Industry Evolution and Entrepreneurship: Steven Klepper's Contributions to Industrial Organization, Strategy, Technological Change, and Entrepreneurship

In this review of Steven Klepper's contributions in industry evolution, employee entrepreneurship, and geographical clusters, we trace the evolution of his scholarly career. Combining insights from an in-depth interview, our own experiences with him, and our retrospective review, we also note some salient characteristics of the process that Klepper employed while undertaking his research projects, an approach we believe was integral to the fundamental insights evidenced in the content of his scholarly work. Copyright © 2014 Strategic Management Society.

[1]  Mahka Moeen,et al.  Incubation of an Industry: Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases and Modes of Value Capture , 2015 .

[2]  Rajshree Agarwal,et al.  Knowledge sources of entrepreneurship: Firm formation by academic, user and employee innovators☆ , 2014 .

[3]  Ufuk Akcigit,et al.  Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations , 2014 .

[4]  Ajay Bhaskarabhatla,et al.  Latent Submarket Dynamics and Industry Evolution: Lessons from the U.S. Laser Industry , 2013 .

[5]  Martin Ganco.  Cutting the Gordian knot: The effect of knowledge complexity on employee mobility and entrepreneurship , 2013 .

[6]  April Franco,et al.  What Do I Take with Me?: The Mediating Effect of Spin-Out Team Size and Tenure on the Founder-Firm Performance Relationship , 2013 .

[7]  Franco Malerba,et al.  The magnitude of innovation by demand in a sectoral system: The role of industrial users in semiconductors , 2013 .

[8]  Benjamin A. Campbell,et al.  Heterogeneity in turnover: The effect of relative compensation dispersion of firms on the mobility and entrepreneurship of extreme performers , 2012 .

[9]  Glenn Hoetker,et al.  Configuration of Value Chain Activities: The Effect of Pre-Entry Capabilities, Transaction Hazards, and Industry Evolution on Decisions to Internalize , 2012 .

[10]  Rajshree Agarwal,et al.  Growing pains: Pre-entry experience and the challenge of transition to incumbency† , 2012 .

[11]  Steven Klepper,et al.  High-Tech Entrepreneurship , 2011, The Journal of Law and Economics.

[12]  April Franco,et al.  Who leaves, where to, and why worry? employee mobility, entrepreneurship and effects on source firm performance , 2012 .

[13]  Mark J. Garmaise.  Ties that Truly Bind: Noncompetition Agreements, Executive Compensation, and Firm Investment , 2011 .

[14]  Christopher L. Tucci,et al.  Does the apple always fall close to the tree? The geographical proximity choice of spin‐outs , 2011 .

[15]  Olav Sorenson,et al.  Noncompete Covenants: Incentives to Innovate or Impediments to Growth , 2011, Manag. Sci..

[16]  Jing Chen,et al.  Stars and Misfits: Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions , 2008, Manag. Sci..

[17]  P. Thompson,et al.  Disagreements, employee spinoffs and the choice of technology☆ , 2011 .

[18]  W. Boeker,et al.  Parent firm effects on founder turnover: parent success, founder legitimacy, and founder tenure , 2010 .

[19]  Peter Thompson,et al.  Disagreements and Intra-industry Spinoffs , 2010 .

[20]  Boyan Jovanovic,et al.  Entry and Exit Echoes , 2010 .

[21]  April M. Franco,et al.  Swift and Smart: The Moderating Effects of Technological Capabilities on the Market Pioneering-Firm Survival Relationship , 2009, Manag. Sci..

[22]  Matt Marx,et al.  Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment , 2009, Manag. Sci..

[23]  Rosemarie H. Ziedonis,et al.  Reputations for Toughness in Patent Enforcement: Implications for Knowledge Spillovers via Inventor Mobility , 2007 .

[24]  D. Audretsch,et al.  THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION : KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS , ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC GROWTH * January 2008 , 2008 .

[25]  Glenn R. Carroll,et al.  The fates of De Novo and De Alio producers in the American Automobile Industry 1885–1981 , 2007 .

[26]  Thomas Hellmann,et al.  When Do Employees Become Entrepreneurs? , 2007, Manag. Sci..

[27]  Juan Alcácer,et al.  Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers , 2007, Manag. Sci..

[28]  S. Klepper,et al.  Submarkets and the evolution of market structure , 2006 .

[29]  Gino Cattani,et al.  Competitive Implications of Interfirm Mobility , 2006, Organ. Sci..

[30]  Steven Klepper,et al.  Heritage and Agglomeration: The Akron Tyre Cluster Revisited , 2009 .

[31]  Steven Klepper,et al.  Entry by Spinoffs , 2005, Manag. Sci..

[32]  Boyan Jovanovic.  The Pre-Producers , 2004 .

[33]  April Franco,et al.  KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER THROUGH INHERITANCE: SPIN- OUT GENERATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND SURVIVAL , 2004 .

[34]  Rosemarie H. Ziedonis.  Don't Fence Me in: Fragmented Markets for Technology and the Patent Acquisition Strategies of Firms , 2003, Manag. Sci..

[35]  Boyan Jovanovic,et al.  Shakeouts and Market Crashes , 2003 .

[36]  Sonali K. Shah,et al.  How Communities Support Innovative Activities: An Exploration of Assistance and Sharing Among End-Users , 2003 .

[37]  April M. Franco,et al.  Knowledge Diffusion through Employee Mobility , 2000 .

