caa a22 4500 530019159 20181025030418.0 cr unu---uuuuu 181024e20171117xx s 000 0 eng (ALEXREPO)oai:www.alexandria.unisg.ch:255464 Brenner Thomas Using Simulation Experiments to Test Historical Explanations: The Development of the German Dye Industry 1857-1913 [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas Brenner, Johann P. Murmann] In a simulation experiment, building on the abductive simulation approach of Brenner and Werker (2007), we test historical explanations for why German firms came to surpass British and France firms and to dominate the global synthetic dye industry for three decades before World War 1 while the U.S. never achieved large market share despite large home demand. Murmann and Homburg (2001) and Murmann (2003) argued that German firms came to dominate the global industry because of (1) the high initial number of chemists in Germany at the start of the industry in 1857, (2) the high responsiveness of the German university system and (3) the late (1877) introduction of a patent regime in Germany as well as the more narrow construction of this regime compared to Britain, France and the U.S. We test the validity of these three potential explanations with the help of simulation experiments. The experiments show that the 2nd explanation—the high responsiveness of the German university system— is the most compelling one because unlike the other two it is true for virtually all plausible historical settings. business studies alexrepo Murmann Johann P. joint author https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/255464/2/Brenner-Murmann_JEE_2016.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository Onlinezugriff via WWW text/html https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319620084 ALEXREPO 1 Book Section alexrepo NonPeerReviewed alexrepo peerstatus ALEXREPO 856 40 https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/255464/2/Brenner-Murmann_JEE_2016.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ALEXREPO 856 42 Onlinezugriff via WWW text/html https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319620084 ALEXREPO 100 1- Brenner Thomas ALEXREPO 700 1- Murmann Johann P. joint author BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 ALEXREPO ALEXREPO ALEXREPO Book Section