Competition, strategic delegation and delay in technology adoption

A. Mahati () and Rupayan Pal
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Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Abstract: This paper examines how strategic managerial delegation affects firms' timing of adoption of a new technology under different modes of product market competition. It demonstrates that delegation has differential impacts on adoption dates under Cournot and Bertrand competition. Delegation with 'own-performance' based incentive schemes always leads to early adoption in markets with Bertrand competition compared to that under no-delegation, but not necessarily so in markets with Cournot competition. It also shows that the ranking of Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in terms of delay in adoption depends on the type of managerial incentive schemes. Adoption occurs earlier (later) in markets with Cournot competition than in markets with Bertrand competition, if product differentiation is high (low), regardless of whether there is no-delegation or delegation with 'own-performance' based incentive schemes. In contrast, under strategic delegation with 'relative-performance' based incentive schemes, adoption dates do not differ across markets with different modes of competition.

Keywords: Technology adoption; Strategic delegation; Own-performance; Relative-performance; Cournot; Bertrand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L22 O31 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2013-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cdm, nep-com, nep-cse, nep-ind and nep-reg
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