Beyond Incumbents and Entrants: An Empirical Exploration of Product Line Management Strategy after Radical Technological Change

Research on firm performance after the introduction of a radical technological change has primarily concerned itself with differences between incumbents and entrants. This paper explores other factors that may influence firm performance over the longer term after a radical change -- specifically, th...

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Main Author: JONES, Neil
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-10172010-09-23T06:24:04Z Beyond Incumbents and Entrants: An Empirical Exploration of Product Line Management Strategy after Radical Technological Change JONES, Neil Research on firm performance after the introduction of a radical technological change has primarily concerned itself with differences between incumbents and entrants. This paper explores other factors that may influence firm performance over the longer term after a radical change -- specifically, those related to product line development strategy. Following a radical change, a period of incremental technological change typically creates the opportunity for rapid development of new products. In such settings, strategies to manage multiple products, including families of products that may be derived from a common platform, may be expected to impact competitive performance. The data for the study are from the telecommunications switching sector, specifically the private branch exchange (PBX) industry. 56 firms and over 240 new products were analyzed over 22 years. For the literature on competition after radical technological change, this study shows that incumbent-entrant based explanations of firm performance are incomplete. Specifically, the results demonstrate that various dimensions of product line strategy explain significant additional variation in firm performance. 1999-08-01T07:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/18 info:doi/10.5465/APBPP.1999.27637615 Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Innovation adoption technological innovations financial performance technology transfer organizational change rapid protyping Strategic Management Policy Technology and Innovation
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
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country Singapore
Singapore
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topic Innovation adoption
technological innovations
financial performance
technology transfer
organizational change
rapid protyping
Strategic Management Policy
Technology and Innovation
spellingShingle Innovation adoption
technological innovations
financial performance
technology transfer
organizational change
rapid protyping
Strategic Management Policy
Technology and Innovation
JONES, Neil
Beyond Incumbents and Entrants: An Empirical Exploration of Product Line Management Strategy after Radical Technological Change
description Research on firm performance after the introduction of a radical technological change has primarily concerned itself with differences between incumbents and entrants. This paper explores other factors that may influence firm performance over the longer term after a radical change -- specifically, those related to product line development strategy. Following a radical change, a period of incremental technological change typically creates the opportunity for rapid development of new products. In such settings, strategies to manage multiple products, including families of products that may be derived from a common platform, may be expected to impact competitive performance. The data for the study are from the telecommunications switching sector, specifically the private branch exchange (PBX) industry. 56 firms and over 240 new products were analyzed over 22 years. For the literature on competition after radical technological change, this study shows that incumbent-entrant based explanations of firm performance are incomplete. Specifically, the results demonstrate that various dimensions of product line strategy explain significant additional variation in firm performance.
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title Beyond Incumbents and Entrants: An Empirical Exploration of Product Line Management Strategy after Radical Technological Change
title_short Beyond Incumbents and Entrants: An Empirical Exploration of Product Line Management Strategy after Radical Technological Change
title_full Beyond Incumbents and Entrants: An Empirical Exploration of Product Line Management Strategy after Radical Technological Change
title_fullStr Beyond Incumbents and Entrants: An Empirical Exploration of Product Line Management Strategy after Radical Technological Change
title_full_unstemmed Beyond Incumbents and Entrants: An Empirical Exploration of Product Line Management Strategy after Radical Technological Change
title_sort beyond incumbents and entrants: an empirical exploration of product line management strategy after radical technological change
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 1999
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/18
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