Incumbent Entry into New Market Niches: The Role of Experience and Managerial Choice in the Creation of Dynamic Capabilities

Andrew A. King () and Christopher Tucci
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Andrew A. King: New York University Stern School of Business, Kaufman Management Center, 8-71, 44 West 4th Street, New York, New York 10012

Management Science, 2002, vol. 48, issue 2, 171-186

Abstract: Increasingly, technological innovation creates markets for new products and services. To survive, firms must respond to these new markets. How do firms develop the capabilities necessary to succeed in such changing conditions? Some suggest that experience with previous entry builds such capabilities. Others suggest that capabilities arise from experience producing and selling to existing markets. The role of managers is also debated. Some argue that experience with existing markets causes managers to miss entry opportunities. Others argue that managers enter new markets when their firm possesses the experience needed to compete effectively. In this paper, we explore these issues by investigating entry patterns in the disk-drive industry. We investigate the effect of experience in existing markets and experience with previous market entry. We find that experience in previous markets increased the probability that a firm would enter a new market. We show that this experience had greater value if the firm entered the new market. We infer that managers chose to enter these markets to obtain this increase in value.

Keywords: Disk Drives; Dynamic Capabilities; Niche Innovation; Market Entry; Organizational Inertia; Experience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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