We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...

With the emergence of digital multi-sided platform (DMSP) ecosystems, scholars are revisiting core strategic frameworks created in traditional settings. We examine how variation in pioneer firm characteristics may impact two critical platform governance strategies — single vs. multi-firm...

The paper decomposes the determinants of firm survival into firm and product (industry) attributes. Industry attributes, we hypothesize, encompass primarily exogenous variables that exert their influence both over time and across markets. These consist mainly of the characteristics of demand and...

The paper examines historical changes in the duration of the interval between the commercial introduction of a new product and the time when entry by later competitors begins. The paper begins by examining a priori reasons why the duration of this interval in the U.S. economy may either expand...

We integrate insights from organizational capabilities, organizational economics, and industry evolution to examine the firm’s decisions regarding the organization of activities in a value chain, and test our hypotheses using a near census of US bio-ethanol producers during the 1978-2009...

We investigate the relationship between firms' entry characteristics and their subsequent performance contingent on environmental turbulence and stage of industry life cycle by simulating industry as an NKC landscape. Diversifying entrants differ from entrepreneurial startups in terms of the...

Questioning the underlying assumptions of the process of creative destruction, we conceptualize an alternative process of creative construction that may characterize the dynamics between entrants and incumbents. We discuss the underlying mechanism of knowledge spillover strategic...