A search strategy for assessing a business opportunity

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 140-154

  Shepherd, Dean A ^a   Lévesque, Moren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision model; Dynamic programming; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Opportunity recognition search; Optimal stopping; Sequential information gathering

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

ENTREPRENEURSHIP;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0036564453     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2002.1010882     Document Type: Article

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