The video game industry has grown to become one of the, if not the, largest entertainment industries in the United States. Part of this growth can be attributed to advances in the technology that powers the games industry, which allows games to become increasingly realistic and immersive. In the...

The twinned challenge for entrepreneurial groups is recognizing new ideas and implementing them. In one view, connectivity reaching outside the group channels new ideas while closure makes it possible to act on them. We argue that entrepreneurship is not about importing information but about...

In this paper we study the case of a Wall Street investment bank that lost its entire office and trading technology in the terrorist attack of September 11th. The traders survived, but were forced to relocate to a makeshift trading room in New Jersey. During the six months the traders spent...