Research within the Resource-based View and the Dynamic Capabilities View, while providing seminal insights into firm success and failure, has typically tended to focus on internal resource development rather than external resource acquisition. The growing tendency of firms to acquire resources...

We extend the transformational model of social activity proposed in recent realist social theory by importing into it a theory of technological objects and technological change. The paper begins with an account of the transformational model, focusing particularly on the relationship between...

Many technology studies have conceptualized transitions between technological generations as a series of S-curve performance improvements over time. Surprisingly, the interregnum between successive technological generations has received little attention. To understand what happens in the...