Perspectives on Disruptive Innovations

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1025-1042

  Kumaraswamy, Arun ^a   Garud, Raghu ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Shaz)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disruption; disruptive innovation; ecosystems; performativity; platforms; process; temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055919401     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12399     Document Type: Article

References (88)

1. Abernathy, W. J. and Clark, K. B.(1985). ‘Innovation: Mapping the winds of creative destruction’. Research policy, 14, 3–22.
2. Adner, R.(2012). The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation. New York: Penguin.
3. Adner, R. and Kapoor, R.(2010). ‘Value creation in innovation ecosystems: How the structure of technological interdependence affects firm performance in new technology generations’. Strategic Management Journal, 31, 306–33.
4. Ansari, S. M. and Garud, R. (2009). ‘Intergenerational transitions in technological ecosystems: The case of mobile telephony’. Research Policy, 38, 382–92.
5. Ansari, S., Garud, R. and Kumaraswamy, A.(2016). ‘The disruptor's dilemma: TiVo and the US television ecosystem’. Strategic Management Journal, 37, 1829–53.
6. Ansari, S. and Krop, P.(2012). ‘Incumbent performance in the face of a radical innovation: Towards a framework for incumbent challenger dynamics’. Research Policy, 41, 1357–74.
7. Austin, J. L.(1962) How to do Things with Words. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
8. Benner, M. J. and Tripsas, M.(2012). ‘The influence of prior industry affiliation on framing in nascent industries: The evolution of digital cameras’. Strategic Management Journal, 33, 277–302.
9. Bijker, W.(1995). Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Towards a Theory of Sociotechnical Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
10. Brandenburger, A. M. and Nalebuff, B. J. (1996). Co-opetition. New York: Currency Doubleday.
11. Brown, J. S. (1997). ‘Changing the game of corporate research: Learning to thrive in the fog of reality’. In Garud, R., Nayyar, P. R. and Shapira, Z. B. (Eds), Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights. New York: Cambridge University Press, 95–110.
12. Callon, M.(1998). ‘An essay on framing and overflowing: Economic externalities revisited by sociology’. The Sociological Review, 46, 244–69.
13. Christensen, C.(1997). The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
14. Christensen, C.(2006). ‘The ongoing process of building a theory of disruption’. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 23, 39–55.
15. Christensen, C., Raynor, M. and McDonald, R.(2015). ‘What is disruptive innovation?’. Harvard Business Review, December, 44–53.
16. Daft, R. L. and Lengel, R. H.(1986). ‘Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design’. Management Science, 32, 554–71.
17. Danneels, E.(2011). ‘Trying to become a different type of company: Dynamic capability at Smith Corona’. Strategic Management Journal, 32, 1–31.
18. Danneels, E.(2004). ‘Disruptive technology reconsidered: A critique and research agenda’. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 21, 246–58.
19. Dosi, G.(1982). ‘Technological paradigms and technological trajectories’. Research Policy, 11, 147–62.
20. Dougherty, D.(2016). Taking Advantage of Emergence: Productively Innovating in Complex Innovation Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
21. Dougherty, D. and Dunne, D. D.(2011). ‘Organizing ecologies of complex innovation’. Organization Science, 22, 1214–23.
22. Emirbayer, M. and Mische, A.(1998). ‘What is agency?’. American Journal of Sociology, 103, 962–1023.
23. Entman, R. M.(1993). ‘Framing: Toward clarification of a fractured paradigm’. Journal of Communication, 43, 51–58.
24. Faems, D., Van Looy, B. V. and Debackere, K.(2005). ‘Interorganizational collaboration and innovation: Toward a portfolio approach’. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 22, 238–50.
25. Gans, J.(2016). The Disruption Dilemma. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
26. Garud, R. and Gehman, J.(2012). ‘Metatheoretical perspectives on sustainability journeys: Evolutionary, relational and durational’. Research Policy, 41, 980–95.
27. Garud, R., Gehman, J. and Giuliani, A.(2018a). ‘Why not take a performative approach to entrepreneurship?’. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 9, 60–64.
28. Garud, R., Gehman, J. and Kumaraswamy, A.(2011). ‘Complexity arrangements for sustained innovation: Lessons from 3M Corporation’. Organization Studies, 32, 737–67.
29. Garud, R., Gehman, J. and Tharchen, T.(2018b). ‘Performativity as ongoing journeys: Implications for strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation’. Long Range Planning, 51, 500–509.
30. Garud, R. and Karnøe, P.(2003). ‘Bricolage vs. Breakthrough: Distributed and embedded agency in technology entrepreneurship’. Research Policy, 32, 277–300.
