Zhongyuan Sun

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Evolutionary theory, technology and innovation

Routines, technological change, innovation and industry dynamics.

Of its 206 readings, 35 are assigned in two or more sources and listed first, with the number of sources beside each (in bold for the core readings, in 4 or more); the 171 listed in only one source are folded under each heading.

In the theory tree: grows out of 15 Behavioral theory of the firm and organizational learning; leads to 19 Resource-based view and capabilities.

Drawn from: Eggers (NYU); Yao (HBS); Jia (USC); Amit (Wharton); Lu, Li, Park, Yang & Yan (CityU); Maoret (IESE); Zhou (HKU); Kogut & Keum (Columbia); Levinthal (Wharton); Clough (UBC); Glaser (Alberta); Glennon (Wharton); DiMaggio (Princeton); Zuckerman (MIT); Dobbin (Harvard); Peng (UT Dallas); Lounsbury & Zhao (Oxford Bibliographies); Pollock (Tennessee); Marquis (HBS); Sullivan (HKUST); Yue (USC). Full details of the sources are on the reading lists page.

By decade

Before 1950: 2 readings<19501950s: 1 reading1950s1960s: 3 readings1960s1970s: 2 readings1970s1980s: 25 readings1980s1990s: 45 readings1990s2000s: 66 readings662000s2010s: 58 readings2010s2020s: 4 readings2020s
Most date from the 2000s; half were published in 2003 or later.

16.1 Evolutionary theory and routines

  1. Aldrich, H. E., & Ruef, M. (2006). Organizations evolving (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications.9
  2. Nelson, R. R., & Winter, S. G. (1982). An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.7
  3. Levinthal, D. A. (1997). Adaptation on Rugged Landscapes. Management Science, 43(7), 934–950. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.43.7.9344
  4. Schumpeter, J. (1934). The Theory of Economic Development. Oxford University Press.2
  5. Schumpeter, J. A. (1942). Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (3rd ed.). Harper Perennial Modern Classics.2
  6. Simon, H. (1962). The architecture of complexity. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.2
  7. Carroll, G. R., & Harrison, J. R. (1994). On the Historical Efficiency of Competition Between Organizational Populations. American Journal of Sociology, 100(3), 720–749. https://doi.org/10.1086/2305792
  8. Nelson, R. R., & Winter, S. G. (2002). Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16(2), 23–46. https://doi.org/10.1257/08953300272472
  9. Barnett, W. P. (2002). The Red Queen in organizational creation and development. Industrial and Corporate Change, 11(2), 289–325. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/11.2.2892
22 more, listed in one source
  1. Campbell, D. T. (1965). Variation and selective retention in socio-cultural evolution. In H. R. Barringer, G. I. Blanksten, & R. W. Mack (Eds.), Social Change in Developing Areas: A Reinterpretation of Evolutionary Theory (pp. 19–48). Schenkman.
  2. Gould, S. J., & Lewontin, R. C. (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. In E. Sober (Ed.), Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (pp. 252–70). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1979.0086
  3. Nelson, R., & Winter, S. (1982). Organizational capabilities and behavior. In An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Harvard University Press.
  4. Tushman, M. L., & Romanelli, E. (1985). Organizational evolution: A metamorphosis model of convergence and reorientation. In L. Cummings & B. Staw (Eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior (Vol. 7, pp. 171–222). JAI Press.
  5. Hawley, A. H. (1986). Human ecology: A theoretical essay. University of Chicago Press.
  6. Hannan, M. T., & Freeman, J. (1989). Boundaries of Forms and Populations; Competition and the Niche; Modelling the Dynamics of Organizational Populations. In Pp. 45-70 in Organizational Ecology (pp. 91–144). Harvard University Press.
  7. Gersick, C. J. G. (1991). Revolutionary Change Theories: A Multilevel Exploration of the Punctuated Equilibrium Paradigm. Academy of Management Review, 16(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.2307/258605
  8. Nelson, R. R. (1994). The Co-evolution of Technology, Industrial Structure, and Supporting Institutions. Industrial and Corporate Change, 3(1), 47–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/3.1.47
  9. March, J. G. (1994). The Evolution of Evolution. In J. A. C. Baum & J. V. Singh (Eds.), Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations (pp. 39–45). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195077360.003.0003
  10. Ahl, V., & Allen, T. F. H. (1996). Hierarchy Theory: A Vision, Vocabulary, and Epistemology. Columbia University Press.
  11. Simon, H. A. (1996). The sciences of the artificial. MIT Press.
  12. Winter, S. G. (1998). Competition and. In J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, & P. Newman (Eds.), The New Palgrave. Palgrave Macmillan.
  13. Feldman, M. S. (2000). Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change. Organization Science, 11(6), 611–629. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.11.6.611.12529
  14. Carroll, G. R., & Hannan, M. T. (2000). The Demographic Perspective. In The Demography of Corporations and Industries (pp. 17–31). Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186795-006
  15. Knott, A. M. (2001). The Dynamic Value of Hierarchy. Management Science, 47(3), 430–448. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.47.3.430.9776
  16. Zollo, M., & Winter, S. G. (2002). Deliberate Learning and the Evolution of Dynamic Capabilities. Organization Science, 13(3), 339–351. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.13.3.339.2780
  17. Siggelkow, N. (2002). Misperceiving Interactions Among Complements and Substitutes: Organizational Consequences. Management Science, 48(7), 900–916. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.48.7.900.2820
  18. Hodgson, G. M., & Knudsen, T. (2010). Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226346922.001.0001
  19. Zbaracki, M. J., & Bergen, M. (2010). When Truces Collapse: A Longitudinal Study of Price-Adjustment Routines. Organization Science, 21(5), 955–972. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1090.0513
  20. Pontikes, E. G., & Barnett, W. P. (2017). The Coevolution of Organizational Knowledge and Market Technology. Strategy Science, 2(1), 64–82. https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2017.0026
  21. Pontikes, E. G., & Barnett, W. P. (2017). The Non-consensus Entrepreneur: Organizational Responses to Vital Events. Administrative Science Quarterly, 62(1), 140–178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839216661150
  22. Salvato, C., & Rerup, C. (2018). Routine Regulation: Balancing Conflicting Goals in Organizational Routines. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63(1), 170–209. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839217707738

