This article investigates whether firms react to a radical technological substitution threat by a deliberate acceleration of innovation in their existing technology - the 'sailing ship effect'. There have been repeated claims that the effect has been significant as a source of innovation...

This paper will argue that case studies in innovation research at the level of the firm require an explicit model of how people think and act in organisations. The 'socio-cognitive' approach which is outlined here combines Weick's social psychological ideas with Teece's characterisation of the...

This article investigates whether firms react to a radical technological substitution threat by a deliberate acceleration of innovation in their existing technology - the "sailing ship effect". There have been repeated claims that the effect has been significant as a source of innovation...

This paper revisits the quot;what causes innovation - market pull or technology push?quot; debate to argue that the conceptualisation is flawed and that the firm is the only quot;agentquot; capable of innovative action. The paper differentiates between quot;usequot;, quot;needquot; and...