First-Mover Advantages.

Lieberman, M. B., & Montgomery, D. B. (1988). First-Mover Advantages. Strategic Management Journal, 9, 41-58.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1988

DOI

10.1002/smj.4250090706

Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250090706

Cited from

economics_finance, military_strategic_studies

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• First Mover Advantage
  • Early arrival converts into durable position through specific channels: resource preemption (a slot, frequency, or seam can be taken only once), buyer switching costs, network and platform effects (later users prefer larger networks the early mover seeded), reputational or category-defining position (the early mover is the category in the public mind), and learning-curve cost asymmetry (the early mover descends the experience curve sooner).

    This sourceFoundational taxonomy of first-mover-advantage mechanisms (technological leadership / learning curve, preemption of assets, switching costs) and the conditions, including second-mover free-riding, that invert them.

• Positional Advantage
  • The latency invariant holds — a commanding market position confers nothing until a firm occupies and exploits it, which is why first-movers race to seize structural positions before rivals recognize their value, and why a moat no firm has yet built is an opportunity rather than a possession.

    This sourceAnalyzes preemption of scarce assets and the race to seize structural market positions before rivals recognize their value.

Domain-specific

• Law of the handicap of a head start
  • … with extensive older industrial equipment may modernize more slowly than a late-industrializing country able to install a newer generation directly. to Historical comparison tests alternative causes, dates both the lead and reversal and treats the law as a contingent hypothesis rather than a universal sequence..

Mechanisms

• Follower Wargame
  • It is precisely where the folklore of first-mover advantage gets checked

    This sourceSurveys empirical evidence for both first-mover advantages and offsetting advantages available to later entrants.

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