Lock-in and the costs of switching mainframe computer vendors in the US federal government in the 1970s

Greenstein, Shane

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“…, Saloner and Steinmueller (1996), and Bresnahan and Saloner (1997) report on the importance of organizational costs of switching to C/S. Brynjolfsson and Hitt (1995), Greenstein (1995), and Ito (1996) discuss coinvention with regard to information technology investments in general.…”

Section: Micro Data On Large-systems Users and Their Choices In The 1mentioning

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Technical Progress and Co-Invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers

Bresnahan¹,

Greenstein²

1996

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics

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WHY DO SOME technologies offer opportunities for widespread economic change? Purely technical progress is rarely sufficient to make an invention economically important. Users, through their own experimentation and discovery, make technology more valuable. We call this activity co-invention to distinguish it from original invention. Coinvention is potentially complex and uncertain, and it can be a bottleneck in technical progress. Yet the complementarity between inventions by users and by technologists can benefit a wide range of economic activities. Understanding co-invention is a key to understanding the economic payoff to invention in new information technologies today. '

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Section: Micro Data On Large-systems Users and Their Choices In The 1mentioning

confidence: 99%

Technical Progress and Co-Invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers

Bresnahan¹,

Greenstein²

1996

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics

209

174

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“…Now consider a more general setting in which product market frictions impede buyers from freely adjusting their mix of suppliers. These impediments might include search costs (Sorensen, 2000), slow diffusion of information about new suppliers (Foster, Haltiwanger, & Syverson, 2015;Perla, 2016), relationship-specific investments between buyers and suppliers (Tirole, 1988;Klemperer, 1995), investments in systems of compatible components (Greenstein, 1995), and others. 10 We capture these frictions by assuming the buyer faces a constraint on the rate at which it can alter its mix of suppliers,…”

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Quality-Adjusted Price Measurement: A New Approach with Evidence from Semiconductors

Byrne

Kovak

Michaels

2017

The Review of Economics and Statistics

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Many markets exhibit price dispersion across suppliers of observationally identical goods. Statistical agencies typically assume this dispersion reflects unobserved quality, so standard price indexes do not incorporate price declines when buyers substitute toward lower-price suppliers. We show that long-run price differences across suppliers can be used to infer unobserved quality differences and propose an index that accommodates quality-adjusted price dispersion. Using transaction-level data on contract semiconductor manufacturing, we document substantial quality-adjusted price dispersion and confirm that a standard index is biased above our proposed index.

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“…high density of (global) networks can be a threat in some cases when it locks firms into ties with undesirable resources -"lock-in" phenomenon (greenstein, 1995;gulati, nohria and Zaheer, 2000;Tinoco and Macedo-Soares, 2008 (Johanson and vahle, 1977(Johanson and vahle, , 2003(Johanson and vahle, , 2009garcia-canal et al, 2002). …”

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Ensuring dynamic strategic fit of firms that compete globally in alliances and networks: proposing the Global SNA - Strategic Network Analysis - framework

Macedo-Soares

2011

Rev. Adm. Pública

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Sumário: I. Introdução; 2. Métodos de pesquisa; 3. Resultados da revisão da literatura; 4. Posicionamento teórico; 5. Introduzindo o Arcabouço SNA Global; 6. Discussão e considerações finais.Key wordS: global strategy; transnational strategy; global strategic alliances; global strategic networks of linkages; dynamic strategic fit; relational strategic analysis; global relational network perspective; international perspective. PalavraS-chave: estratégia global; estratégia transnacional; alianças estratégicas globais; redes de ligações estratégicas globais; adequação estratégica dinâmica; análise estratégica relacional; perspectiva global relacional de rede; perspectiva internacional.In order to sustain their competitive advantage in the current increasingly globalized and turbulent context, more and more firms are competing globally in alliances and networks that oblige them to adopt new managerial paradigms and tools. However, their strategic analyses rarely take into account the strategic implications of these alliances and networks, considering their global relational characteristics, admittedly because of a lack of adequate tools to do so. This paper contributes to research that T. diana L. van aduard de Macedo-SoareS seeks to fill this gap by proposing the Global Strategic Network Analysis -SNA -framework. Its purpose is to help firms that compete globally in alliances and networks to carry out their strategic assessments and decision-making with a view to ensuring dynamic strategic fit from both a global and relational perspective.Assegurando adequação estratégica de empresas que competem globalmente em alianças e redes: propondo o Arcabouço Global SNA (Strategic Network Analysis) Com vistas a sustentar sua vantagem competitiva no contexto de globalização e mudanças crescentes, mais e mais empresas estão competindo globalmente por meio de alianças e redes que as obrigam de adotar novos paradigmas e ferramentas gerenciais. No entanto, suas análises estratégicas raramente levam em conta as implicações estratégicas dessas alianças e redes, considerando suas características globais e relacionais, aparentemente, por falta de ferramentas analíticas adequadas. Este artigo contribui para as pesquisas que buscam preencher esta lacuna, ao propor o "Global Strategic Network Analysis -SNA -framework". O objetivo deste é de auxiliar empresas que competem globalmente em alianças e redes na condução das suas avaliações estratégicas e tomadas de decisão com vistas a assegurar uma adequação estratégica dinâmica pela perspectiva ao mesmo tempo global e relacional.

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Lock-in and the costs of switching mainframe computer vendors in the US federal government in the 1970s

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Technical Progress and Co-Invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers

Technical Progress and Co-Invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers

Quality-Adjusted Price Measurement: A New Approach with Evidence from Semiconductors

Ensuring dynamic strategic fit of firms that compete globally in alliances and networks: proposing the Global SNA - Strategic Network Analysis - framework

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