Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32654 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Economics and Evolution No. 0922
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
The question of whether and when to enter a newly emerging product market has been the focus of practitioners as well as researchers. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the order of entry as well as pre-entry experiences with a population-based approach for the radically new product market of multifunctional machine tools for the case of Germany between 1949 and 2002. Estimation results show, that later entrants outperform pioneers. Moreover, it turns out that industry and technology specific capabilities do not increase survival chances. But when decomposing the known positive age effect on survival, we see that particularly dynamic capabilities, i.e. the competence to integrate additional business activities into the current product portfolio, significantly lower the risk of failure in the new product market.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
843.68 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.