Previous research has considered extensively the causes and effects of market entry order and timing. It has neglected, however, the timeliness of such entry mdash; the degree to which a firm delivered a new product on the date it had set for its release. In this article, we begin to fill the...

We analyze entry of a firm with a new and differentiated product into a market with two properties: An existing incumbent has a captive consumer base, and all consumers have heterogeneous tastes. The interaction of the share of captive consumers with the degree of taste heterogeneity leads to...

Die Auseinandersetzung mit Problemstellungen der strategischen Unternehmensführung war in den letzten Jahren von der Konkurrenz zwischen markt- und ressourcenorientierten Ansätzen geprägt. Mittlerweile hat sich jedoch die Auffassung durchgesetzt, dass beide Perspektiven zwei Seiten der selben...

The paper inquires whether a public eco-label mitigatesadverse selection, where an ecologically superior (green) product variant is underprovided. A model, integrating entry into a perfectly competitive, vertically differentiated industry and rationally expected quality structure (REQS) under...