Creating growth in new markets: A simultaneous model of firm entry and price

被引:14
作者
Bayus, Barry L. [1 ]
Kang, Wooseong
Agarwal, Rajshree
机构
[1] Univ N Carolina, Kenan Flagler Business Sch, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
[2] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
关键词
EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE; SALES TAKEOFF; PRODUCT; INNOVATION; EVOLUTION; SURVIVAL; PATENTS;
D O I
10.1111/j.1540-5885.2007.00239.x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Sales in a new market generally follow a hockey-stick pattern: After commercialization, sales are very low for some time before there is a dramatic takeoff in growth. Reported sales takeoffs across products vary widely from a few years to several decades. Prior research identifies new firm entry or price declines as key factors that relate to the timing of a sales takeoff in new markets. However, this literature considers these variables to be exogenous and only finds unilateral effects. In the present article, new firm entry and price declines are modeled as being endogenous. Thus, the simultaneous relationship between price declines and firm entry in the introductory period of new markets when industry sales are negligible is studied. Using a sample of new markets formed in the United States during the last 135 years, strong support for a simultaneous model of price and firm entry is found: Price decreases relate to the competitive pressures associated with firm entry, and, in turn, firm entry is lower in new markets with rapidly falling prices. Furthermore, a key driver of firm entry during the early years of a new market involves the level of patent activity, and a key driver of price decreases is the presence of large firms. In contrast to the recommendations from other research, these results indicate that rapid price declines may further delay sales takeoff in industries by dampening new firm entry. Instead, rapid sales takeoffs in new markets come from encouraging greater innovative activity and the entry of large firms.
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页码:139 / 155
页数:17
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