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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Technological Discontinuities"”.
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Organizational responses to technological discontinuities: the case of the American College of Radiology (ACR)
… effects of so-called disruptive or discontinuous technological changes. Studies have repeatedly shown that established, incumbent organizations tend to suffer deep performance declines (and even complete demise) in the face of such changes, and researchers have devoted much attention to …
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Framing the future : cognitive frames, strategic choice and firm response to the fiber-optic revolution
Much research has sought to understand why technological discontinuities are difficult for firms to manage. While the literature devotes little attention to the role played by managerial cognition, in such equivocal situations as those created by rapid technical change, executives' cognitive frames …
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Digital photography and the dynamics of technology innovation
… to new disruptive technologies, in spite of technological competence and clear opportunity to do so. The core competencies that enabled the firm to excel under the old paradigms become core rigidities when faced with the need to address technological discontinuities. Products like digital …
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Software defined radio : a system engineering view of platform architecture and market diffusion
… corresponding switching costs, call out for a technological solution that can both evolve with the rapid advances in technology and potentially operates seamlessly across multiple incompatible networks to unify a highly fragmented system. In a system engineering context, this thesis …
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Managing the Old and New: Essays on Responses to Novel Technologies
… challenge for firms is to respond and adapt to technological change. Through three related chapters, this dissertation seeks to advance knowledge with a synthesis view of adaptation by unpacking the mechanisms underlying reshaping of technological frames (Chapter 2), strategizing processes …