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Commitment to a Process Innovation: Nucor, USX, and Thin-Slab Casting

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  • Ghemawat, Pankaj

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This paper studies the order of adoption of a process innovation, thin-slab casting, by U.S. steelmakers. A game-theoretic model of technology adoption with capacity constraints indicates that incumbents are likely to trail entrants in adopting process technologies that reduce the minimal scale required to compete. Evidence from the case study also indicates, however, that the sorts of interactive effects emphasized by game-theoretic models may be dominated by the effects of competitors' heterogeneous precommitments. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.

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  • Ghemawat, Pankaj, 1993. "Commitment to a Process Innovation: Nucor, USX, and Thin-Slab Casting," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 2(1), pages 135-161, Spring.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jemstr:v:2:y:1993:i:1:p:135-61
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    1. Luís Cabral & Cristian Dezső, 2008. "Technology Adoption with Multiple Alternative Designs and the Option to Wait," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 17(2), pages 413-441, June.
    2. Byong‐Duk Rhee & Seth W. Norton, 2001. "Strategic Quality Decisions under Heterogeneous Resource Endowments," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 10(2), pages 235-264, June.
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    5. Pankaj Ghemawat, 1994. "Competitive Advantage and Internal Organization: Nucor Revisited," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 3(4), pages 685-717, December.
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    10. Richard A. Jensen, 2004. "Multiplant Firms and Innovation Adoption and Diffusion," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 70(3), pages 661-671, January.

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