Disruptive Technology Reconsidered: A Critique and Research Agenda

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine factors that affect the encroachment speed of disruptive innovations with indirect network externalities, including the attitudes and behaviors of the firms that compose the paper book value network in Japan, environmental variables such as legal and regulatory constraints, and cultural differences between Japan and the United States.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of post-truth on citizen journalism from street to tweet and found that the process neither strengthened citizen journalism nor increased public participation as it resulted in netizens experiencing severe polarization between groups critical and in support of the government instead.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the image sensor industry in which the emergence of CMOS sensors challenged the manufacturers of CCD sensors and find that CCD manufacturers that did avianize were preadapted to the disruptive CMOS technology in that they possessed relevant complementary technologies and access to in-house users that allowed them to strategically renew themselves.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, it is found that financial service organizations tend to view blockchain innovation as a lower priority due to the lack of a clear path to value, and consistently leverage industry consortiums to link to external knowledge and help with the decision-making process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a set of rules for managers to measure when traditional good management principles should be followed or rejected, based on the analysis of the disk drive industry, and demonstrate how a manager can overcome the challenges of disruptive technologies using these principles of disruptive innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the patterns of technological evolution and their impact on environmental conditions and find that technological change within a product class will be characterized by long periods of incremental change punctuated by discontinuities, and the locus of innovation will differ for competence destroying and competence-enhancing technological changes.

TL;DR: How lead users can be systematically identified, and how lead user percepts can be statistically identified, are explored.

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