scholarly journals The Role of Industry Dynamics in the Persistence of First Mover Advantages

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Gomez ◽  
Gianvito Lanzolla ◽  
Juan Pablo Maicas
Keyword(s):  
Industry Dynamics ◽  
First Mover

scholarly journals Accessing the Danish Labour Market: On the Coexistence of Legal Barriers and Enabling Factors

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Liv Bjerre ◽  
Michelle Pace ◽  
Somdeep Sen
Keyword(s):  
Market Structure ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Labour Rights ◽  
Legal Barriers ◽  
First Mover

AbstractHistorically, Denmark was a “first-mover” as a signatory to liberal international humanitarian laws and conventions, especially with regard to refugees. Yet, in recent years Denmark has cherished the role of a different kind of “first mover” – namely as hardliner when it comes to immigration policies. This is evident in the existent political discourse and restrictive immigration policies personified not least in the number of times Denmark has altered (and tightened) immigration regulations. Yet, we demonstrate that, while “barriers” exist in terms of entering Denmark, the Danish labour market structure is such that it ends up facilitating refugees’ integration and legally protecting their labour rights. To be sure, this protection is a way of guaranteeing the rights of Danish workers who would adversely be affected by the proliferation of an unregulated labour market where refugees are compelled to work under worse legal and economic conditions. However, the Danish case ends up being one where, counterintuitively, legal barriers (to entering the labour market) coexist alongside enabling factors (legal guarantees) of refugees’ rights.

Overcoming Stakeholder Barriers in the Automotive Industry: Building to Order with Extra-Organizational Systems

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickey Howard ◽  
Richard Vidgen ◽  
Philip Powell
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Organizational Systems ◽  
Industry Dynamics ◽  
Order Model ◽  
Second Tier

The automotive industry must significantly change its outdated and unprofitable ‘sell-from-stock’ business model to a streamlined ‘build-to-order’ model. Extra-organizational systems (EOS) enable multiple firms to share industry-level systems linked by electronic portals and hubs. Successful EOS implementation requires a coordinated effort among various stakeholders including customers, dealers, vehicle manufacturers, first- and second-tier suppliers and logistics firms. However, each of these stakeholders erects different but significant structural, managerial, user and technical barriers to EOS. This paper analyses these stakeholder barriers and prescribes how they must be managed in order to implement EOS successfully. Three recommendations raise concern over (1) the differentiation between EOS and inter-organizational systems, (2) industry dynamics, particularly the role of suppliers and customers and (3) supply topology, i.e. the importance of World Wide Web services and standards in creating electronic markets.

The Effect of Non-Market Strategies in the Mobile Industry

2011 ◽  
pp. 194-207
Author(s):  
Zulima Fernández ◽  
Belén Usero Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Mobile Telecommunications ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Mobile Industry ◽  
Market Strategies ◽  
Mobile Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Practical Recommendations ◽  
First Mover

This chapter analyzes the role of non-market actions (NMAs) in the competitive position of firms in the European mobile telecommunications industry. First, the bases and uses of NMAs are reviewed and classified. Second, the use of legal actions as NMAs to erode the competitive position of first-mover firms is examined. Third, the findings of an empirical study confirming the effectiveness of legal actions as competition tools in the European mobile telecommunications industry are analyzed. Lastly, some conclusions, future lines of research and practical recommendations are presented.

Evolutionary Approaches to Innovation, the Firm, and the Dynamics of Industries

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-289
Author(s):  
Gino Cattani ◽  
Franco Malerba
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Evolutionary Strategies ◽  
Industry Dynamics ◽  
The Road ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectories ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Important Progress ◽  
Made In

We examine the progress of the evolutionary research on innovation, the firm, and the dynamics of industries in the last four decades. The paper acknowledges that the themes related to knowledge and technological regimes, the evolutionary processes leading to innovation, and the long-term dynamics of technologies have generated, and still remain, relevant research trajectories. The same can be said for the research trajectories on organizational and dynamic capabilities, evolutionary strategies, vertical integration, diversification, niche construction, and authority and power in organizations. Important progress has also been made in understanding the evolutionary trajectories of industries, the link between industry architecture and industry dynamics, the types of knowledge of entrants, the role of focal and vertical spinouts, the relevance of institutions and sectoral innovation systems in industry dynamics, and the catch-up process by firms from latecomer countries. We argue that future developments in the evolutionary camp should continue to be characterized by eclecticism and multidisciplinarity, as well as by the integration of different methodologies from cases to stylized facts, quantitative analyses, appreciative theorizing, and formal modelling. We conclude with an analysis of the main methodologies used by evolutionary scholars and a discussion of the road ahead.

