Technological innovation : oversights and foresights

✍ Scribed by Raghu Garud; Praveen Rattan Nayyar; Zur Baruch Shapira

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The capacity for technology businesses to grow and change with the times is linked to how these businesses develop and market technological innovations. Despite the importance of technological changes for corporate vitality, there are documented instances of corporations failing to capitalize on technological opportunities. Innovation outcome is contingent upon a match between a firm's internal capabilities and its external context. Technological Innovation addresses specific ways in which the slim odds of corporate success can be enhanced. It analyzes why companies choose certain new technologies, from a technological, economic, and institutional perspective. Based on multidisciplinary research on technological choice, the book bridges research and practice to provide an enlightening and practical study

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
Section I - Introduction......Page 19
1 - Technological innovation: Oversights and foresights......Page 21
Section II - Learning to flip coins......Page 29
2 - On flipping coins and making technology choices: Luck as an explanation of technological foresight and oversight......Page 31
3 - Technological choices and the inevitability of errors......Page 38
4 - Rational entrepreneurs or optimistic martyrs? Some considerations on technological regimes, corporate entries, and the evolutionary role of decision biases......Page 59
Section III - Tailoring fits......Page 87
5 - Cognition and capabilities: Opportunities seized and missed in the history of the computer industry......Page 89
6 - Changing the game of corporate research: Learning to thrive in the fog of reality......Page 113
7 - Environmental determinants of work motivation, creativity, and innovation: The case of R&D downsizing......Page 129
Section IV - Remembering to forget......Page 145
8 - Local rationality, global blunders, and the boundaries of technological choice: Lessons from IBM and DOS......Page 147
9 - On the dynamics of forecasting in technologically complex environments: The unexpectedly long old age of optical lithography......Page 165
10 - Three faces of organizational learning: Wisdom, inertia, and discovery......Page 185
11 - Organizational entrepreneurship in mature-industry firms: Foresight, oversight, and invisibility......Page 199
12 - Minimizing technological oversights: A marketing research perspective......Page 232
Section V - (S)Top management and culture......Page 249
13 - Firm capabilities and managerial decision making: A theory of innovation biases......Page 251
14 - Organization responsiveness to environmental shock as an indicator of organizational foresight and oversight: The role of executive team characteristics and organizational context......Page 278
15 - Technological innovation, learning, and leadership......Page 297
16 - Risky lessons: Conditions for organizational learning......Page 324
17 - Exploiting enthusiasm: A case study of applied theories of innovation......Page 343
Section VI - Clearing the fog......Page 361
18 - Beating the odds: Towards a theory of technological innovation......Page 363
Author Index......Page 373
Subject Index......Page 379