Session 14: Technological Innovation and Change

Topics

• Discussant Slides: George and Yoonhee

• Benner slides on Technological Change

Required Readings

• Henderson, R.M. & Clark, K. B. 1990. Architectural innovation: The reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of established firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35: 9-30.

• Anderson, P. and Tushman, M.L. 1990. Technological discontinuities and dominant designs: A cyclical model of technological change. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35: 604-633.

• Van de Ven & Garud (1993) "Innovation and Industry Development: The Case of Cochlear Implants" Vol. V in Rosenbloom & Burgelman (eds.), Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy, V, Greenwich, CT: JAI.

• Tripsas, M. 1997. Unraveling the process of creative destruction: Complementary assets and incumbent survival in the typesetter industry. Strategic Management Journal, 18, 119-142.

• Benner M.J. 2010. Securities analysts and incumbent response to radical technological change: Evidence from digital photography and internet telephony. Organization Science, 21(1): 42-62

Supplementary Readings

• • Articles from the ASQ 1990 special issue on technological innovation

  • Schumpeter, J.A. 1934. The Theory of Economic Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

  • Schumpeter, J.A. 1942. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. London: Routledge

  • Abernathy, W.J. & Utterback, J.M. 1978. Patterns of industrial innovation. Technology Review, 80: 40-47.

  • Ruttan & Hayami (1978) “Toward a theory of induced institutional innovation,” Journal of Development Studies, 203-223.

  • Dosi (1982) “Technological paradigms and technological trajectories,” Research Policy, 11: 147-162.

  • Christensen, C.M & Bower, J.L. 1996. Customer power, strategic investment, and the failure of leading firms. Strategic Management Journal, 17: 197-218.

  • Cooper, A. & Smith, C. 1992. How established firms respond to threatening technologies.Academy of Management Executive, 6(2): 55-70.

  • Gatignon, H. Tushman, M., Smith, W. & Anderson, P. 2002. A structural approach to assessing innovation. Management Science, 48: 1103-1122.

  • Garud & Karnoe (2003), “Bricolage versus breakthrough: distributed and embedded agency in technological entrepreneurship,” Research Policy: 32: 277-300.

  • Gilbert, C. G. 2005. Unbundling the Structure of Inertia: Resource versus Routine Rigidity. Academy of Management Journal, 48(5): 741-763.

  • Glasmeier, A. 1991. Technological discontinuities and flexible production networks: The case of Switzerland: The world watch industry. Research Policy, 20, 469-485.

  • Henderson, R. 1993. Underinvestment and incompetence as responses to radical innovation.Rand Journal of Economics, 24: 248-269.

  • Levinthal, D. 1992. Surviving Schumpeterian environments: An evolutionary perspective.Industrial and Corporate Change, 1, 427-443.

  • Tripsas, M. 1997. Surviving radical technological change through dynamic capability. Industrial and Corporate Change, 6: 341-377.

  • Tushman, M.L. & Anderson, P. 1986. Technological discontinuities and organizational environments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 31: 439-465.

  • Utterback, J. 1994. Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

  • Tushman & Rosenkopf, (1992), “Organizational determinants of technological change: Toward a sociology of technological evolution,” ROB, 14: 311-348.

  • Mezias & Kuperman (2000) “The community dynamics of entrepreneurship: the birth of the American film industry, 195-1929,” Jrnl of Business Venturing, 16: 209-233.

  • Benner (2007) “The incumbent discount: Stock Market categories and response to radical technological change,” AMR, 32: 703-720.

  • Nelson (2008) “What enables rapid economic progress: What are the needed institutions?” Research Policy, 37: 1-11.