We analyze a simple game of technology adoption with network effects and multiple new technologies. Potential adopters can adopt early, late, or not at all. We show that one of the reasons for the failure of new technologies can be the presence of multiple incompatible variants of that...

This paper considers the relative productivity growth performance of a balanced sample of 80 large UK firms over 9 years (1986-95), using two different benchmarks from which to compute productivity growth differences. We find that there is almost no persistence in superior productivity growth...

In this paper we evaluate the heterogeneous effects of online copyright enforcement. We ask whether the unexpected shutdown of the popular file hosting platform Megaupload had a differential effect on box office revenues of wide-release vs. niche movies. Identification comes from a comparison of...

We offer a new perspective on competitive dynamics research by analyzing firms' reactions to groups of rivals, both at the industry and the strategic group level. We propose that firms observe a buildup of rival actions and perceive increasing ‘competitive pressure' to respond, which results...

While organizational platforms are becoming more prevalent for the integration and exchange of organizational knowledge, employee engagement remains a barrier for the success of these platforms. Extending socio-technical systems (STS) research, we focus on individual knowledge seeking in an...

Today, many platforms rely on contributions by users to create value. While they play an increasing role in today's digital economy, little is known about how dominant user-driven platforms emerge and what determines the production of content here. We aim to extend our understanding of this...