Search Results - subject_exact:"Imitation strategy"

Eppinger, Peter S.; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Naghavi, Alireza; … - 2026

We examine how firms strategically slice up global production processes to protect proprietary know-how. By sourcing fewer inputs from each supplier, firms avoid the concentration of information in the hands of individual suppliers and thereby reduce the risk of imitation. Using rich micro data...

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Slice to protect

Eppinger, Peter S.; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Naghavi, Alireza; … - 2026

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Revisiting speed of imitation from a competitive dynamics perspective

Balzano, Marco; Giachetti, Claudio - 2026

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How learning and legitimacy goals influence inter-firm imitation in R&D investment decisions

Mazzelli, Ambra; Foss, Nicolai J. - 2025

Much research has examined the drivers of firms' R&D investments. However, many questions remain with respect to the role of R&D as a learning target and as a means of achieving legitimacy, particularly in the context of imitative R&D strategy. We develop a theory that integrates different...

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Insider imitation with product differentiation

D'Andria, Diego - 2025

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Patent licensing and litigation

Mallios, Aineas Kostas - 2025

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Digital transformation and competitive advantage in manufacturing : the role of business model innovation

Zheng, Shanqiang; Zhou, Yaodong - 2025

In the era of the digital economy, how digital transformation (DT) contributes to economic development has become a topic of growing interest. This study focuses on business model innovation (BMI) driven by DT in the manufacturing sector. From this perspective, we aim to explore how DT can...

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Imitation trap and catch-up : a benchmark model based on horizontal innovation theory

Wei, Feng; Jiao, Yang - 2025

The paper introduces the concept of the "imitation trap" to describe a state where economies remain reliant on technological imitation and fail to transition to growth driven by independent innovation. It aims to develop an endogenous economic growth model applicable to both independent research...

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The role of social media influencers in influencing consumers' imitation intentions

Chaichana Ampornklinkaew - 2025

Given the proliferation of social media influencer marketing, companies are increasingly collaborating with social media influencers (SMIs) to shape consumer decision-making. This study examines how food-related content created by SMIs can influence consumers' imitation intentions. This paper...

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An adoption model of cryptocurrencies

Rzayev, Khaladdin; Sakkas, Athanasios; Urquhart, Andrew - 2025

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The emergence of chaos in population game dynamics induced by comparisons

Bielawski, Jakub; Cholewa, Łukasz; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2025

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Industry and regional peer effects on company innovation

Yang, Xingquan; Li, Feng; Liu, Ying - 2024

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Imitation dynamics in oligopoly games with heterogeneous players

Lindeman, Daan; Ochea, Marius I. - 2024

We investigate the role and performance of imitative behavior in a class of quantity-setting, Cournot games. Within a framework of evolutionary competition between rational, myopic best-response and imitation heuristics with differential heuristics' costs, we found that the equilibrium stability...

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Learning to play Sokoban from videos

Fricker, Nicolai Benjamin; Krüger, Nicolai; Schubart, … - 2024

In order to learn a task through behavior cloning, a dataset consisting of state-action pairs is needed. However, this kind of data is often not available in sufficient quantity or quality. Consequently, several publications have addressed the issue of extracting actions from a sequence of...

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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2024

The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation...

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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2023

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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2023

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R&D location in dynamic industry environments

Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Harting, Philipp - 2024

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Licensing and secrecy under imperfect intellectual property protection

Mallios, Aineas Kostas - 2024

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Innovative search and imitation heuristics : an agent-based simulation study

Guida, Vittorio; Mittone, Luigi; Morreale, Azzurra - 2024

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The secret of imitating wrongdoing : accidental or deliberate

Chen, Fengwen; Wang, Bing; Wang, Wei; Hu, Chen - 2024

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Responsible i(m)ovation in Asia Pacific regions

Scuotto, Veronica; Garcia-Perez, Alexeis; Kalisz, David E. - 2024

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Imitation versus differentiation : balance between product similarities and differences in a Hotelling model

Kimura, Koichiro - 2024

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The evolution of China's special economic zones : from technology imitation to innovation leadership

Liu, Sixuan; Zedtwitz, Maximilian von - 2026

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The evolution of China's special economic zones : from technology imitation to innovation leadership

Liu, Sixuan; Zedtwitz, Maximilian von - 2026

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Irresponsible contagions : propagating harmful behavior through imitation

Bryant, Andrew; Griffin, Jennifer J.; Perry, Vanessa G. - 2023

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Whom should a leader imitate? : using rivalry-based imitation to manage strategic risk in changing environments

Sharapov, Dmitry; Ross, Jan-Michael - 2023

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Innovation or imitation? : the impacts of financial factors on green and general research and development

Wu, Ruohan - 2023

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Innovation or Imitation? The Impacts of Financial Factors on Green and General Research and Development

Wu, Ruohan - 2023

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Innovation Against Imitation : How to Compete with Copycats in Crowdfunding?

Chen, Zepeng; Guo, Xiaomeng; Xiao, Guang; Xu, Fasheng - 2023

Information disclosure in crowdfunding is a double-edged sword: On the one hand, releasing more information can induce more contributors to pledge; on the other hand, more public information lowers the barrier to entry and attracts opportunistic copycats. This paper investigates how the startup...

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Innovation, Imitation, and Political Cleavages in International Trade and Patent Protection

Park, Sojun - 2023

The distributional consequences of intra-industry trade are well documented in the literature, yet exporting firms shape trade policy in their favor. How? I argue that exporters expect higher returns from lobbying when they face more intense import competition. I introduce a model of...

