According to Gibrat's Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, more recent research generally rejects it. This paper reconciles these two streams of...

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Die zunehmend digitale Wettbewerbslandschaft ist gekennzeichnet durch steigende Komplexität, kontinuierlichem Wandel, verschwimmende Branchengrenzen, erhöhter Wettbewerbsintensität sowie die daraus resultierenden unsicheren Entwicklungsprognosen. Besonders die durch technologische...

The literature establishes a strong link between radical innovation, first-mover advantage and market dominance. However, there are numerous examples where, despite being the first-mover and radically innovating, companies have failed to achieve a significant market share. In fact, incremental...

Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...

Die zunehmend digitale Wettbewerbslandschaft ist gekennzeichnet durch steigende Komplexität, kontinuierlichem Wandel, verschwimmende Branchengrenzen, erhöhter Wettbewerbsintensität sowie die daraus resultierenden unsicheren Entwicklungsprognosen. Besonders die durch technologische...

This paper describes the standardisation process and introduction timeline of high definition television. The development of the standard is a process that goes back over forty years, but HDTV is only today slowly finding its place in the home entertainment market. This paper explores why the...

In this article, we analyze the winds of change currently blowing on the booming multi-billion dollar global consumer electronics industry. The revolutionary impact of blockchain technology on supply chain management is discussed as well as potential use cases for the consumer electronics...

The consumer electronics industry is a $ 240 billion global industry with a small number of highly competitive global players. We describe many of the risks associated with any global supply chain in this industry. As illustration, we also list steps that Samsung Electronics and its subsidiary,...

We analyze the economic effects of a developer's connectedness in the electronic game industry. Knowledge spillovers between developers are likely to be of special relevance in this knowledge-intensive and regionally concentrated industry. We calculate social network measures for a developer's...

Contents -- Introduction -- 1. How to Combine Theory and Business Practice? -- 1.1 About Theory -- 1.2 Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Research Methods -- 1.3 Cases Studies: Why, How, and What? -- 1.4 The Case Study of Panasonic: Do You Believe in its Future Business? -- 1.4.1 Company...

This textbook discusses the most important theories of internationalization, including Product Life-Cycle, Internalization, Location, Eclectic Paradigm, Uppsala, Network, and International New Venture concepts. These models are grounded to a considerable extent in the Transaction Cost Theory and...

The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in network industries to rebuild their installed base to maintain an advantage over potential entrants. We study if backward compatibility can help moderate this process of rebuilding an installed base. Using a structural model of...

We analyze the economic effects of a developer's connectedness in the electronic game industry. Knowledge spillovers between developers should be of special relevance in this knowledge-based industry. We calculate measures for a developer's connectedness to other developers at multiple points in...

Models of cooperative advertising analyzed until recently have mainly revolved around two cases: (1) Strong manufacturer, weak retailer; (2) strong manufacturer, equally strong retailer. These are not generalizable to market dynamics in all countries and all industries. Despite being...

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This paper aims to contribute to the extensive study of the World Bank Commission on Growth and Development by a case study of the Turkish automotive and the consumer electronics industries. Despite a macroeconomic environment that inhibits investment and growth, both industries have achieved...

This paper aims to contribute to the extensive study of the World Bank Commission on Growth and Development by a case study of the Turkish automotive and the consumer electronics industries. Despite a macroeconomic environment that inhibits investment and growth, both industries have achieved...

This paper aims to contribute to the extensive study of the World Bank Commission on Growth and Development by a case study of the Turkish automotive and the consumer electronics industries. Despite a macroeconomic environment that inhibits investment and growth, both industries have achieved...

This paper aims to contribute to the extensive study of the World Bank Commission on Growth and Development by a case study of the Turkish automotive and the consumer electronics industries. Despite a macroeconomic environment that inhibits investment and growth, both industries have achieved...

According to Gibrat’s Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, more recent research generally rejects it. This paper reconciles these two streams of...

Bullying is one of the most impactful deviant actions that affect workers’ personal health and work experience. Bullying is a quite distinctive deviant behavior as targets are subjected to transgressions that could last for months or longer. Even though a number of actions can be taken to...