The question of whether and when to enter a newly emerging product market has beenthe focus of practitioners as well as researchers. This paper contributes to the literature byinvestigating the order of entry as well as pre-entry experiences with a population-basedapproach for the radically new...

The paper Investigates stability and change of regional economic activities in the longrun.As the unit of analysis we selected the machine tool industry in West Germany forthe years 1953 to 2002. We spot a strong variance in the activities between the differentregions. These differences are...