Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth : Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization

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Author: Braguinsky, Sergueyほか

Publisher: The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

Publication date: 2020-06

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Note (General)：: We explore how firms grow by adding products. In contrast to most earlier work on the topic, our conceptual and empirical framework allows for separat...

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Material Type: 文書・図像類
Title: Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth : Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization
Author/Editor: Braguinsky, Serguey
Ohyama, Atsushi
Okazaki, Tetsuji
Syverson, Chad
Author Heading: Braguinsky, Serguey
https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/nrid/1000040868436
Ohyama, Atsushi
https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/nrid/1000020598825
Okazaki, Tetsuji
https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/nrid/1000090183029
Syverson, Chad
Publication, Distribution, etc.: The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
Publication Date: 2020-06
Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2020-06
Periodical title: Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers
No. or year of volume/issue: 1091
Volume: 1091
Pages: 1-65
ISSN (Periodical Title): PISSN : 0473453X
EISSN : 24350982
Text Language Code: eng
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): We explore how firms grow by adding products. In contrast to most earlier work on the topic, our conceptual and empirical framework allows for separate treatment of product innovation (vertical differentiation) and diversification (horizontal differentiation). The market context is Japan’s cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century. We find that introducing innovative products outside of the previously feasible is a key to firm growth. It provides opportunities to capture high-end vertically differentiated product markets when successful while also facilitating the firm’s growth through horizontal expansion in product space. However, this process involves a high degree of uncertainty, so firms tend to introduce innovative products on experimental basis. In long-term outcomes, the right tail of the firm size distribution becomes dominated by firms that were able to expand in both directions: moving first into technologically challenging vertically differentiated products, and then later applying their newly acquired highend technical competence to horizontal expansion of their product portfolios.
References (URI): http://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/library/dp/2020/DP1091.pdf
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http://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/library/dp/2020/DP1091.pdf
Data Provider (Database): 国立情報学研究所 : 学術機関リポジトリデータベース（IRDB）（機関リポジトリ）
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Original Data Provider (Database): 大阪大学 : 大阪大学学術情報庫　桜華