Disruptive Technology Reconsidered: A Critique and Research Agenda

TL;DR: In this article, a leading Chinese multinational enterprise in a core sector of the fourth industrial revolution manages research collaborations within and beyond its sectoral systems of innovation to create novel innovations and push the technological frontier of the industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how a nation's adoption of creatively destroying innovations is related to cultural looseness, which is a norm-based measure of informal institutions, and global connectedness.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review and classification of existing theoretical developments and empirical evidence on the subject of disruptive technology is carried out, and with no intention of developing a new theory, the authors carried out a review, classification, and analysis of existing literature.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative longitudinal case-study of a world-class cluster is analyzed over the last eighteen years, and the authors show that there are temporary technological gatekeepers across cluster life cycles which assume the (temporary) role of leaders when it is a question of bringing in disruptive knowledge.

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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