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Pre-Entry Resources, Strategic Positioning Choices and Introduction of Dominant Designs: Evidence from the Hard Disk Drive Industry

2013
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We investigate the role that strategic positioning choices and pre-entry endowments play in determining the post entry innovative performance of firms that enter new markets. We hypothesize that the flexibility enjoyed by small entrants allows them to position themselves aggressively in new markets and results in higher innovative performance. We also argue that not all small entrants suffer from a liability of newness and some possess pre-entry endowments that can help anticipate and introduce product offerings with dominant design elements.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk, is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored and retrieved in any order.

Strategic management

In the field of management, strategic management involves the formulation and implementation of the major goals and initiatives taken by an organization's managers on behalf of stakeholders, based on consideration of resources and an assessment of the internal and external environments in which the organization operates. Strategic management provides overall direction to an enterprise and involves specifying the organization's objectives, developing policies and plans to achieve those objectives, and then allocating resources to implement the plans.

Hard disk drive performance characteristics

Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped into two categories: access time and data transfer time (or rate). The access time or response time of a rotating drive is a measure of the time it takes before the drive can actually transfer data. The factors that control this time on a rotating drive are mostly related to the mechanical nature of the rotating disks and moving heads.

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