer, S. J. (2002, August). Creativity under the gun. Harvard Business Review.
American Cancer Society. (2010). Cancer Facts & Figures 2010. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from American Cancer Society Web site: http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/CancerFactsFigures/cancer-facts-and-figures-2010
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. (2003). Exposure Draft of the AICPA Practice Aid, Valuation of privately-held-company equity securities issued in other than a business combination (pp. 20–26). New York, NY: AICPA.
An, J. M., Hunt, R. G., & Sanders, G. L. (1993). The role of domain coverage and consensus in a network of learning and problem solving systems. In R. Blanning & D. King (Eds.), Current research in decision support technology (pp. 227–240). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.
Anderson, D. M. (2010). Design for manufacturability & concurrent engineering: How to design for low cost, design in high quality, design for lean manufacture, and design quickly for fast production. Cambria, CA: CIM Press.
Anderson, S. P. (2008). Product differentiation. In S. N. Durlauf & L. E. Blume (2nd ed.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Gordonsville, VA: Palgrave Macmillan.
Annacchino, M. A. (2006). The pursuit of new product development: The business development process. Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Applegate, L. M., Simpson, K. A., White, M., & McDonald, C. (2010). CommonAngels. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing.
Arora, N., Dreze, X., Ghose, A., Hess, J. D., Iyengar, R., Jing, B., Joshi, Y., Kumar, V., Lurie, N., Neslin, S., Sajeesh, S., Su, M., Syam, N. B., Thomas, J., & Zhang, Z. J. (2008). Putting one-to-one marketing to work: Personalization, customization and choice. Marketing Letters 19, 305–321.
Arthur, W. B. (1989). Competing technologies, increasing returns, and lock-in by historical events. The Economic Journal 99(394), 116–131.
Athreye, S., & Kapur, S. (2009). Introduction: The internationalization of Chinese and Indian firms—Trends, motivations and strategy. Industrial and Corporate Change 18, 209–221.
Barney, J. (1991). Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management Information Systems 17(1), 99–120.
Becerra, M. (2009). Theory of the firm for strategic management: Economic value analysis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Belcourt, M. (2006). Outsourcing—The benefits and the risks. Human Resource Management Review 16(2), 269–279.
Bertini, M., & Wathieu, L. (2010). How to stop customers from fixating on price. Harvard Business Review 88, 84–91.
Bitner, M. J., Ostrom, A. L., & Morgan, F. N. (2008). Service blueprinting: A practical technique for service innovation. California Management Review 50(3).
Borden, M. (2009, September). Nokia rocks the world: The phone king’s plan to redefine its business. Fast Company.
Brakman, S., & Heijdra, B. J. (2004). The monopolistic competition revolution in retrospect. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Brooks, D. (2011). The social animal: the hidden sources of love, character, and achievement. Random House.
Burke, A., van Stel, A., & Thurik, R. (2009). Blue Ocean versus competitive strategy: Theory and evidence. ERIM Report Series (ERS-2009-030-ORG.), Rotterdam, Netherlands: Erasmus Research Institute of Management.
Burnham, T. A., Frels, J. K., & Mahajan, V. (2003). Consumer switching costs: A typology, antecedents, and consequences. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 31(2), 109–126.
Cavusgil, S. T., Knight, G., Riesenberger, J., & Yaprak, A. (2009). Conducting market research for international business. New York, NY: Business Experts Press.
Cerveny, R., Garrity, E., & Sanders, G. L. (1986). The Application of prototyping to systems development: A rationale and model. Journal of Management Information Systems 3(2), 52–62.
Cerveny, R., Garrity, E., & Sanders, G. L. (1990). A problem solving perspective on systems development. Journal of Management Information Systems 6(4), 103–122.
Chambers, K. D. (2007). The entrepreneur’s guide to writing business plans and proposals. Westport, CT Greenwood Publishing Group.
