Missing the Starting Gun: De-Alio Entry Order in New Markets, Inertia and Real Option Capabilities Articles uri icon

authors

  • GIARRATANA, MARCO

publication date

  • July 2008

start page

  • 115

end page

  • 124

issue

  • 2

volume

  • 5

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1740-4754

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1740-4762

abstract

  • This article analyses entry order decisions of incumbent firms diversifying from other industries (de alio entrants) in new markets. We study this issue in the Security Software Industry, a high turbulent industry in which de alio firms were first technological movers but start-ups dominate the downstream product market. With a generalized Tobit estimation of observed entry order decisions, we find that pre-entry firm capabilities that should represent strategic options do not significantly explain firm entry order. The article argues that inertial decisions more than rational assessments drive de alio entry order in Security Software.