The paper analyses the birth of the Encryption Software Industry (ESI), a new niche in the software industry. Using a … Chandlerian perspective, this work reports the main facts about firm entry and growth, with a particular focus on start … firm competitive advantages. This work shows that innovation and product differentiation, along with investments in co …

This study analyzes incumbent entry timing decisions in new markets in the case of Encryption Software (ES). In ES … inertia embedded in the decision process of potential entrants. We find that entry decision is not the outcome of firm …

This paper analyzes the birth of the Encryption Software Industry (ESI), a new market niche in the software industry …. This work will report the main facts of entry and exit process, focusing on firm post-entry performance, on the different … established electronic firms like IBM and Motorola to accumulate knowledge in encryption software technology.Empirical evidence …

This study analyzes incumbent entry timing decisions in new markets in the case of Encryption Software (ES). In ES … inertia embedded in the decision process of potential entrants. We find that entry decision is not the outcome of firm …

-Classification: D21, J23, L80, O30 Keywords: Employment growth; Entrepreneurship; Entry; Innovation; Knowledge-intensive business … the firms’ post-entry development. Nevertheless, few existing studies are dealing with questions of entrepreneurship in …, innovation and user-producer interaction in the KIBS sector, functional and regional integration are particularly decisive for …

, innovation and userproducer interaction in the KIBS sector, functional integration and spatial proximity are particularly … empirical analysis of the determinants of post-entry performance of KIBS. The results of the estimation of firm growth equations …

, innovation and userproducer interaction in the KIBS sector, functional integration and spatial proximity are particularly … empirical analysis of the determinants of post-entry performance of KIBS. The results of the estimation of firm growth equations …

presence of network externalities tends to make the entrepreneur prefer sale to entry. Moreover, we also show that the … incentive to innovate for entry decreases when network effects become stronger, whereas there is an increase in the incentive … for innovation for sale. Moreover, we show that increasing the degree of industry-wide standardization furthers the goal …