A structural decomposition analysis of technological opportunity, corporate survival, and leadership

摘要

This article considers corporate technological leadership and survival in the face of changing technological opportunities over the period 1930-1990 for firms selected from three broad industrial groups. By using US patent data in a novel application of structural decomposition analysis, it considers the extent to which selected firms' positions of technological leadership benefited from a favorable change in the structure of their technological environment relative to changes caused through firm-level choices.