Entrepreneurial value creation: three essays examining how entrepreneurs create value under conditions of uncertainty

This dissertation consists of three essays examining how entrepreneurs create value under conditions of uncertainty. The first essay theoretically examines the process of stakeholder enrollment through which entrepreneurs acquire critical resources for their endeavors under informational conditions of risk and uncertainty. The second essay uses text-based analysis methodologies to empirically examine how far entrepreneurial mobile application developers attempting to create value do, and should, pivot in response to performance feedback. The third essay uses text-based analysis methodologies to empirically examine the optimal level of differentiation from the prototypical and exemplar category members for apps published by de novo mobile application developers.