Demand competition and investment heterogeneity in industries based on systemic technologies: evidence from the US long-distance telecommunications services industry, 1984–1996 |
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Authors: | Lalit Manral |
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Institution: | (1) College of Business Administration, University of Central Oklahoma, 100 North University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034, USA |
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Abstract: | Industries based on systemic technologies are often characterized by a dynamically evolving market structure. The market structure
that provides the context for firms’ investment choices itself evolves due to the feedback effect of firms’ investments. In
such cases, analyses of investment-performance relationship, purporting to explain sustainable competitive advantages, should
ideally account for the endogeneity of the determinants of market structure—technology, demand, and policy—and firms’ investment
choices. This paper focuses on the endogeneity of the demand-side determinants of market structure and firms’ demand-side
investments under the assumed conditions of constant technology and policy environment. In doing so it contradicts the extant
depiction of the evolution of industrial market structure in the above context as primarily caused by the evolution of underlying
technological system in response to firms’ endogenous technological investments that generate sustainable competitive advantage
for the dominant firms. A dynamic evolutionary model of demand competition captures the competition in the downstream market
for basic industry product and its complements in an industry based on systemic technology during its post-interoperability
stage. A natural experiment drawn from the US Long-distance telecommunications services industry during 1984–1996 allows testing
the hypotheses drawn from the above model in a panel data setting. |
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