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40. Retail Format as a Barrier to Entry

Author

Avi Goldfarb, Samila Sampsa, and Brian S. Silverman

Subjects
Scholarship, Exploit, business.industry, The Internet, Product (category theory), Marketing, Market concentration, Monopoly, Empirical evidence, business, Barriers to entry
Abstract

“Barriers to entry” form a key construct in strategy scholarship and pedagogy. However, limited empirical evidence exists for many putative barriers. For example, although considerable evidence suggests that managers perceive the existence of significant distribution-related barriers to entry, there is virtually no empirical evidence for distribution’s actual role as an entry barrier. We exploit a field experiment conducted by Systembolaget, the Swedish government alcohol retail monopoly, and examine the role of changes in distribution through a randomized change from counter-service to self-service stores. We find that self-service stores sell much higher product variety and new entrants do better in self-service stores. The increase in variety is comparable to the change from catalog sales to internet.

Published
2009

50. Institutional Ownership and the Nature of Corporate Innovation.

Author

Samila, Sampsa, Simeth, Markus, and Wehrheim, David

Abstract

This paper analyzes whether institutional ownership affects the nature of corporate innova-tion. We consider the heterogeneity of firm innovation by differentiating upstream research from downstream development using novel indicators for scientific publications and patents. Our analysis shows that institutional owners have a negative impact on upstream research, whereas there is no effect on downstream development. Consistent with a short-term ori-entation of institutional owners, we further show that scientific research is associated with lower short-term operating performance but higher long-term firm value. These findings support the view that capital markets in general, and institutional owners in particular, can induce myopic firm behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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