Entry Barriers: A Dull-, One-, or Two-Edged Sword for Incumbents? Unraveling the Paradox from a Contingency Perspective

• Main Authors: HAN, Jin K., KIM, Namwoon, KIM, Hong-Bumm
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• 主題: entry barriers; contingency effects; firm performance; incumbent advantage; switching costs; Business; Marketing
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2143; https://www.jstor.org/stable/3203402

The long-held precept of equating entry barriers with sustainable incumbent advantage increasingly is met with skepticism as incidents of innovative late entrants leapfrogging over market incumbents become more pervasive across industries. Ostensibly, the reassessment of the traditional assumptions...