Too Much of a Good Thing? Product Proliferation and Organizational Failure

By William P. Barnett, John H. Freeman. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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The Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing Effect in Management (2013, unknown): “…that investing in research and development (Jones & Williams, 2000; O’Brien, Drnevich, Crook, & Armstrong, 2010) and, relatedly, offering more (Barnett & Freeman, 2001; Iyengar & Lepper, 2000) and more differentiated products (Thompson, Hamilton, & Rust, 2005) can lead to diminishing…”
Going, going, gone: exit forms and the innovative capabilities of firms (2012, unknown): “In the strategy literature, studies on firm survival give the greatest emphasis to the consequences of product technology strategies (Banbury and Mitchell 1995, Christensen et al. 1998, Barnett and Freeman 2001, Bayus and Agarwal 2007).”
Growing pains: Pre-entry experience and the challenge of transition to incumbency† (2012, background): “Ganco and Agarwal's (2009) literature review documents evidence for a diversifying firm advantage (Barnett and Freeman, 2001; Klepper and Simons, 2000), a de novo advantage (Agarwal et al., 2004; Khessina and Carroll, 2008), and a combination of the two (Bayus and Agarwal, 2007; Carroll et al.,…”
Niche width revisited: organizational scope, behavior and performance (2006, methodology): “…temporarily disrupt existing routines and demand new roles, procedures, and relationships, firms that more frequently introduce new products that push the firm into new regions of the resource space likely face a higher risk of failure (Dowell and Swaminathan, 2000; Barnett and Freeman, 2001).”
Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure to Facilitate a Firm's Customer Agility and Competitive Activity: An Empirical Investigation (2012, background): “For instance, firms that simultaneously release multiple products in rapid fashion often experience substantial disruptions and market failure [5].”
From Invention to Innovation: Conversion Ability in Product Development (2006, background): “As with speed and time pressure, prior research on problem solving implies a nonlinear (inverted U-shaped) effect of number of ideas on conversion ability (e.g., Barnett and Freeman 2001; Damos 1991).”
Product innovation in emerging market-based international joint ventures: An organizational ecology perspective (2008, background): “An important source of ecological contingencies is interdependence of organizations, or so-called mutualism, in the same industry or location (Barnett & Carroll, 1987; Barnett & Freeman, 2001; Silverman et al., 1997).”
Firm and industry effects on firm performance: A generalization and extension for new ventures (2009, background): “Survival has been found to be related to the strength of resource bases (Brüderl, Preisendorfer and Ziegler, 1992), to asset levels (Bates, 1990) and to product offerings (Barnett and Freeman, 2001).”
When is more better? The impact of business scale and scope on long-term business survival, while controlling for profitability (2007, background): “Similarly, ecological studies note the challenge of bounded rationality that constrains the size of operations and number of routines that firms can manage efficiently (Barnett and Freeman, 1997).”
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm - 40 Years and Counting: Introduction and Impact (2007, background): “These concepts have helped population ecology scholars and learning scholars start a stream of research integrating concerns of learning and competition in models of organizational change, performance, and survival (e.g., Ingram and Baum 1997, Barnett and Freeman 2001).”