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Item Competitive advantage development in the National Hockey League: the roles of asset stocks, asset flows, and entrepreneurship(Texas Tech University, 1999-12) Rock, Terence ThomasAsset stocks and asset flows have been conceptualized in firm resource theory as having distinct, yet implicitly related, effects on an organization's competitive advantage. However, there still remain important theoretical questions regarding the nature of the process firms undergo in developing competitive advantage. This dissertation conceptualizes competitive advantage development as a fundamentally entrepreneurial process, with two main types of entrepreneurial acts at the core. The setting of the study, the National Hockey League (NHL), provides a rich source of data, through a long time series (1984-1997). The first type of entrepreneurial act—the acquisition of resources at a discount to their future strategic value—is operationalized in this study using social network variables created using a database of over 21,000 player movements in the league during the time of the study. The second type of entrepreneurial act—the creation of resources necessary to gain advantage—is operationalized in this study using measures that capture a team's use of its farm system, the average tenure of players on the team, and different types of changes made in the team through time.