mode is meant a firm's strategy (innovation or imitation) for entering the market in response to environmental changes …

frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates … technology diffusion, with the productivity of imitation modeled by a catch-up function that increases with distance to the …

research and trademark law have mostly focused on the effects of feature imitation. In three studies, the authors demonstrate … the success of copycats imitating the theme of the leader brand. Consumers consider feature imitation to be unacceptable … imitation, it is perceived to be more acceptable and less unfair, which helps copycat evaluation …

This study examines the effects of different uncertainty types on interorganizational imitation in firm exit decisions … than foster) observational learning and subsequent imitation. We test this theory using a 29-year panel data set on the … exit of private venture capital firms. Our results indicate that observational learning does influence imitation in firm …

This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct … imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of FDI. The increase in FDI more than offsets the decline in production undertaken …