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“Breaking the mirror”: interface innovation and market capture by Japanese professional camera firms, 1955–1974

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Windrum, Paul, Haynes, Michelle and Thompson, Peter (2019) “Breaking the mirror”: interface innovation and market capture by Japanese professional camera firms, 1955–1974. Industrial and Corporate Change, 28 (5). pp. 1029-1056. doi:10.1093/icc/dtz003

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Abstract

Improving an interface to increase control over interactions between existing product modules can create new product features which alter the basis of competition in mature (sub)markets. We empirically examine the impact of interface innovation by new market entrants from Japan in the high-end, professional camera submarket between 1955 and 1974. Prior to 1960, the industry architecture of the professional camera submarket was modular, dominated by German specialist body and specialist lens manufacturers. This market structure changed due to the success of integrated Japanese startups who, from 1961, offered novel automated exposure features, facilitated by improving the existing interface between the camera body and lens, and by making this interface a proprietary standard. Their success broke the mirror between the industry architecture, which became vertically integrated, while the product architecture remained modular.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
T Technology > TR Photography
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Finance Group
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Camera industry -- History, Cameras -- Germany, Cameras -- Japan
Journal or Publication Title: Industrial and Corporate Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0960-6491
Official Date: October 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
October 2019Published
4 March 2019Available
21 December 2018Accepted
Volume: 28
Number: 5
Page Range: pp. 1029-1056
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtz003
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Industrial and Corporate Change following peer review. The version of record Paul Windrum, Michelle Haynes, Peter Thompson, “Breaking the mirror”: interface innovation and market capture by Japanese professional camera firms, 1955–1974, Industrial and Corporate Change, , dtz003 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz003
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