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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"First-mover Advantage"”.
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Advertising in Markets with Consumption Externalities
… is not possible the incumbent does not possess a first mover advantage and optimal entry accommodation involves strategic investment in advertising followed by aggressive price competition congruent with the non-strategic simultaneous advertising benchmark. The findings suggest that an incumbent’s …
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A Netflix experience : reimagining the direct-to-consumer platform
… intensify, Netflix cannot rely solely on its first-mover advantage to remain at the top and must continue to find ways to differentiate itself from competitors. While Netflix is known for having disrupted content delivery, there are still many innovations it can make to the content itself. By …
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Biomass energy : a real estate investment perspective
… barrier, hence providing investors the "first-mover" advantage in tapping into the biomass investment market.
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Essays in pharmaceutical economics
… plays in influencing firm behavior. In the first chapter I examine competition in the neglected disease submarket of the biopharmaceutical industry. Using a combination of novel panel data sources that cover both pharmaceutical firms innovation activities as well as the approved product …
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Using artificial intelligence to enhance personalization of customer relationship management in the contact center space : Afiniti's technology case study
… position in its newly open market through its first mover advantage business model, its aggressive intellectual property building and its sales network. Finally, it appears that its approach to personalization is fitting in numerous academic fields and very relevant to the specific …
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Economc Analysis of Privatization
… and the private. Public borrowers enjoy a "first mover" advantage to borrow money from banks. In this situation, the credit rationing is found escalating. But since the success of a public project (owned by a public borrower) can exert positive externality on the productivity of private …
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Achieving Late-Mover Advantage: The Effects of Enhancing and Distinctive Strategies
… market, research on how to achieve a late-mover advantage is limited and lags behind the theoretical work on first-mover advantage. The strategic choice a late mover can utilize to compete against the pioneer is largely underdeveloped. Further, extant studies provide contradictory arguments …
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From Analog to Digital: The Geopolitical and Socioeconomic Calculus of Central Bank Digital Currencies
… CBDCs, for example, offer a technological advantage over traditional banking through reserve currencies by disintermediating cross border payments thus reducing economic frictions in terms of payment and settlement time and cost while also providing peer-to-peer connectivity. Furthermore, a …
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Studies of Bounded Rationality and Overconfidence in Dynamic Games
… contexts relevant to marketing managers. In the first set of analyses, we derive analytic equations to calculate the relative expected payoffs associated with conditions of overestimation bias, underestimation bias, and no bias and discern trends as a function of environmental features including …
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A Shariah compliant private equity fund : compatibility in South Africa
… This gives South Africa a competitive edge and first mover advantage over other African countries in promoting and advancing the Islamic finance industry. The main goal of this mini thesis is the study of what constitutes an Islamic Shariah compliant Private Equity Fund (IPEF). At a secondary …
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Application of 3D printing in medical devices New Product Development
… (MD) franchise increased salable lifetime, first mover advantage, customer loyalty, and company reputation for innovation are just some of the reasons that accelerating the pace of development is a priority at J&J. Despite the incentives to speed up the development process, a typical MD …
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A Real Options Approach to Modeling Investments in Competitive, Dynamic Retail Markets
… This early entry gives the small retail a first-mover advantage and delays the big retailer s entry into the competitive market. In addition, we conduct sensitivity analysis to characterize how significantly the values of our model parameters impact the retailers investment decisions. We …
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Identification and realisation of the benefits of participating in an electronic marketplace : An interpretive evaluation approach
… a fear of lagging behind competitors or losing first mover advantage. In this climate of uncertainty organisations often bypass effective evaluation of the benefits that can be realised from participation in e-marketplaces, thereby exacerbating the process facing them and hampering effective …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Elections
… possible candidates. The presence of incumbency advantage may lead to a dysfunc- tional system with deleterious effects for welfare. Incumbent candidates may use officeholder benefits to improve their electoral prospects. For exam- ple, incumbents typically have access to free postage, printing …
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Dynamic Models of Innovation and Learning
… as it comes with the possibility of generating a first-mover advantage. However, early adoption comes at the price of greater uncertainty because the innovation’s true quality can be learned only by observing market performance. In particular, firms learn through a process of market …
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Sustainable and reliable design of large-scale complex logistics systems under competition and uncertainties
… its profound economic and societal impact. First, We develop game-theoretical models based on Continuum Approximation (CA) to study a reliable competitive location problem where facilities are simultaneously subject to (i) symmetric or leader-follower types of competitions, and (ii) …