The birth of capabilities: market entry and the importance of pre-history

By Constance E. Helfat, Marvin B. Lieberman. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Incumbent Performance in the Face of a Radical Innovation: Towards a Framework for Incumbent Challenger Dynamics (2012, neutral): “Helfat and Leiberman (2002), Iansiti et al.”
Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship? (2009, positive): “…a¤ect contracting between employees and employers; transferable human capital and limited asset complementarity within existing rms; and organizational limitations of incumbents such as bureaucracy and rigid routines (Henderson 1993; Anton and Yao 1995; Klepper 2001; Helfat and Lieberman 2002).”
Technology, Identity, and Inertia Through the Lens of "The Digital Photography Company" (2009, background): “Recent work has explored where strategies come from (Gavetti and Rivkin 2007, Helfat and Lieberman 2002), but relating that work to identity would be promising.”
Learning Sequences: Their Existence, Effect, and Evolution (2012, background): “This research also suggests that in these situations, prehistory resources, such as the prior experience of executives, likely play a salient role (Helfat & Lieberman, 2002).”
The dynamic impact of innovative capability and inter-firm network on firm valuation: A longitudinal study of biotechnology start-ups (2010, neutral): “Indeed, previous studies using archival data derived a capability measure from observable data (Helfat and Lieberman, 2002).”
The Role of Network Resources in Market Entry: Commercial Banks' Entry into Investment Banking, 1991–1997 (2003, background): “The transferability of market ties and network status may therefore represent an important base for market entry that has been overlooked in prior research focusing on economic industry structure or firm-specific resources (Caves, 1998; Helfat and Lieberman, 2002).”
Cognition and Capabilities: A Multi-Level Perspective (2013, background): “Given recent work highlight the importance of pre-entry experience as potential driver of organizational performance (Eggers, 2013; Helfat & Lieberman, 2002; Sosa, 2013), understanding how managers perceive and (re)deploy existing capabilities toward new potential uses would seem to be an extremely…”
The Process of Creative Construction: Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth (2007, positive): “…venture capability and performance due to scientifi c, market-based, psychological, and social knowledge that they bring from their parent organizations, thus resulting in systemic heterogeneity in entrant capabilities (Carroll et al., 1996; Helfat and Lieberman, 2002; Klepper and Simons, 2000).”
Strategic choice during economic crisis: Domestic market position, organizational capabilities and export flexibility (2009, background): “This is consistent with Hennart and Park (1994) and Chang (1995) who found that the advertising intensity of Japanese firms did not positively affect foreign expansion efforts (Helfat & Lieberman, 2002).”
Epistemic Communities and Cluster Dynamics: On the Role of Knowledge in Industrial Districts (2004, background): “Unsurprisingly, therefore, the activities of most new firms are in one way or the other related to the activities of existing ones (Helfat and Lieberman, 2002).”
Growing pains: Pre-entry experience and the challenge of transition to incumbency† (2012, background): “As a stand-alone firm, spin-outs lack the experience of functioning in a competitive environment and producing goods and services (Helfat and Lieberman, 2002). industry, Holbrook et al. (2000) describe how de novo firms Shockley and Fairchild Semiconductor, unfettered by past electrochemical…”
Where do resources come from? The role of idiosyncratic situations (2004, background): “While factors such as initial endowments and prior commitments (Eisenhardt and Schoonhoven, 1990; Helfat and Lieberman, 2002), timing (Stinchcombe, 1965; Zott, 2003), and managerial capabilities (Knott, 2003) each provide intriguing explanations for heterogeneity, these answers still beg the…”
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER THROUGH INHERITANCE: SPIN- OUT GENERATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND SURVIVAL (2004, background): “Under the general definitions from Helfat and Lieberman (2002), entrants into the disk drive industry can be grouped into four categories.”