Seeing What Others Miss: A Competition Network Lens on Product Innovation

The paper received the Best Paper Award at the Industry Studies Association Meetings and at the Smith Competitive Dynamics Conference. The dissertation from which this paper draws was the winner of the Strategic Management Division Outstanding Dissertation Award. The authors appreciate the thoughtful feedback from seminar audiences at Boston University, Colorado–Boulder, Harvard Business School, McGill University, New York University, Tilburg, Tulane, University of Michigan, and University of North Carolina; and audiences at the Academy of Management, DRUID, INFORMS, and Strategic Management Society Annual Meetings. The authors thank senior editor P. K. Toh and the anonymous reviewers; and Gautam Ahuja, Kathy Eisenhardt, Caroline Flammer, Javier Gimeno, Mary Tripsas, Bala Vissa, and the University College London reading group for helpful discussions, feedback, and comments. Rae Sloane, Melissa Du, and Rob Bremner provided research assistance.