Choate, P. (2005). Hot property: The stealing of ideas in an age of globalization. New York, NY:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Coase, R. H. (1937). The nature of the firm. Economica 4(16), 386–405.
Cohen, W. M., & Levinthal, D. A. (1990). Absorptive capacity: A new perspective on learning and innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly 35, 125–152.
Cornell, B. (1993). Corporate valuation: Tools for effective appraisal and decision-making, Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin.
de Bono, E. (1999). Six thinking hats (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Back Bay Books.
Delmar, F., & Davidsson, P. (2000). Where do they come from? Prevalence and characteristics of nascent entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 12, 1–23.
Donovan, P. (2010, October). Some adversity makes us stronger. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from SUNY Buffalo Web site: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2010_10_21/seery_adversity
Dyer, J. H., Gregersen, H. B., & Christensen, C. M. (2009, December). The innovator’s DNA. Harvard Business Review.
Evans, F. C., & Bishop, D. M. (2001). Valuation for M&A: Building value in private companies, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Federal Trade Commission. (n.d.-a). Exclusionary or predatory acts: Predatory pricing. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from Federal Trade Commission Web site: http://www.ftc.gov/bc/antitrust/predatory_pricing.shtm
Federal Trade Commission. (n.d.-b). Price discrimination among buyers: Robinson-Patman violations. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from Federal Trade Commission Web site: http://www.ftc.gov/bc/antitrust/price_discrimination.shtm
Fitzpatrick, B. W., & Lueck, J. J. (2010). The case against data lock-in. Communications of the ACM 53(11), 42–46.
Ganskopp, D. C. (2006). Altering beef cattle distribution within rangeland pastures with salt and water. Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center SR1057, 61–63.
Gardner, H. (1994). Creating minds: An anatomy of creativity seen through the lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Garrity, E., & Sanders, G. L. (Eds. and contributors). (1998). Information systems success measurement. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, now IGI Global.
Garrity, E., Glassberg, B., Kim, Y. J., Sanders, G. L., & Shin, S. K., (2005). An experimental investigation of electronic commerce success factors for web-based information systems. Decision Support Systems 39(3), 485–503.
Gartner. (n.d.). Gartner hype cycle. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from Gartner Web site: http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp
Garud, R., & Nayyar, P. (1994). Transformative capacity: Continual structuring by inter-temporal technology transfer, Strategic Management Journal 15(4), 365–385.
Gerby, M. (1995). The E-myth revisited: Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Goldenberg, J., & Mazursky, D. (2002). Creativity in product innovation (1st ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Gompers, P., Kovner, A., Lerner, J., & Scharfstein, D. (2010, April). Performance persistence in entrepreneurship. Journal of Financial Economics 96(1), 18–32.
Gopal, R., & Sanders, G. L. (2000). Global software piracy: You can’t get blood out of a turnip. Communications of the ACM 43(9), 82–89.
Grant, R. M. (2007). Contemporary strategy analysis: Concepts, techniques, applications (6th ed.). Malden: MA Wiley-Blackwell.
Grove, A. (2010, July 5). How America can create jobs. Bloomberg Business Week.
Grueber, M., & Studt, T. (2011, December). 2011 Global R&D funding forecast—Industrial R&D: Life sciences. R&D Magazine.
Han, J., Kim, N., & Srivastava, R. K. (1998). Market orientation and organizational performance: Is innovation the missing link? The Journal of Marketing 62(4), 30–45.
Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R. (1995). A life-span theory of control. Psychological Review 102(2), 284–304.
Henry, A. (2007). Understanding strategic management. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Heracleous, L., & Wirtz, J. (2010, July–August). Singapore Airlines balancing act. Harvard Business Review.
Herbert, W. (2009, February). A recipe for motivation: Easy to read, easy to do. Scientific American.
Highfield, R., & Carter, P. (1993). The private lives of Albert Einstein. London: Faber and Faber.