31. Garud, R. and Karunakaran, A.(2018). ‘Process-based ideology of participative experimentation to foster identity-challenging innovations: The case of Gmail and AdSense’. Strategic Organization, 16, 273–303.
32. Garud, R. and Kumaraswamy, A.(1995). ‘Technological and organizational designs for realizing economies of substitution’. Strategic Management Journal, 16, 93–109.
33. Garud, R., Kumaraswamy, A. and Karnoe, P. (2010). ‘Path dependence or path creation?’. Journal of Management Studies, 47, 760–74.
34. Garud, R. and Munir, K.(2008). ‘From transaction to transformation costs: The case of Polaroid's SX-70 camera’. Research Policy, 37, 690–705.
35. Garud, R., Nayyar, P. R. and Shapira, Z. B. (Eds) (1997). Technological innovation: Oversights and foresights. New York: Cambridge University Press.
36. Garud, R. and Rappa, M. A.(1994). ‘A socio-cognitive model of technology evolution: The case of cochlear implants’. Organization Science, 5, 344–62.
37. Gawer, A. and Cusumano, M. A.(2014). ‘Industry platforms and ecosystem innovation’. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31, 417–33.
38. Gilbert, C. G.(2005). ‘Unbundling the structure of inertia: Resource versus routine rigidity’. Academy of Management Journal, 48, 741–63.
39. Glasmeier, A.(1991). ‘Technological discontinuities and flexible production networks: The case of Switzerland and the world watch industry’. Research Policy, 20, 469–85.
40. Gnyawali, D. and Park, B.(2011). ‘Coopetition between giants: Collaboration with competitors for technological innovation’. Research Policy, 40, 650–63.
41. Goffman, E.(1974). Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
42. Grimes, M.(2017). ‘The pivot: How founders respond to feedback through idea and identity work’. Academy of Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2015.0823.
43. Gray, B., Purdy, B. and Ansari, S.(2015). ‘From interactions to institutions: Microprocesses of framing and mechanisms for the structuring of institutional fields’. Academy of Management Review, 40, 115–43.
44. Gurses, K. and Ozcan, P.(2015). ‘Entrepreneurship in regulated markets: Framing contests and collective action to introduce pay TV in the US’. Academy of Management Journal, 58, 1709–39.
45. Hagiu, A.(2014). ‘Strategic decisions for multisided platforms’. MIT Sloan Management Review, 55, 71–80.
46. Hatch, M. J. and Schultz, M.(2017). ‘Toward a theory of using history authentically: Historicizing in the Carlsberg Group’. Administrative Science Quarterly, 62, 657–97.
47. Hernes, T.(2008). Understanding Organization as Process: Theory for a Tangled World. London: Routledge.
48. Iansiti, M. and Levien, R.(2004). The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
49. Jacobides, M., Knudsen, T. and Augier, M.(2006). ‘Benefiting from innovation: Value creation, value appropriation and the role of industry architectures’. Research Policy, 35, 1200–21.
50. Jacobides, M. G., Cennamo, C. and Gawer, A.(2018). ‘Towards a theory of ecosystems’. Strategic Management Journal, 39, 2255–76.
51. Kaplan, S. and Tripsas, M.(2008). ‘Thinking about technology: Applying a cognitive lens to technical change’. Research Policy, 37, 790–805.
52. Kapoor, R. and Klueter, T.(2015). ‘Decoding the adaptability-rigidity puzzle: Evidence from pharmaceutical incumbents’ pursuit of gene therapy and monoclonal antibodies’. Academy of Management Journal, 58, 1180–207.
53. King, A. and Baatartogtokh, B.(2015). ‘How useful is the theory of disruptive innovation’. MIT Sloan Management Review, 57, 77–90.
54. Leonard-Barton, D.(1992). ‘Core capabilities and core rigidities: A paradox in managing new product development’. Strategic Management Journal, 13, 111–25.
55. Leonardi, P. M.(2011). ‘Innovation blindness: Culture, frames, and cross-boundary problem construction in the development of new technology concepts’. Organization Science, 22, 347–69.
56. Lepore, J.(2014). The disruption machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong. The New Yorker, May 23.
57. Levinthal, D. A. and March, J. G.(1993). ‘The myopia of learning’. Strategic Management Journal, 14, 95–112.
58. Lindahl, L.(1998). ‘Spence silver: A scholar and a gentleman’. 3M Today, 15 (1), 12–17.
59. Markides, C.(2006). ‘Disruptive innovation: In need of better theory’. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 23, 19–25.
