Firm strategy and age dependence: a contingent view of the liabilities of newness, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Unlike prior research on organizational age dependence, which has described entire populations as exhibiting a liability of newness, adolescence, or obsolescence, this study adopts a contingent view by considering the interactive effects of age and technology strategy. Distinctions are drawn between...

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Published in:	Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 281 - 315
Main Author:	Henderson, Andrew D.
Format:	Article
Published:	Administrative Science Quarterly June 1999
Subjects:	Organizational change Business failures Corporate growth Business planning Management Mathematical models Computer industry United States
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