1 The seminal work on the product life cycle is “International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle” by Raymond Vernon, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1966, vol. 80, p. 190–207. A contemporary review of the product life cycle is found in Marketing Management by Philip Kotler, Prentice-Hall, 11th ed., 2002.

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