Competitive intelligence : drivers and consequences of executives' attention to competitors in enterprise software
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this dissertation, I investigate executives' attention to competitors and the implications for firm innovation. Using a hand-collected dataset on competition, innovation, and executive experience in the full population of public U.S. enterprise infrastructure software firms, I examine attention to competitions in three empirical papers. In the first paper, I show that attending to competitors that activate opportunity-based rather than threat-based views of competition has a positive relationship with product innovation. In the second paper, I show that executives are more attentive to competitors at the periphery of an industry when the experience of the executive team amplifies (i.e. mirrors) the experience of the CEO. In the third paper, I use social network analysis to show that personal similarities between CEOs can influence competition between firms. As a whole, my dissertation suggests that executives can be strategic in how they think about competition, with tangible benefits for firm performance.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Thatchenkery, Sruthi |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Katila, Riitta |
| Thesis advisor | Katila, Riitta |
| Thesis advisor | Byers, Thomas (Thomas H.) |
| Thesis advisor | Eesley, Charles |
| Thesis advisor | Eisenhardt, Kathleen M |
| Advisor | Byers, Thomas (Thomas H.) |
| Advisor | Eesley, Charles |
| Advisor | Eisenhardt, Kathleen M |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sruthi Thatchenkery. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Sruthi Monica Thatchenkery
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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