This paper addresses the implications of hybridity for strategic choices with products and businesses by focusing on the role of social business hybrids’ customers. It argues that hybridity can be a source of competitive advantage in the marketplace, but also create hurdles to firms’ ability to scale up their business. Diversification represents a potential choice that simultaneously generates growth, preserves hybridity, and avoids negative demand-side externalities. This paper analyzes the optimal type, timing, and scope of such diversification.
Social business hybrids: demand externalities, competitive advantage, and growth through diversification
FOSFURI, ANDREA;GIARRATANA, MARCO;ROCA BATLLORI, ESTHER
2016
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This paper addresses the implications of hybridity for strategic choices with products and businesses by focusing on the role of social business hybrids’ customers. It argues that hybridity can be a source of competitive advantage in the marketplace, but also create hurdles to firms’ ability to scale up their business. Diversification represents a potential choice that simultaneously generates growth, preserves hybridity, and avoids negative demand-side externalities. This paper analyzes the optimal type, timing, and scope of such diversification.File in questo prodotto:
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