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complexity as a barrier to imitation: a standalone construct

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Strategic management

the idea that strategies built from many interacting decisions are hard for rivals to copy because small errors in replication destroy their value.

In strategic management, complexity as a barrier to imitation refers to the idea that strategies built from many interacting decisions are hard for rivals to copy because small errors in replication destroy their value. This meaning comes from Rivkin (2000) in Management Science.[1]

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barrier4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs complexity4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs imitation2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Rivkin, J. W. (2000). Imitation of Complex Strategies. Management Science, 46(6), 824-844. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.46.6.824.11940

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