Hofstede, G., & Hofstede, G.-J. (2004). Cultures and organizations: Software of the mind. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Horan, J. (2007). The one-page business plan. Berkeley: The One Page Business Plan Company.
Huefner, R. J., Largay, J. A., III, and Hamlen, S. S. (2005). Advanced financial accounting (9th ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson Custom Publishing.
Huefner, R. J., Largay, J. A., III, and Hamlen, S. S. (2007). Advanced financial accounting (10th ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson Custom Publishing.
Hülsheger, U. R., Anderson, N., & Salgado, J. F. (2009). Team-level predictors of innovation at work: A comprehensive meta-analysis spanning three decades of research. Journal of Applied Psychology 94(5), 1128–1145.
Humphrey, A. S. (2005, December). SWOT analysis for management consulting. SRI Alumni Association Newsletter.
Ihnatko, A. (2009, January 22). Microsoft opens Windows 7, shuts door on Vista. Chicago Sun Times.
IPS Associates. (1997). Project management manual, developed by, Harvard Business School, October 6.
Isaacson, W. (2008). Einstein: His life and universe. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Iyer, R., & Muncy, J. A. (2005). The role of brand parity in developing loyal customers. Journal of Advertising Research 45(2), 222–228.
Jain, S. C. (2000). Marketing planning & strategy (6th ed.). Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Publishing.
Jo, S., Moon, J., Garrity, E. J., & Sanders, G. L. (2007). Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and commitment behavior: An integrated model, AMCIS 2007 Proceedings. Paper 70.
Jones, G. E., & Van Dyke, D. (1998). The business of business valuation (p. 1). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (1996, January–February). Using the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system. Harvard Business Review, 75–85.
Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (2003a, September 15). Lock-in strategies: A new value proposition. Harvard Business Review 5(5).
Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (2003b). Strategy maps: Converting intangible assets into tangible outcomes. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing.
Kawasaki, G. (2008). Reality check: The irreverent guide to outsmarting, outmanaging and outmarketing your competition (1st ed.). New York, NY: Penguin Group.
Keller, K. L., & Tybout, A. (2002). The principle of positioning. Market Leader 19 Winter.
Keller, K. L., Sternthal, B., & Tybout, A. (2002, September). Three questions to ask about your brand. Harvard Business Review, 80–89.
Kim, W. C., & Mauborgne, R. (2005). Blue ocean strategy: How to create uncontested market space and make competition irrelevant. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Kim, Y. J., & Sanders, G. L. (2002). Strategic actions in information technology investments based on real option theory. Decision Support Systems 33, 1–11.
Kirzner, I. M. (1973). Competition and entrepreneurship (1st ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Kotler, P., & de Bes, F. T. (2003). Lateral marketing: New techniques for finding breakthrough ideas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Laursen, K., & Salter, A. (2006). Open for innovation: The role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms. Strategic Management Journal 27, 131–150.
Leavitt, H. J. (1965). Applying organizational change in industry: Structural, technological, and humanistic approaches. In J. G. March (Ed.), Handbook of organizations. Chicago: Rand-McNally.
Lenskold, J. (2003). Marketing ROI: The path to campaign, customer, and corporate profitability. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Professional.
Lieberman, D. (2003, January 29). Turner quits as AOL loss hits $99B. USA Today.
Liebowitz, S. J., & Margolis, S. E. (1994). Network externality: An uncommon tragedy. Journal of Economic Perspectives 8, 133–150.
Lipsey, R. G., & Chrystal, K. A. (2007). Economics (11th ed.). New York, NY: Oxford Press.
Lubart, T. I. (2001). Models of the creative process. Creativity Research Journal 13(3&4), 295–308.
Lupien, S. J., McEwen, B. S., Gunnar, M. R., & Heim, C. (2009). Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behavior and cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10, 434–445.
Lyons, D. (2010a, January 4). The customer is always right. Newsweek.
Lyons, D. (2010b, September 1). Apple’s shuffle: No one innovates better. Newsweek.
