First-mover literature suggests several pioneering advantages and disadvantages. This study investigates how managerial … perceptions of these pioneering advantages affect first-mover decisions by service provider managers. According to the literature … on mental models, managers will make first-mover decisions based on their perceptions of pioneering advantages and …

how the size of the low-end market influences a firm's profits and the pioneering firm's quality choice. As low …. Conventional wisdom also suggests that the pioneering firm will offer a higher-quality product and earn more profits compared with …

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine how dense and cohesive social networks can lead to pioneering. In this sense, the … link among the structural social capital and the pioneering. Design/methodology/approach – Focusing on a sample of 224 … pioneering. In this sense, a positive and significant relationship is found between structural social capital and pioneering …

Pioneering versus Following in Emerging Markets The Case of the Automotive Industry in China and Brazil DISSERTATION …

competition and pioneering innovation and consider the moderating role of absorptive capacity for this relationship, using the … Canadian Innovation Data. We find a U-shaped relationship between foreign competition and pioneering innovation: when foreign … competition increases from a low to a moderate level, the likelihood of pioneering innovation decreases. However, the likelihood …

line and expanding rapidly into related markets. Whether such a strategy leads to a pioneering profit advantage relative to … followers also depends on its cost effects. In this paper, we examine when the market share advantage of a pioneering firm with … increase the pioneering cost disadvantage, and thus results in a pioneering profit advantage. On the other hand, with a …

Existing literature discusses a number of possible pioneering cost advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we … empirically test three different sources of long-term pioneering cost advantage—, and —and three different sources of pioneering … industrial goods, we find support for five of the six sources of pioneering cost advantage and disadvantage in both samples …

performance. We replicate the typical demand-side pioneering advantage but find an even, which is the source of the pioneering …