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Author(s): Changgyu Yang (Department of Management Information Citation and Reference

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Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Sogang University

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Research Grant of 2012 (201210007.01).
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Purpose

– Given the increasingly saturated information and

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communication technology (ICT) market and the Systems
intensification of competition among ICT firms, there is a
need for a better understanding of entry barriers in the ICT
market. The purpose of this paper is to examine the overall
characteristics of these entry barriers and identify firms'
strategies for achieving market dominance.

Design/methodology/approach

– The authors examined the overall characteristics of these

entry barriers and identified firms' strategies for achieving

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market dominance by tracking the actual patterns of firms'

ICT market entry based on the Bass diffusion model. ISSN: 0263-5577
Online from: 1980
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Findings Information &
Knowledge
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– The results indicate that the saturation of the ICT market

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reduced entry barriers, which strengthened the imitation
effect. In addition, entry barriers were lower for ICT firms Current Issue
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than for non‐ICT ones. Furthermore, entry barriers were Earlycite

higher for the manufacturing sector than for the service RSS ToC Alert

sector, indicating that the innovation effect was stronger

for the manufacturing sector than for the service sector,
whereas the opposite was true for the imitation effect.

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– These results suggest that those firms that are planning RELATED

to enter or are already in the ICT market should develop

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Keywords: ICT market, Entry barrier, Bass diffusion model, Information development projects: a case
technology, Innovation study

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Type: Research paper management: systems,
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Citation: Changgyu Yang, Sang‐Gun Lee, Jaebeom Lee, (2013) "Entry
updated guidelines
barrier's difference between ICT and non‐ICT industries",
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