Innovation
To 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 CreatingAn 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 BritannicaThis 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 learningWhat 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 EvolutionFirms 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 DisplaysHow 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 StepsWhy 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 ecosystemsPlatform 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 MetaorganizationsAlthough the link betweencoordination requirements and vertical integration istheoretically well established, empirical tests of thisrelationship are hard to implement due to the simulta-neous determination of both variables. In this study,we…
Read More about The effect of coordination requirements on sourcing: Evidence from patent prosecution servicesThis study examines how product innovation contributes to the renewal of the firm through its dynamic and reciprocal relation with the firm’s competences. Field research in five high-tech firms of…
Read More about Christian Stadler on Erwin Danneels about innovation & competence renewal