This paper advances a general and unified framework to explain the patterns of entry in an industry. The specificity of a type of entrant is examined based on the match between the entrant’s prior experience, in terms of knowledge endowment, and the target industry context. The knowledge endowment is analyzed by focusing on its content—market, technological, organizational, and scientific—and its generic and specific nature. The target industry context is examined by looking at four basic dimensions: the stage of development of the target industry (the time dimension); the specific technological regime and related innovation patterns (the technological dimension); the demand regime (the demand dimension); and the institutional regime (the institutional dimension). These dimensions moderate the matching between the knowledge endowment of the type of entrants and the features of the industrial contexts. Our newly proposed taxonomy offers a more systematic and nuanced explanation of how the complex relationship between pre-entry experience and knowledge, entrants and the chosen target industry evolves over time.

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进入者异质性、进入前知识和目标行业背景：分类法和框架

本文提出了一个通用且统一的框架来解释行业的进入模式。根据进入者先前的知识禀赋经验与目标行业背景之间的匹配情况来检查进入者类型的特殊性。知识禀赋的分析侧重于其内容——市场、技术、组织和科学——及其一般性和特殊性。目标行业背景通过四个基本维度来考察：目标行业的发展阶段（时间维度）；具体的技术体制和相关的创新模式（技术维度）；需求制度（需求维度）；和制度体系（制度层面）。这些维度调节了进入者类型的知识禀赋与产业背景特征之间的匹配度。我们新提出的分类法对进入前的经验和知识、进入者和所选目标行业之间的复杂关系如何随着时间的推移而演变提供了更系统和细致的解释。