The disruptor's dilemma: TiVo and the U.S. television ecosystem

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1829-1853

  Ansari, Shahzad Shaz ^a   Garud, Raghu ^b   Kumaraswamy, Arun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

commercialization; disruptive innovation; ecosystems; entrepreneurship process; strategy framing; strategy process

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ECOLOGY; LEGACY SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS;

COMMERCIALIZATION; DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDERS; DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; RELATIONAL POSITIONING; STRATEGY FRAMING; STRATEGY PROCESS; TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84952705701     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2442     Document Type: Article

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