Why Do Firms Imitate Each Other

By Marvin B. Lieberman, Shigeru Asaba. 2006

1,105 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Safety Research, Strategy and Management

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Michael Lounsbury
2. Kevin Zheng Zhou
3. Danny Miller
4. G. Fisher
5. J. Child
6. G. Tyge Payne
7. Laszlo Tihanyi
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In Safety Research

1. Riitta Katila
2. Eric Chen
3. Jianglei Zou
4. G. Fisher
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7. Ivan Savin
8. J. Bergh

In Strategy and Management

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5. G. Fisher
6. Ruby Po Wan Lee
7. Eric Chen
8. Michael Lounsbury

Citations in the corpus

• Bigger and safer: the diffusion of competitive advantage (2009, background): “perceived risks of using an older technology ( Lieberman and Asaba, 2006 ).”
• A review of agent‐based modeling of climate‐energy policy (2020, background): “The older literature on firms and innovation already recognized interaction between firms as a determinant of firm strategies (Lieberman & Asaba, 2006; Nelson & Winter, 1982).”
• Effects of Search Timing on Innovation: The Value of Not Being in Sync with Rivals (2008, background): “Rivals become locked into head-to-head races in which they try to stay competitive, with relatively homogeneous resources (Barnett, 1997; Lieberman and Asaba, 2006).”
• How Much to Copy? The Contingent Value of Imitation Capabilities (2007, neutral): “On the other hand, a different line of research states that firms may only be able to learn from others when their resource endowments are similar (Lieberman and Asaba, 2006).”
• Is Product Imitation Good for Firm Performance? An Examination of Product Imitation Types and Contingency Factors (2012, background): “Pure Versus Creative Imitation Theories that explain imitation behavior are diverse, ranging from economics and sociology to organizational perspectives (for reviews, see Ethiraj and Zhu 2008; Lieberman and Asaba 2006).”
• Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Poverty Alleviation (2014, background): “In these risky conditions, once the entrepreneur successfully discovers the opportunity, others are able to quickly imitate and compete away the profits (Lieberman & Asaba, 2006; Schumpeter, 1934).”
• Entry Timing (2015, background): “These authors also note that firms are more likely to enter an international market earlier when more competitors enter early, which is consistent with theories of imitation (Lieberman & Asaba, 2006) and bandwagon effects (Knickerbocker, 1973).”
• Situational and institutional determinants of firms' R&D search intensity (2007, background): “Imitation also may be pursued as a strategy to mitigate risk in contexts of competitive rivalry (Lieberman and Asaba, 2006).”