Madsen, J. B. (2007). Are there diminishing returns to R&D? Economics Letters 95, 161–166.
Malhotra, N. K., & Birks, D. F. (2009). Marketing research: An applied orientation (6th ed.). Lebanon, Indiana, IN: Prentice Hall.
Manjoo, F. (2010, July/August). Apple nation. Fast Company.
Markoff, J. (2008, January 15). The passion of Steve Jobs. New York Times. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from New York Times Web site: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/the-passion-of-steve-jobs/
Matheson, J., & Matheson, D. (1998). The smart organization: Creating value through strategic R&D. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Mauboussin, M. (1999). Get real. New York, NY: Credit Suisse First Boston.
May, G. L. (2010). Strategic planning fundamentals for small business. New York, NY: Business Experts Press.
McConnell, C. R., Brue, S. L., & Campbell, R. R. (2004). Microeconomics: Principles, problems, and policies (16th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Professional.
McGrath, R. G., & MacMillan, I. (2000). The entrepreneurial mindset. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Michalko, M. (2006). Thinkertoys: A handbook of creative-thinking techniques (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press.
Miller, C. C. (2010, November 28). Google grows, and works to retain nimble minds. New York Times, p. A1.
Moore, G. E. (1999). Crossing the chasm: Marketing and selling high-tech products to mainstream customers. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Moore, G. E. (n.d.). Intel executive biographies Retrieved August 17, 2011, from Intel Web site: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/moore.htm
Mun, J. (2005). Real options analysis: Tools and techniques for valuing strategic investment and decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Nalebuff, B., & Ayres, I. (2003). Why not? How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.
Noor, J. (2009). Hyperbolic discounting and the standard model: Eliciting discount functions. Journal of Economic Theory 144(5), 2077–2083.
Nørreklit, H. (2000). The balance on the balanced scorecard: Critical analysis of some of its assumptions. Management Accounting Research 11, 65–88.
O’Sullivan, D., & Dooley, L. (2008). Applying innovation. Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Ohanian, H. C. (2008). Einstein’s mistakes. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co.
Oz Shy, C. F. (2008). How to price: A guide to pricing techniques and yield management. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Panagiotou, G. (2003). Bringing SWOT into focus. Business Strategy Review 14(2), 8–10.
Patent Technology Monitoring Team. (n.d.). U.S. Patent Statistics Chart Calendar Years 1963–2010. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Web site: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm
Phillips, R. (2005). Pricing and revenue optimization (11th ed.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Pierce, J. L., Kostovab, T., & Dirks, K. T. (2003). The state of psychological ownership: Integrating and extending a century of research. Review of General Psychology 7(1), 84–107.
Pisano, G. P., & Shih, W. C. (2009). Restoring American competitiveness. Harvard Business Review 87, 114–125.
Porter, M. E. (1980). Competitive strategy. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Porter, M. E. (1985). Competitive advantage. New York, NY: The: Free Press.
Porter, M. E. (1998). Competitive advantage: Creating and sustaining superior performance. New York, NY: Free Press.
Porter, M. E. (2008). The five competitive forces that shape strategy. Harvard Business Review, 86(1).
Prahalad, C. K. (2006). The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid: Eradicating poverty through profits. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing.
Prahalad, C. K., & Hamel, G. (1990). The core competence of the corporation. Harvard Business Review, 68(3).
Pratt, S. P. (2001). Business valuation: Discounts and premiums (pp. 20, 79). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Pratt, S. P., Reilly, R. F., & Schweihs, R. P. (1993). Valuing small businesses and professional practices. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin.
Project Management Institute. (2004). A guide to the project management body of knowledge. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute, Inc.
Raustiala, K., & Sprigman, C. (2006). The piracy paradox: Innovation and intellectual property in fashion design. Virginia Law Review 92(8), p. 1719.
Reichheld, F. F., & Schefter, P. (2000). E-loyalty your secret weapon on the web. Harvard Business Review 78(4), 105–115.
