An Application of an Ecological Model to Explain the Growth of Strategies of Internet Firms:: The Cases of eBay and Amazon

Rajshekhar Javalgi, Bob Cutler and Patricia Todd

European Management Journal, 2004, vol. 22, issue 4, 464-470

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Ecological; models; Growth; strategies; Population; growth; e-Commerce; Internet; eBay; Amazon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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