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The Laws of Imitation and Invention : Gabriel Tarde and the Evolutionary Economics of Innovation

Djellal, Faridah; Gallouj, Faiz - 2023

Gabriel Tarde was a French sociologist and criminologist whose work is rediscovered from time to time. Economists of innovation have paid insufficient attention to an author who devoted a large part of his work to the laws of imitation and invention. The purpose of this paper is threefold. The...

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Platform acquisitions, product imitation and openness

Sanchez-Cartas, J. Manuel - 2023

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Contest copycats : adversarial duplication of effort in contests

Send, Jonas - 2023

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Imitative Tendencies of Same-Benchmark Mutual Funds

Wong, Dan Xia - 2023

Active share, as proposed by Cremers and Petajisto (2009) and Cremers (2017), represent the proportion of portfolio holdings that differs from the benchmark index holdings. I show that holdings represented by the active share could in fact be very similar with holdings of other same-benchmark...

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Mind the knowledge gap! : the origins of declining business dynamism in a macro agent-based model

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, Enrico - 2023

In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...

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Mind the knowledge gap! : the origins of declining business dynamism in a macro agent-based model

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, Enrico - 2023

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Business model imitation: definition and typology

Bourkha, Bilal - 2023

The main idea of the article says that the concept BM imitation (BMIm) has not been developed adequately in the strategic management field, even though it has been greatly used recently by researchers. Therefore, the aim of our research is to propose a definition of BMIm and to highlight the...

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Spatial and relational peer effects on environmental behavioral imitation

Zhang, Jianhua; Liu, Xiaolong; Ballas, Dimitris - 2023

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Vicarious Experimentation Through Imitation : Evidence From Video Game Sequel Releases

Yi, Sangyoon; Posen, Hart E.; Ganco, Martin - 2023

Research in the strategy literature that highlights the role of imitation has tended to focus primarily on its detrimental effects on the performance of imitated firms. Developing the notion of vicarious experimentation, we examine how innovators can learn from being imitated. Specifically, we...

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Does the product characteristic distance get closer or not? : differentiation and imitation in a hotelling model

Kimura, Koichiro - 2023

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Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? : understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution

Yilmaz, Erdem Dogukan; Naumovska, Ivana; Miric, Milan - 2023

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Is bottom-of-the-pyramid orientation a new reason for product imitation in emerging markets?

Xu, Lianyong; Wei, Zelong; Xie, Paike; Ngai, Eric W. T.; … - 2025

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Black-Scholes meet imitation learning : evidence from deep hedging in China

Jiang, Fuwei; Kang, Jie; Tian, Ruzheng; Xu, Qingdong - 2025

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Validation of the emo-decision-making contagion measurement scale

Chaabi, Antar - 2025

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Einfühlung : overview of theory components and test in advertising settings

Brauckmann, Nadine; Gierl, Heribert - 2025

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Speed advantages or profiting from imitation? : the imitation dilemma in the follower strategy

Wei, Zelong; Zhang, Dejian - 2025

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Imitation : mitigating AI backfire

Zhang, Fan; Pan, Jieyi - 2025

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Use design choices to prevent imitation

MacAulay, Samuel; Sharapov, Dmitry - 2025

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From imitation to innovation : where is all that Chinese R&D going?

König, Michael D.; Storesletten, Kjetil; Song, Zheng … - 2022

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From imitation to innovation : where is all that Chinese R&D going?

König, Michael D.; Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, … - 2020

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From imitation to innovation : where is all that Chinese R&D going?

König, Michael D.; Storesletten, Kjetil; Song, Zheng … - 2020

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From imitation to innovation : where is all that Chinese R&D going?

König, Michael D.; Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, … - 2020

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where is All that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael D.; Song, Zheng (Michael); … - 2022

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael D. - 2020

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Policy Competition, Imitation and Coordination Under Uncertainty

Hefeker, Carsten - 2022

The paper analyzes under what circumstances policymakers experiment with policies with uncertain outcomes, when they prefer to imitate policies initiated in other countries, and when they prefer to coordinate policies internationally. Policymakers have private costs of active policies and...

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Coordination and Imitation under Unawareness

Tada, Yoshihiko - 2022

This study focuses on discovered versions of coordination games with unawareness, and proposes a novel solution concept under unawareness named a successful-coordination equilibrium. In games with unawareness, coordination might fail because the models assume that agents are unaware of their...

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The Imitation Game : How Encouraging Renegotiation Makes Good Borrowers Bad

Flynn, Sean; Ghent, Andra C.; Tchistyi, Alexei - 2022

We show that commercial mortgage borrowers behave opportunistically in order to obtain principal reductions. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a model in which lenders cannot perfectly observe borrowers' use values and renegotiation is costly. We then study the effects of a 2009 IRS...

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Social learning between groups : imitation and the role of experience

Schlag, Karl H. - 2022

Social learning often occurs between groups with different levels of experience. Yet little is known about the ideal behavioral rules in such contexts. Existing insights only apply when individuals learn from each other in the same group. In this paper, we close this gap and consider two groups,...

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Extra-industry imitation of digital platform business models

Hauke-Lopes, Aleksandra; Wieczerzycki, Marcin; … - 2022

Objective: The objective of the article is to identify challenges and success factors related to the imitation of the digital platform business model in other industries. Research Design & Methods: We based our research on a single case study of an extra-industry imitation performed by a digital...

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Imitation and Minimax Regret

Schlag, Karl H. - 2022

Myopic individuals belonging to an infinite population repeatedly and independently have to choose one of two actions. Between choices each individual is informed about the success of one random other individual. We search among rules with a single round of memory for a rule that attains minimax...

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