scholarly journals Neighborhood Information Exchange and Voter Participation: An Experimental Study

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENS GROßER ◽  
ARTHUR SCHRAM
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
First Mover ◽  
Do So

We study the effect of social embeddedness on voter turnout by investigating the role of information about other voters' decisions. We do so in a participation game, in which we distinguish between early and late voters. Each late voter is told about one early voter's turnout decision. Cases are distinguished where the voters are allies (support the same group) or adversaries (with opposing preferences) and where they are uncertain about each other's preferences. Our experimental results show that the social embeddedness matters: this information increases aggregate turnout by approximately 50%. The largest effect is observed for allies. Early voters strategically try to use their first mover position and late voters respond to this.

scholarly journals Industry dynamics, technological regimes and the role of demand

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 1073-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Almudi ◽  
Francisco Fatas-Villafranca ◽  
Luis R. Izquierdo
Keyword(s):  
Industry Dynamics ◽  
Technological Regimes

scholarly journals More Order with Less Law: On Contract Enforcement, Trust, and Crowding

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Bohnet ◽  
Bruno S. Frey ◽  
Steffen Huck
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Contract Enforcement ◽  
Contractual Relationship ◽  
Contract Performance ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
First Mover

Most contracts, whether between voters and politicians or between house owners and contractors, are incomplete. “More law,” it typically is assumed, increases the likelihood of contract performance by increasing the probability of enforcement and/or the cost of breach. We examine a contractual relationship in which the first mover has to decide whether she wants to enter a contract without knowing whether the second mover will perform. We analyze how contract enforceability affects individual performance for exogenous preferences. Then we apply a dynamic model of preference adaptation and find that economic incentives have a nonmonotonic effect on behavior. Individuals perform a contract when enforcement is strong or weak but not with medium enforcement probabilities: Trustworthiness is “crowded in” with weak and “crowded out” with medium enforcement. In a laboratory experiment we test our model’s implications and find support for the crowding prediction. Our finding is in line with the recent work on the role of contract enforcement and trust in formerly Communist countries.

The Critical Role of Market Segmentation

2011 ◽  
pp. 162-177
Author(s):  
Thierry Rayna ◽  
Ludmila Striukova ◽  
Samuel Landau
Keyword(s):  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
First Mover ◽  
Do So

The aim of this research is the investigate the role played by market segmentation, in general, and by the choice of initial market segment, in particular, in the ability of a product to cross the chasm. To do so, a theoretical framework, enabling to explain the ability of some firms to cross this chasm, while many others remain unsuccessful is developed. The key result of this research is that the choice of initial market segment has crucial importance as adoption in this segment can lead to a cascade of adoption in the other segments. To illustrate this proposition, three cases studies of an historical leader (Sony), a first mover (Archos) and a newcomer (Apple) in the market for digital audio players are presented.

scholarly journals Launching Revolution: Social Media and the Egyptian Uprising’s First Movers

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 1025-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Killian Clarke ◽  
Korhan Kocak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Media Data ◽  
First Mover

AbstractDrawing on evidence from the 2011 Egyptian uprising, this article demonstrates how the use of two social media platforms – Facebook and Twitter – contributed to a discrete mobilizational outcome: the staging of a successful first protest in a revolutionary cascade, referred to here as ‘first-mover mobilization’. Specifically, it argues that these two platforms facilitated the staging of a large, nationwide and seemingly leaderless protest on 25 January 2011, which signaled to hesitant but sympathetic Egyptians that a revolution might be in the making. It draws on qualitative and quantitative evidence, including interviews, social media data and surveys, to analyze three mechanisms that linked these platforms to the success of the January 25 protest: (1) protester recruitment, (2) protest planning and coordination, and (3) live updating about protest logistics. The article not only contributes to debates about the role of the Internet in the Arab Spring and other recent waves of mobilization, but also demonstrates how scholarship on the Internet in politics might move toward making more discrete, empirically grounded causal claims.

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