First-mover (dis)advantages: Retrospective and link with the resource-based view

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1111-1125

  Lieberman, Marvin B ^a   Montgomery, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

First mover advantage; Follower advantage; Market entry; Pioneer advantage; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000287182     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(1998120)19:12<1111::AID-SMJ21>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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