How a Convergence Product Affects Related Markets: The Case of the Mobile Phone

Lee, Misuk; Lee, Jongsu; Cho, Youngsang

doi:10.4218/etrij.09.0108.0574

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“…Other studies have examined, in a broad sense, the impact of the sectoral convergence process on technology and business strategies and on the competencies needed to face the changes imposed by this process (Chakravarthy, 1994;Kaluza, Blecker, & Bischof, 1999;Lei, 2000;Bores, Saurina, & Torres, 2003;Lee, Lee, & Cho, 2009;Lee, Olson, & Trimi, 2010;Bröring, 2010;Aaldering, Leker, & Song, 2019).…”

Section: Literature Review and Aims Of The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Life Cycle of Converging Industries: The Evolution of the Tablet Sector and Its Impact on Competitive Dynamics

Calvosa¹

2021

IJBM

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Background of the study. In recent years a series of academic research projects in the economic managerial field have investigated the relationship between innovation and industrial evolution, providing new interpretive keys to improve the understanding of one of the most important events in the industries’ transformation in the current economy, that of digital convergence. Purpose of the paper and methodology. This research work provides an original contribution to the question of how market convergence affects industry evolution. The paper analyzes the convergence process that has influenced the evolution of the tablet sector and the dynamics of entry, exit, innovation and competition over the industry life cycle. From a methodological point of view, a historical-longitudinal study was carried out, which was aimed at examining – supported by a qualitative/quantitative analysis – the sequence of events that, over 30 years, influenced the development of the tablet industry. Findings and implications. From the analysis some interesting findings emerged. Firstly, it was found that the life cycle curve of the converging tablet industry defined on the basis of sales data followed the ‘S-shaped pattern’ empirically detected by product and industry life cycle studies. Secondly, we have verified that the evolution of firm population and the level of product innovation in the tablet industry are consistent with two temporal patterns that characterize the evolutionary model, identified by evolutionary economics and technology management studies. It has also been found that the sectoral convergence process has affected the dynamics of competition in the tablet industry. It emerged, in fact, that the leading companies in introductory stages of the development of the tablet market – which came from the personal computer industry – quickly lost their market position in favor to newcomer firms that came from different converging sectors. The analysis has also made it possible to highlight that tablet market leaders tend to compete with each other in multiple sectors within the scope of a broader convergent mobile digital device market. Therefore, a ‘hybrid competition’ seems to have been affirmed between technological devices – smartphones, notebooks, tablets, smartwatches, e-readers – different in shape, but united by satisfying, in different ways, a need for simplified access on the move to a series of advanced digital functions and services.

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Section: Literature Review and Aims Of The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Life Cycle of Converging Industries: The Evolution of the Tablet Sector and Its Impact on Competitive Dynamics

Calvosa¹

2021

IJBM

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“…Most of them have primarily gone deeply into the analysis of drivers that have brought about this process and the examination of different types of convergence (Katz, 1996;Yoffie, 1997;Greenstein & Khanna, 1997;Collis, Bane, & Bradley, 1997;Pennings & Puranam, 2001;Wirtz, 2001;Stieglitz, 2003;Lind, 2005). More have focused their attention on studying the impact of the sectoral convergence process on the business strategies and skills needed to face the changes imposed by this process (Gambardella & Torrisi, 1998;Kaluza, Blecker, & Bischof, 1999;Lei, 2000;Bores, Saurina, & Torres, 2003;Lee, Lee, & Cho, 2009;Lee, Olson, & Trimi, 2010). Still, others have examined the international impact of convergence on regulatory policy, especially in the telecommunications industry (On & Aoki, 1998;Clements, 1998;Bijl & Peitz, 2008).…”

Section: Industry Convergence and Market Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entry, Exit and Innovation over the Industry Life Cycle in Converging Sectors: An Analysis of the Smartphone Industry

Calvosa¹

2020

IJBM

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This paper examines the digital convergence process that led to the development of the smartphone sector and the dynamics of entry, exit and innovation over the industry life cycle. We have verified, by a historical-longitudinal study, if several empirical regularities that characterize the evolution of firms and industries over time have distinguished also an industry born from a sectoral convergence process. From the analysis it emerged that the evolution of market sales and of product innovation in the smartphone industry, as well as firms entry and exit dynamics, are consistent with the evolutionary model identified by technology management and industry life cycle studies. It has also been found that the convergence process has favored the entry and the survival of new entrants, compared to the incumbent firms, coming from the native converging sectors – that of Personal digital assistants and of Mobile (feature) phones – from which the smartphone industry originated.

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“…In this process, bibliometric analysis, such as co-word, co-citation, co-authorship, and journal subject category co-classification analysis, has been widely conducted using scientific article data (Leydesdorff, 2007;Porter & Rafols, 2009;Porter, Cohen, Roessner, & Perreault, 2007;Schummer, 2004;Sun, Ding, & Lin, 2016;Zhang, Zhang, Zhu, & Lu, 2017;Zitt, Ramanana-Rahary, & Bassecoulard, 2005). Research on market-level convergence has analyzed product specifications using press release data (Lee, Lee, & Cho, 2009;Han, Chung, & Sohn, 2009). In this research, we focused on technological and industrial convergence using patent data.…”

Section: Technological Convergencementioning

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Technological opportunity discovery for technological convergence based on the prediction of technology knowledge flow in a citation network

Park

Yoon

2018

Journal of Informetrics

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a b s t r a c tAs technological convergence has recently become a mainstream innovation trend, technological opportunities need to be explored in heterogeneous technology fields. Most of the previous convergence studies have taken a retrospective view in measuring the degree of convergence and monitoring the converging trends. This paper proposes a quantitative future-oriented approach to technological opportunity discovery for convergence using patent information. In a future-oriented approach, technological opportunities for convergence are suggested by predicting potential technological knowledge flows (TKFs) between heterogeneous fields. The potential TKFs are predicted by a link prediction method in a directed network, which is suggested in this paper to represent the direction of the predicted TKFs by adapting the concept of bibliographic coupling and edge-betweenness centrality. Converging technological opportunities are proposed as incremental and radical technological opportunities by extracting the potential increased knowledge flow links and emerging knowledge flow links. Moreover, the direction and themes of the predicted potential TKFs are provided as technological opportunities for convergence. As an illustration of the proposed method, the technological opportunities between biotechnology (BT) and information technology (IT) are explored. Firms and researchers can use the proposed method to seek out new technological opportunities from various technologies so that R&D policymakers can plan new R&D projects on technological convergence.

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How a Convergence Product Affects Related Markets: The Case of the Mobile Phone

Cited by 13 publications

References 24 publications

The Life Cycle of Converging Industries: The Evolution of the Tablet Sector and Its Impact on Competitive Dynamics

The Life Cycle of Converging Industries: The Evolution of the Tablet Sector and Its Impact on Competitive Dynamics

Entry, Exit and Innovation over the Industry Life Cycle in Converging Sectors: An Analysis of the Smartphone Industry

Technological opportunity discovery for technological convergence based on the prediction of technology knowledge flow in a citation network

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