Rose, F. (2002, March). The father of creative destruction. Wired 10.
Roth, C. (2011). The entrepreneur equation: Evaluating the realities, risks, and rewards of having your own business. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books.
Runco, M. A. (2006). Creativity theories and themes: Research, development and practice. Burlington, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.
Sahlman, W. A. (1997, July-August). How to write a great business plan. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review, 98–108.
Sahlman, W. A., & Flaherty, S. G. (2010). NovaCure Ltd., Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing.
Sarasvathy, S. D., & Venkataraman, S. (2008). Ought to can: Questions for an entrepreneurial future. Included in ten papers selected for the first World Entrepreneurship Forum held under the aegis of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Evian, November 13–15.
Sawyer, R. K. (2006). Explaining creativity: The science of human innovation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Schank, R., & Cleary, C. (1995). Engines for education. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Schmoch, U. (2007). Double-boom cycles and the comeback of science-push and market-pull. Research Policy 36, 1000–1015.
Schwartz, B. (2003). The paradox of choice (1st ed.). New York, NY: HarperCollins Press.
Selling, T. (2009, February 10). High “power distance” at the SEC: Why madoff was allowed to take investors down with him. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from The Accounting Onion Web site: http://accountingonion.typepad.com/theaccountingonion/2009/02/high-power-dist.html
Shapiro, C., & Varian, H. R. (1998). Information rules: A strategic guide to the network economy. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Sims, P. (2011). Little bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries. New York, NY: Free Press.
Skinner, E. A. (1996). A guide to constructs of control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 71(3), 549–570.
Slavin, S. (2008). Microeconomics (8th ed.). New York, NY: Irwin/ McGraw-Hill.
Slee, R., & Paglia, J. (2010, March/April). The Value Examiner. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from Pepperdine University Web site: http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/privatecapital
Spence, M. (1981). The learning curve and competition. The Bell Journal of Economics 12, 49–70.
Stuck, B., & Weingarten, M. (2005). How venture capital thwarts innovation. IEEE Spectrum 42(4), 50–55.
Sugden, R. (1984). Is fairness good? A critique of Varian’s theory of fairness. Nous 18, 505–551.
Takeuchi, H., & Nonaka, I. (1986, January). New product development game. Harvard Business Review.
The Printed World. (2011, February 10). Three-dimensional printing from digital designs will transform manufacturing and allow more people to start making things. The Economist.
Trigeorgis, L. (1996). Real options: Managerial flexibility and strategy in resource allocation. The MIT Press.
Tybout, A. M., & Sternthal, B. (2005). Brand positioning. In A. Tybout & T. Calkins (Eds.), Kellogg on branding (pp. 11–26). John Wiley & Sons.
Varian, H. R. (1996). Differential pricing and efficiency. First Monday 1.
Varian, H. R. (1997). How to build an economic model in your spare time. In M. Szenberg (Ed.), Passion and craft: Economists at work. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Varianini, V., & Vaturi, D. (2000). Marketing lessons from E-failures. McKinsey Quarterly 4, 86–97.
VC MIKE. (2010). Guest blogger Bob Metcalfe: Metcalfe’s law recurses down the long tail of social networks. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from VCMIKE’s Blog: http://vcmike.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/metcalfe-social-networks/
Verganti, R. (2009). Design driven innovation: Changing the rules of competition by radically innovating what things mean. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.
Wallas, G. (1926). The art of thought. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Wang, S. C., & Chern, J. Y. (2008). The “Night Owl” learning style of art students: Creativity and daily rhythm. International Journal of Art & Design Education 27(2), 202–209.
Why not? About the book. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from Why Not Web site: http://www.whynot.net/main/about_book.php
Wikepedia. Croesus. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from Wikipedia Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus
Williamson, O. E. (1985). The economic institutions of capitalism. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Wolverton, T. (2000). Amazon backs away from test prices. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from cnet NEWS Web site: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-245631.html
