In this study, we posed the questions: (i) What network mechanisms do family firms (FFs) use in their entry and post-entry? (ii) How they these mechanisms? (iii) Why We based our study on social theory, two opposing mechanisms, closure structural holes, referring also to research FFs international networking. Applying a multiple case design with 15 Finnish FFs, identified four types of – trotte...

Rising health care costs are of significant public concern. A sizable portion of these costs stems from the prescription drug industry, which accounted for 12% of US health care spending ($234 billion) in 2008. Price competition between generic pharmaceutical companies should, in theory, reduce costs, but insufficient market entry by generic firms may keep drug prices high. Thus, I seek to unde...

The literature on organizational niche suggests that competition between firms that have overlapping niches tends to elevate exit risks. Thus, firms tend to enter markets that are relatively uncrowded in order to minimize direct competition with other firms. Although this research has focused on organizational “micro-niches,” it has not been applied to organizational populations occupying diffe...

Much is known about the drivers of firm-level technology standards adoption, as well as the consortia that are responsible for creating them. In this study, we explore some new but related issues: the strategic information updating decision-making process that firms use in determining their timing of entry into a standard-setting organization (SSO) that supports the formation and promulgation o...

Entering a new product market requires assembling bundle of resources. Because missing single resource can foil the entire entry effort, we argue that bottleneck resources—those most difficult to obtain or sell externally—anchor direction firm growth. We characterize resources as bottlenecks entry, because they are (on average) more challenging and than technological resources, articulate why i...

We compare the survival of new domestic and foreign owned firms. We analyze the determinants of the survival of new firms and investigate whether foreigness accounts for significant differences in the survival of new foreign and new domestic firms. We find survival to be determined by ownership advantages, size and growth strategies, the internal organization of firms, and by industry character...

market structure is one of the most important characteristics of every industry. although, there exist different indices such as concentration, economies of scale, entry of firms, product differentiation, etc. for the evaluation of market structure, but most of the studies in the subject have used only one of these indices (usually concentration). in this study, by application of fuzzy inferenc...

During the 1980s, changes in the US legal environment ushered in an era characterized by strong patent rights. This paper examines the effects of this " pro-patent " shift on firms in the semiconductor industry. By conducting interviews with industry representatives and analyzing the patenting behavior of 95 US semiconductor firms during 1979-1995, we find that the strengthening of US patent ri...

This paper considers on-demand services and its impact on market structure, firm profitability and consumer welfare. The unique properties of on-demand services are the conversion of fixed costs to variable costs, removal of capacity constraint and fast setup time (which enables quick entry by any firm at any time when there is opportunity), while privacy and security concerns and switching cos...