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...

We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...

I investigate whether two mechanisms leading to biased beliefs about success, overconfidence and competition neglect, influence decisions to enter competitive environments. I use a controlled laboratory setting that allows to elicit belief distributions related to absolute as well as relative...

We analyze the effect of competition in market-accessibility enhancement among quality-differentiated firms. Firms are located in regions with different ex-ante transport costs to reach the final market. We characterize the equilibrium of the two-stage game in which firms first invest to improve...

We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...

We investigate the relationship between new business formation and the level of competitive pressure perceived by manufacturing incumbent establishments. The perceived pressure of competition is stronger the higher the level of entries in the respective industry. This relationship holds not only...

We analyze the effect of competition in market-accessibility enhancement among quality-differentiated firms. Firms are located in regions with different ex-ante transport costs to reach the final market. We characterize the equilibrium of the two-stage game in which firms first invest to improve...

Many incumbent firms, when facing increasing threats from newcomers, choose to license their proprietary technologies to competitors. This paper investigates the motivation behind an incumbent firm's strategy to open up its technology to a new entrant and the entrant's decision to adopt the...