How Firms Deal with Discontinuous Innovation: An Empirical Analysis

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Author(s): Davide Aloini (University of Pisa, Italy)and Antonella Martini (University of Pisa, Italy)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 19
Source title: Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Global Redesign: Emerging Implications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ndubuisi Ekekwe (African Institution of Technology, USA)and Nazrul Islam (Aberystwyth University, Wales and Middlesex University, London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0134-5.ch008

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Global Information Technology / Information Science Reference

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Management literature has highlighted that under discontinuous conditions, incumbents have encountered serious obstacles in identifying, developing, and commercializing innovations as traditional and validated ‘good’ approaches are not adequate, or even counterproductive. It is therefore necessary to identify and deploy the practices that organisations could apply for enhancing their capacity to manage innovation under such complex environmental conditions. Based on a comprehensive literature review on search practices and on the empirical background of the Discontinuous Innovation Lab - a research network covering around 180 firms in 12 countries - a questionnaire has been submitted to a 500 high tech Italian firm sample (respondents are R&D directors or general managers). This chapter analyses in detail the relations between search practices, their antecedents (culture, organizational context, R&D expenditure, market turbulence, etc.), and performance (in terms of competences and innovation).

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