Everyday experiences speak to the accelerated pace of innovation in this era of continual change. Sometimes, innovations enhance the value of existing products and services. At other times, they render existing business models obsolete, disrupt value-networks, prompt providers to rethink who...

Innovation processes are complex. It is through local interactions among people and technologies that diverse and novel outcomes emerge. Even when governed by simple rules, such interactions can generate nonlinear temporal dynamics. Given such complexities, how might an organization sustain...

Today's industrial landscape is characterized by rapid change and systemic technologies. Rapidchange results in ever shorter product life cycles that demand continual innovation from firms.The systemic nature of technologies makes it difficult, if not impossible, for any one firm tomanufacture...

Several key technologies are converging tocreate the emerging cyberspace. Wecharacterize this convergence process as oneof cumulative synthesis and suggest that thenetwork mode of organization is the mostappropriate for facilitating convergence

We explore the challenges that digital platform-based sharing economy ventures confront in establishing legitimacy for their business models by examining the dynamics that ensued when Uber Technologies deployed its ride-sharing business model in four U.S. cities. Uber entered each city to...

We begin this paper by examining the process of innovation using Usher’s model of cumulative synthesis which comprises four steps: perception of an incomplete pattern, setting of the stage, the act of insight, and critical revision and full mastery. Going beyond a synoptic view on the process...

Firms introducing disruptive innovations into multisided ecosystems may confront the disruptor’s dilemma – they must gain the support of the very incumbents they disrupt. We examine how these firms may address this dilemma through a longitudinal study of TiVo, a company that pioneered the...

We explore the strategic adaptation by domestic firms subsequent to economic liberalization and industry deregulation in an emerging economy. We study the Indian auto components industry during a ten-year period (1992-2002), using the Prowess database complemented by in-depth interviews with...

What is it about the term "design" that facilitates the emergence of interdisciplinary interactions even though the term may hold different meanings for those involved? To address this question, we analyzed the vocabularies, practices and orders of worth proposed by the members of an...

In this paper we explore the mechanisms that allow securities analysts to value companies in contexts of Knightian uncertainty, that is, in the face of information that is unclear, subject to unforeseeable contingencies or to multiple interpretations. We address this question with a...