Breaking bottlenecks: Power Distribution Dynamics in Industry Evolution

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Organization Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI:10.1177/01708406241252945

Sascha Albers, Jenny Gibb, Sebastian Stabenow, Jost Daft

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Abstract

Many firms vie to attain a strategic bottleneck position in their industry, as it promises superior value appropriation over an extended period. Using a mixed-methods approach, we investigated the power dynamics between bottleneck and challenger segments in the airline ticket distribution sector. Our study of the bottleneck formed by the Global Distribution System (GDS) firms reveals the mechanisms that these firms employed to maintain power, as well as the mechanisms that airlines in the challenger segment used to attain power. These mechanisms strongly influenced the momentum of power shifts as the industry evolved towards greater modularization; we show how they worked recursively in a process of power distribution dynamics during that evolution. In addition, these mechanisms explain the dynamics at work between the incumbent and challenger segments, with airlines increasing the pressure to modularize and the GDS firms resisting that pressure. Our findings contribute to the literature on industry architectural change and industry evolution by providing a comprehensive understanding of the power dynamics that affect when and how strategic bottlenecks dissolve.

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打破瓶颈：工业发展中的配电动态

许多公司都在争夺行业中的战略瓶颈地位，因为这有望在一段较长的时期内实现卓越的价值占有。我们采用混合方法研究了机票分销行业中瓶颈企业和挑战者之间的权力动态。我们对全球分销系统（GDS）公司所形成的瓶颈的研究揭示了这些公司用来维持权力的机制，以及挑战者部分的航空公司用来获得权力的机制。在航空业向更大模块化发展的过程中，这些机制对权力转移的势头产生了重大影响；我们展示了在这一演变过程中，这些机制是如何在权力分配动态过程中递归发挥作用的。此外，这些机制还解释了在位者和挑战者之间的动态变化，航空公司增加了模块化的压力，而全球分销系统公司则抵制了这种压力。我们的研究结果为有关行业结构变化和行业演变的文献做出了贡献，提供了对影响战略瓶颈何时以及如何消解的权力动态的全面理解。

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