[38]  Damon J. Phillips.  A Genealogical Approach to Organizational Life Chances: The Parent-Progeny Transfer among Silicon Valley Law Firms, 1946–1996 , 2002 .

[39]  Steven Klepper,et al.  The capabilities of new firms and the evolution of the US automobile industry , 2002 .

[40]  Barry L. Bayus,et al.  The Market Evolution and Sales Takeoff of Product Innovations , 2002, Manag. Sci..

[41]  Christopher L. Tucci,et al.  Incumbent Entry into New Market Niches: The Role of Experience and Managerial Choice in the Creation of Dynamic Capabilities , 2002, Manag. Sci..

[42]  Steven Klepper,et al.  Firm Survival and the Evolution of Oligopoly , 2002 .

[43]  S. Klepper.  Employee Startups in High‐Tech Industries , 2001 .

[44]  A. McGahan,et al.  How does innovative activity change as industries mature , 2001 .

[45]  Rosemarie H. Ziedonis,et al.  The patent paradox revisited: an empirical study of patenting in the U , 2001 .

[46]  Fredrick Flyer,et al.  Agglomeration economies, firm heterogeneity, and foreign direct investment in the United States , 2000 .

[47]  Steven Klepper,et al.  The Making of an Oligopoly: Firm Survival and Technological Change in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry , 2000, Journal of Political Economy.

[48]  Barton H. Hamilton,et al.  Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self‐Employment , 2000, Journal of Political Economy.

[49]  R. W. Cheary,et al.  Quantitative phase analysis by X-ray diffraction of martensite and austenite in strongly oriented orthodontic stainless steel wires , 2000 .

[50]  Henry Chesbrough,et al.  Arrested development: the experience of European hard disk drive firms in comparison with US and Japanese firms , 1999 .

[51]  Ronald J. Gilson,et al.  The Legal Infrastructure of High Technology Industrial Districts: Silicon Valley, Route 128, and Covenants Not to Compete , 1998 .

[52]  Rajshree Agarwal,et al.  Evolutionary trends of industry variables , 1998 .

[53]  Boyan Jovanovic.  Michael Gort's contribution to economics , 1998 .

[54]  R. Caves.  Industrial Organization and New Findings on the Turnover and Mobility of Firms , 1998 .

[55]  Mary Tripsas.  Unraveling The Process Of Creative Destruction: Complementary Assets And Incumbent Survival In The Typesetter Industry , 1997 .

[56]  Mary Tripsas.  UNRAVELING THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION: COMPLEMENTARY ASSETS AND INCUMBENT SURVIVAL IN THE TYPESETTER INDUSTRY: UNRAVELING THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION , 1997 .

[57]  J. Sutton.  Gibrat's Legacy , 1996 .

[58]  Steven Klepper,et al.  A Reprise of Size and R & D , 1996 .

[59]  D. Acemoglu,et al.  Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence , 1996 .

[60]  Wesley M. Cohen,et al.  Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D , 1996 .

[61]  S. Klepper.  Entry, Exit, Growth, and Innovation over the Product Life Cycle , 1996 .

[62]  P. Geroski.  What do we know about entry , 1995 .

[63]  James J. Anton,et al.  Start-ups, Spin-offs, and Internal Projects , 1995 .

[64]  Boyan Jovanovic,et al.  The Life Cycle of a Competitive Industry , 1993, Journal of Political Economy.

[65]  Richard R. Nelson,et al.  The Co-evolution of Technology, Industrial Structure, and Supporting Institutions , 1994 .

[66]  James M. Utterback,et al.  Innovation, Competition, and Industry Structure , 1993 .

[67]  Wesley M. Cohen,et al.  The Anatomy of Industry R&D Intensity Distributions , 1992 .

[68]  R. Nelson.  Why do firms differ, and how does it matter? , 1991 .

[69]  M. Porter.  Towards a dynamic theory of strategy , 1991 .

[70]  A. Saxenian.  The origins and dynamics of production networks in Silicon Valley , 1991 .

[71]  J. Barney.  Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage , 1991 .

[72]  W. Mitchell.  Dual clocks: Entry order influences on incumbent and newcomer market share and survival when specialized assets retain their value , 1991 .

[73]  R. Nelson,et al.  On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope , 1990 .

[74]  Steven Klepper,et al.  The Evolution of New Industries and the Determinants of Market Structure , 1990 .

[75]  W. Mitchell.  Whether and When? Probability and Timing of Incumbents' Entry into Emerging Industrial Subfields , 1989 .

[76]  Michael Gort,et al.  The Evolution of Technologies and Investment in Innovation , 1986 .

[77]  Edward E. Leamer,et al.  Consistent Sets of Estimates for Regressions with Errors in All Variables , 1984 .

[78]  Sidney G. Winter,et al.  Schumpeterian Competition in Alternative Technological Regimes , 1983 .

[79]  David A. Garvin,et al.  Spin-offs and the New Firm Formation Process , 1983 .

[80]  Shmuel Nitzan,et al.  Optimum Contracts for Research Personnel, Research Employment, and the Establishment of "Rival" Enterprises , 1982, Journal of Labor Economics.

[81]  S. Klepper,et al.  Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations , 1982 .

[82]  Steven Garber,et al.  EXTENDING THE CLASSICAL NORMAL ERRORS-IN-VARIABLES MODEL , 1980 .

[83]  James M. Utterback,et al.  A dynamic model of process and product innovation , 1975 .