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Olga M. Khessina
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
khessina@haas.berkeley.eduGlenn R. Carroll
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
518 Memorial Way
Stanford, CA 94305
carroll_glenn@gsb.stanford.edu
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Report 2001-04 November, 2001
The Information Storage Industry Center
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
University of California
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La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
http://isic.ucsd.edu/
University of California, San Diego
Funding for the Information Storage Industry Center is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To receive a hard copy of this document, send an e-mail with your address to the Publications Coordinator at isic@ucsd.edu.
Olga M. Khessina and Glenn R. Carroll
Abstract
In this paper we developed a concept suggesting that initial entry conditions experienced by start-ups and diversified firms affect the behavior and fates of their products. Specifically, we predicted that in capital intensive industries, initial entry conditions confer advantages to diversifiers from related industries. As a result, these firms are likely to ship more models of products than start-ups. Products made by diversifiers are likely to have a longer market life span and exert a stronger competitive pressure than those made by start-ups. We tested these predictions on all products ever shipped in the worldwide optical disk drive industry, 1983-1999. The statistical analysis largely supported our theoretical predictions.Click here to download the paper (PDF format)
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