Dominance by birthright: entry of prior radio producers and competitive ramifications in the U. S.

By Steven Klepper, Kenneth L. Simons. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Technological diversification, core-technology competence, and firm growth (2016, background): “An old and similar example can be found in Klepper and Simons (2000), which show the importance of core-technology competence in a prior industry (i.e., radio) in the probabilities of entry and survival and post-entry performance in a newly emerging industry (i.e., TV receiver).”
Toward a Behavioral Theory of Strategy (2012, background): “…1989, Tripsas 1997, Henderson and Clark 1990, Henderson et al. 1999), the role of entrants’ backgrounds on the chances of success (Carroll et al. 1996, Klepper and Simons 2000, Helfat and Lieberman 2002), issues of firm boundaries (Silverman et al. 1997, Karim and Mitchell 2000, Zollo et al.…”
Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities' Development (2005, background): “…have been found to have profound effects on their performance: In a number of new industries , preentry experience in " related " domains has been Organization Science 16(6), pp. 599–617, © 2005 INFORMS a key to competitive advantage (Mitchell 1989, Klepper and Simons 2000, Klepper 2002).”
Opportunity Costs and Non-Scale Free Capabilities: Profit Maximization, Corporate Scope, and Profit Margins (2010, background): “new field earlier and perform better (e.g., Helfat, 2003; Klepper and Simons, 2000; Mitchell,”
Selection and Firm Survival: Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, 18251914 (2005, background): “By the end of this period, 5 Lane (1989) for ATM, Mitchell (1991) for diagnostic imaging, Carroll et al. (1996) for autos, and Klepper and Simons (2000) for televisions show that diversifying firms with experience in related fields perform better along a variety of dimensions than less experienced…”
The Right People in the Wrong Places: The Paradox of Entrepreneurial Entry and Successful Opportunity Realization (2015, background): “…Sleeper, 2005; Shane, 2000) but also the likelihood the entrepreneurswill be successful in those settings, owing to the capabilities—both technical (Klepper & Simons, 2000) and nontechnical (Chatterji, 2009)—they gain in their prior life experience and transfer into the lifeblood of their new…”
Towards an Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Resilience (2015, background): “…from related industries, and thus, that the industrial structure of a regional economy has an impact on diversification opportunities of regions (KLEPPER and SIMONS, 2000; NEFFKE et al., 2011a; RIGBY, 2012; VAN DER WOUDEN, 2012; BOSCHMA et al., 2013, 2014b; ESSLETZBICHLER, 2013; MUNEEPEERAKUL…”
Technological pre-adaptation, speciation, and emergence of new technologies: how Corning invented and developed fiber optics (2006, background): “We believe that this study contributes to extant research on industry dynamics showing how prior experience positively affects new market entry decisions, firm performance, and the evolution of market structure, especially when firms leverage their prior experience in a different domain than the one”
New market creation through transformation (2005, neutral): “They contend that there is no theory of entrepreneurial/ﬁrm behavior that is consistent with the basic supply-push story of how new markets are created that has been articulated in evolutionary / Schum-peterian economics (Rosenberg, 1996; Klepper and Simons, 2000; Geroski, 2003).”
Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses (2021, background): “Historically, product innovation has led to industry shakeouts and changes in firm innovative strategy (Klepper & Simons, 2000; Utterback, 1987), and already evidence has emerged that AI has affected talent recruitment, healthcare, and legal industries (Cowgill, 2019; Galasso & Luo, 2018; Ramesh,…”
Why are Some Organizations More Competitive than Others? Evidence from a Changing Global Market (2004, background): “They concluded that this rationalization favors large firms (see also Cohen and Klepper, 1996; Klepper and Simons, 2000).”
Knowledge conversion capability and the performance of corporate and university spin-offs (2007, background): “Thus, spin-offs’ capability development activities are closely linked to the knowledge and capabilities that they inherit from their parents (Carroll et al., 1996; Klepper and Simons, 2000; Moray and Clarysse, 2005).”
Cognition and Capabilities: A Multi-Level Perspective (2013, methodology): “The “pre-histories” of organizations create potential capabilities that can be leveraged in new sets of activities (such as entry into new markets) (Eggers, 2012a; Holbrook, Cohen, Hounshell, & Klepper, 2000; King & Tucci, 2002; Klepper & Simons, 2000).”
Related Variety, Trade Linkages, and Regional Growth in Italy (2009, background): “6 There is increasing awareness that new sectors do not start in isolation; they often emerge out of related sectors on which they build and expand (Klepper and Simons 2000).”
Strategic Renewal of Organizations (2009, background): “Diversifying entrants benefit directly from their scale and pre-entry experience (Klepper and Simons 2000).”