Product Demography of De Novo and De Alio Firms in the Optical Disk Drive Industry, 1983--1999

Olga M. Khessina () and Glenn R. Carroll ()
Additional contact information
Olga M. Khessina: Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Glenn R. Carroll: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Organization Science, 2008, vol. 19, issue 1, 25-38

Abstract: Little theory and research addresses the ways organizational context affects the demography of products. We examine this question here by focusing on an organization's mode of market entry. Specifically, we explore differences between firms entering a market de novo (start-up) and those entering de alio (diversification from another market). We analyze all products ever shipped in the worldwide optical disk drive (ODD) industry, 1983--1999. We find an almost paradoxical empirical pattern, whereby de novo firms typically introduce products with widely agreed upon “better” (that is, universally more appealing) technological characteristics. Yet these products generally stay on the market for a shorter time than those of de alio firms, whose products generally display less appealing technological features.

Keywords: organizational entry mode; de novo and de alio organizations; product demography; product exit; product turnover; organizational ecology; optical disk drive industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (34)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0301 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:ororsc:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:25-38

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Organization Science from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().