U.S. Radio Receiver Producers, 1951
Steven Klepper and Ken L. Simons
Study what kind of radio producers entered TV receiver industry.
firmname - Name (subsequent names after semicolons) to 80 characters
sizefl - Size code in Thomas’ Register when first listed
homerad - Whether indicated as a home radio type producer, 1 if true else 0
unkntype - Whether indicated as an unknown-type radio type producer, 1 if true else 0
yrsexp - Years of radio experience entertv - Whether entered TV production, 1 if true 0 if not, deliberately missing (blank) for Raytheon see footnote 7 in the paper.
The two data sets contain observations on radio producers at the start of the television industry and television producers that began producing televisions by 1951, where the set of radio producers and the set of television producers and the variables in the two data files are explained in detail in Steven Klepper and Kenneth L. Simons, “Dominance by Birthright: Entry of Prior Radio Producers and Competitive Ramifications in the U.S. Television Receiver Industry,” Strategic Management Journal, vol. 21, pp. 997-1016. The data in each of the two data sets are organized in a tab-delimited ASCII file.
Steven Klepper and Kenneth L. Simons, “Dominance by Birthright: Entry of Prior Radio Producers and Competitive Ramifications in the U.S. Television Receiver Industry,” Strategic Management Journal, vol. 21, pp. 997-1016.
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