Do switching costs mediate the relationship between entry timing and performance?

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1251-1269

  Gómez, Jaime ^a,b   Maícas, Juan Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

entry timing; first mover advantages; mobile communications industry; performance; switching costs

Indexed keywords

ENTRY TIMING; FIRST-MOVER ADVANTAGES; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; SWITCHING COSTS;

COMPETITION; COSTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

SWITCHING;

EID: 80053574429     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.931     Document Type: Article

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