Today's business environment is filled with fierce competition, rapid technological changes
and market uncertainty. For survival, organizations have no option but to embrace …

Support to enhance early growth of academic spin-off firms is at the core of many economic
policies. Efficiency of this support has been recently questioned due to slow growth of spin …

We raise four sets of issues relating to the definition and measurement of first mover
advantage. We begin by posing questions about the basic definition of FMA and whether …

The payment market has been stable for a number of decades with well-defined roles
(acquirers and issuers), profitable business models (the card schemes) and a dominant …

The role of market orientation as an antecedent of new product performance has been
extensively documented in the literature. What is less clear, however, is how firms should …

This paper investigates how video game publishers' choice of game release date is affected
by the expected level of competition within the game's product niche. We identify game …

Despite the high practical relevance, prior research does not provide a clear picture whether
the effectiveness of new product preannouncements is contingent upon order of entry and …

Previous studies examining the effects of pioneer market entrance effects have shown that
favorable results come from being a first entrant: others find mixed evidence and some even …

We extend the well-known spatial competition model (d'Aspremont, Gabszewicz & Thisse,
1979) to a continuous time model in which two firms compete in each instance. Our focus is …

To catch up with the forerunners, emerging countries such as China recently concentrate on
the development of emerging green technologies. Choosing the appropriate entry timing …