This study explores the contingencies relating firm experience to product development capabilities, focusing on experience type (breadth v. depth) and timing (prior v. concurrent). Results from empirical tests in the U.S. mutual fund industry offer two primary findings. First, firms increase...

This paper investigates the post-entry implications of pre-entry technological choices made during the uncertain period before a dominant design. Building on work on technological dynamics and organizational inertia, I argue that too early commitments to the winning technology may impede the...