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Schumpeterian Competition Within Computing Markets and Organizational Diseconomies of Scope

Timothy F. Bresnahan

出版	200?
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-7bbtwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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We address a longstanding question about the causes behind creative destruction. Incumbent dominant firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in a new technological era. We examine two of the most important historical episodes in computing markets, respectively, the introduction of the PC and the browser. We examine the internal organization of two contemporaneously leading computing firms, IBM and Microsoft. We show that organizational diseconomies of scope between new and old businesses explain the pattern of unsuccessful dominant firms in the two historical cases. Each firm, having been an extremely successful marketer of an old technology, came to have grave difficulties running an organization which could effectively market in both the old and the new technologies. Our analysis locates the problem that each had firmly in the marketing or commercialization of new technologies. It was in the area of the greatest strength of these firms, not in any area of weakness, that the organizational diseconomies of scope arose.