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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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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz003
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 | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor T Technology > TR Photography |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Finance Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1029-1056 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/icc/dtz003 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | 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 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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