Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge

By Oded Shenkar. 2010

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Business and International Management

1. G. Mcdermott
2. Rajneesh Narula
3. Mike W. Peng
4. Ram Mudambi

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Rajneesh Narula
2. Ram Mudambi
3. G. Mcdermott
4. W. Shi
5. Jaideep Anand
6. D. Ahlstrom
7. Mike W. Peng
8. Shawn Carraher

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Mike W. Peng
2. D. Ahlstrom

Citations in the corpus

• Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research (2021, background): “Some innovations are based on non-traditional replication and imitation, and such firms have been described as copycats (Shenkar, 2010).”
• An institution-based view of global IPR history (2017, background): “A ‘‘copycat’’ strategy has been successfully employed by a number of Chinese firms, which have transformed themselves to become more innovative on their own (Shenkar, 2010; Williamson & Yin, 2014).”