60. Mead, G. H.(1932). The Philosophy of the Present. Chicago, IL: Open Court Publishing Company.
61. Moore, J. F.(1996.) The Death of Competition: Leadership & Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems. New York: Harper Business.
62. Nambisan, S., Siegel, D. and Kenney, M.(2018). ‘On open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship’. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1300.
63. Orlikowski, W. J. and Gash, D. C.(1994). ‘Technological frames—making sense of information technology in organizations’. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 12, 174–207.
64. Osiyevskyy, O. and Dewald, J.(2015). ‘Explorative versus exploitative business model change: The cognitive antecedents of firm-level responses to disruptive innovation’. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9, 58–78.
65. Parker, G. G., Van Alstyne, M. W. and Choudary, S. P.(2016). Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets are Transforming the Economy and how to Make them Work for You. New York: WW Norton & Company.
66. Raffaelli, R.(2018). ‘Technology reemergence: Creating new value for old technologies in Swiss mechanical watchmaking, 1970–2008’. Administrative Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839218778505.
67. Reinecke, J. and Ansari,S.(2016). ‘Time, temporality, and process studies’. In Langley, A. and Tsoukas, H. (Eds), Sage Handbook of Process Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 404–18.
68. Ricoeur, P.(1984). Time and Narrative. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
69. Ries, E.(2011). The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. New York: Crown Books.
70. Rochet, J. C. and Tirole, J.(2003). ‘Platform competition in two-sided markets’. Journal of The European Economic Association, 1, 990–1029.
71. Sakkab, N. Y.(2002). ‘Connect & develop complements research & develop at P&G’. Research-Technology Management, 45 (2), 38–45.
72. Santos, F. M. and Eisenhardt, K. M.(2009). ‘Constructing markets and shaping boundaries: Entrepreneurial power in nascent fields’. Academy of Management Journal, 52, 643–71.
73. Schumpeter, J. A.(1942/1994). Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. London: Routledge.
74. Sood, A. and Tellis, G. J.(2011). ‘Demystifying disruption: A new model for understanding and predicting disruptive technologies’. Marketing Science, 30, 339–54.
75. Teece, D. J.(1986). ‘Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy’. Research Policy, 15, 285–305.
76. Tellis, G. J.(2006). ‘Disruptive technology or visionary leadership?’. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 23, 34–38.
77. Thananusak, T. and Ansari, S. (2019). ‘Scholarly communications and digital disruption: The emergence of altmetrics and open access publishing in management studies’. In Zilber, T. B., Amis, J. and Mair, J. (Eds), The production of managerial knowledge and organizational theory: New approaches to writing, producing and consuming theory. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited (forthcoming).
78. Tharchen, T. and Garud, R.(2017). The Emergence of New Market Categories in Stigmatized Industries: The Case of E-Cigarettes. Farrell Center Working Paper, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
79. The Economist (2015). Disrupting Mr. Disrupter. 26 November. Available at: https://www.economist.com/business/2015/11/26/disrupting-mr-disrupter (accessed 15 May 2018).
80. Tripsas, M. and Gavetti, G.(2000). ‘Capabilities, cognition, and inertia: Evidence from digital imaging’. Strategic Management Journal, 21, 1147–61.
81. Tushman, M. L. and Anderson, P.(1986). ‘Technological discontinuities and organizational environments’. Administrative Science Quarterly, 31, 439–65.
82. Usher, A. P.(1954). A History of Mechanical Inventions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
83. Utterback, J. and Abernathy, W.(1975). ‘A dynamic model of process and product innovation’. Omega, 33, 639–56.
84. Van de Ven, A. H. and Garud, R.(1989). ‘A framework for understanding the emergence of new industries’. In Rosenbloom, R. and Burgelman, R. (Eds), Research on Technological Innovation and Management Policy, Vol. 4. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 195–226.
85. Van de Ven, A. H., Polley, D., Garud, R. and Venkataraman, S. 1999. The Innovation Journey. New York: Oxford University Press.
86. Vuori, T. O. and Huy, Q. N.(2016). ‘Distributed attention and shared emotions in the innovation process: How Nokia lost the smartphone battle’. Administrative Science Quarterly, 61, 9–51.
87. Yin, E., Ansari, S. and Akhtar, N.(2017). ‘Radical innovation, paradigm shift and incumbent’s dilemma the case of the auto industry’. Future Studies Research Journal: Trends and Strategies, 9, 138–48.
88. Yoo, Y., Boland Jr, R. J., Lyytinen, K. and Majchrzak, A.(2012). ‘Organizing for innovation in the digitized world’. Organization Science, 23, 1398–408.