Knowledge & Innovation IG
The role of founders and founder competences is critical as firms progress along their life cycles, whereby founders face decisions about which tasks deserve their attention and which ones they…
Read More about Founder–inventors and their investors: Spurring firm survival and growthAn established and leading firm, such as Encyclopædia Britannica, would seem to have enormous advantages over its competitors in a new market. Why would a successful firm come to have…
Read More about Shane Greenstein on the Decline of Encyclopedia BritannicaTo innovate, managers are often advised to make strategic decisions based on changes in their external business environment. Our research suggests that managers should also consider how strategic decision‐making enables…
Read More about Kauppila, Bizzi and Obstfeld: Connecting and CreatingHas the entrepreneurial journey remained unchanged over the past decades? And if there have been substantive changes, what are they? And what are their implications? These are critical questions that…
Read More about A fresh look at patterns and assumptions in the field of entrepreneurshipWhat determines firm outcomes in terms of acquisition, dissolution, and survival? This article answers this crucial question of strategy and elaborates on the extent to which the outcome is under…
Read More about The Nanoeconomics of FirmLevel DecisionMaking and Industry EvolutionThis paper examines differences in the rate and potential of firms’ capability development trajectories. Capability development trajectories are the paths over which firms’ capabilities change with experience and other activities.…
Read More about Rockart & Dutt on competitive advantages from learningHow do innovators from lower levels of an organization gain approval for their innovations especially when their ideas do not readily fit their organization’s strategy? To explore this question, we…
Read More about If You Want to Innovate, Follow These 5 StepsFirms facing technological uncertainty may need to recover from unlucky bets. But responding to failure is politically and organizationally difficult. This study explores how IBM recovered from its failed bet…
Read More about JP Eggers: Reversing Course: Competing Technologies, Mistakes, and Renewal in Flat Panel DisplaysPlatform ecosystems have spurred new products and services, sparked innovation, and improved economic efficiency in various industries and technology sectors. A distinctive feature of the platform architecture is its modular…
Read More about Platform Ecosystems as MetaorganizationsWhy do some new technologies emerge and quickly supplant incumbent technologies while others take years or decades to take off? We explore this question by presenting a framework that considers…
Read More about Value creation in innovation ecosystems