Competitive Strategy

SMJ: New Antitrust Study Shows Reining in Big Tech Doesn’t Spur Rival Profits

SMJ authors address the complexity of competition and innovation in platform ecosystems By J Katherine Bahr / Vanderbilt University In January, the Justice Department sued Google, claiming the tech company abused…

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Strategic Management of Fault Lines, Contradictions, and Divergences

SMJ Video Abstract | Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose-driven mechanism in organizations’ reference selection

Focus on Customers, not Competitors, when Responding to First-Movers

When a competitor adopts a new innovation, others in the market have two ways to respond: They can also adopt the technology to directly compete (imitation) or they can choose…

New Antitrust Study Shows Reining in Big Tech Doesn’t Spur Rival Profits

This paper was nominated for a Concurrences Antitrust Writing Award. In January, the Justice Department sued Google, claiming the tech company abused a monopoly in online advertising by seizing control of…

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How to nurture and develop your ecosystem: Insights for ecosystem architects

What insights does strategy research offer to practitioners interested in nurturing the creation and ongoing development of a range of different types of ecosystems? In our introduction to an SMS…

Don’t Trap Your Customers

by Niloofar Abolfathi Industry changes that lower customer frictions can be surprisingly beneficial for companies. Building on the global telecommunications industry, we document how a reduction in customer switching costs…

Toward a dynamic notion of value creation and appropriation in firms

Most managers and the business press regard “value creation” as the increase in shareholder wealth represented by a rise in corporate profit or stock price. A broader conception of value…

When your problem becomes my problem

What happens to my operations when a competitor’s operations are disrupted? While research has examined how a disrupted firm can recover, little attention has been paid to competitors, except their…

Value creation in innovation ecosystems

Why do some new technologies emerge and quickly supplant incumbent technologies while others take years or decades to take off? We explore this question by presenting a framework that considers…

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