16.2 Industry evolution and life cycles

  1. Klepper, S. (1996). Entry, Exit, Growth, and Innovation over the Product Life Cycle. American Economic Review, 86, 562–583.2
  2. Klepper, S., & Simons, K. L. (2000). Dominance by birthright: entry of prior radio producers and competitive ramifications in the U.S. television receiver industry. Strategic Management Journal, 21(10-11), 997–1016. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0266(200010/11)21:10/11<997::aid-smj134>3.0.co;2-o2
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  1. Utterback, J. M., & Abernathy, W. J. (1975). A dynamic model of process and product innovation. Omega, 3(6), 639–656. https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-0483(75)90068-7
  2. Jovanovic, B. (1982). Selection and the Evolution of Industry. Econometrica, 50(3), 649. https://doi.org/10.2307/1912606
  3. Gort, M., & Klepper, S. (1982). Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations. The Economic Journal, 92(367), 630. https://doi.org/10.2307/2232554
  4. Dunne, T., Roberts, M. J., & Samuelson, L. (1988). Patterns of Firm Entry and Exit in U.S. Manufacturing Industries. The RAND Journal of Economics, 19(4), 495. https://doi.org/10.2307/2555454
  5. Klepper, S., & Graddy, E. (1990). The Evolution of New Industries and the Determinants of Market Structure. The RAND Journal of Economics, 21(1), 27. https://doi.org/10.2307/2555491
  6. Jovanovic, B., & MacDonald, G. M. (1994). The Life Cycle of a Competitive Industry. Journal of Political Economy, 102(2), 322–347. https://doi.org/10.1086/261934
  7. Klepper, S. (1997). Industry Life Cycles. Industrial and Corporate Change, 6(1), 145–182. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/6.1.145
  8. Sutton, J. (1998). Technology and Market Structure. In Technology and Market Structure: Theory and History. MIT Press.
  9. Cabral, L. M. B., & Mata, J. (2003). On the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution: Facts and Theory. American Economic Review, 93(4), 1075–1090. https://doi.org/10.1257/000282803769206205
  10. Lenox, M. J., Rockart, S. F., & Lewin, A. Y. (2006). Interdependency, Competition, and the Distribution of Firm and Industry Profits. Management Science, 52(5), 757–772. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1050.0495
  11. Thompson, P., & Klepper, S. (2006). Intra-Industry Spinoffs. Florida International University, Department of Economics Working Papers, No. 605.
  12. Knudsen, T., Levinthal, D. A., & Winter, S. G. (2014). Hidden but in plain sight: The role of scale adjustment in industry dynamics. Strategic Management Journal, 35(11), 1569–1584. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2197

16.3 Technological change and discontinuities

  1. Tushman, M. L., & Anderson, P. (1986). Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 31(3), 439. https://doi.org/10.2307/23928327
  2. Henderson, R. M., & Clark, K. B. (1990). Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.2307/23935497
  3. Arthur, W. B. (1989). Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events. The Economic Journal, 99(394), 116. https://doi.org/10.2307/22342084
  4. Anderson, P., & Tushman, M. L. (1990). Technological Discontinuities and Dominant Designs: A Cyclical Model of Technological Change. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(4), 604. https://doi.org/10.2307/23935113
  5. Christensen, C. M., & Bower, J. L. (1996). Customer power, strategic investment, and the failure of leading firms. Strategic Management Journal, 17(3), 197–218. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199603)17:3<197::aid-smj804>3.0.co;2-u3
  6. Tripsas, M. (1997). Unraveling the process of creative destruction: Complementary assets and incumbent survival in the typesetter industry. Strategic Management Journal, 18(S1), 119–142. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199707)18:1+<119::aid-smj921>3.0.co;2-03
  7. Adner, R., & Zemsky, P. (2005). Disruptive Technologies and the Emergence of Competition. RAND Journal of Economics.3
  8. Dosi, G. (1982). Technological paradigms and technological trajectories. Research Policy, 11(3), 147–162. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(82)90016-62
  9. David, P. (1985). Clio and the Economics of QWERTY. American Economic Review.2
  10. Henderson, R. (1993). Underinvestment and Incompetence as Responses to Radical Innovation: Evidence from the Photolithographic Alignment Equipment Industry. The RAND Journal of Economics, 24(2), 248. https://doi.org/10.2307/25557612
  11. King, A. A., & Tucci, C. L. (2002). Incumbent Entry into New Market Niches: The Role of Experience and Managerial Choice in the Creation of Dynamic Capabilities. Management Science, 48(2), 171–186. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.48.2.171.2532
  12. Eggers, J. P. (2014). Competing technologies and industry evolution: The benefits of making mistakes in the flat panel display industry. Strategic Management Journal, 35(2), 159–178. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.21292
  13. Raffaelli, R. (2019). Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970–2008. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(3), 576–618. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392187785052
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  1. Pavitt, K. (1984). Sectoral patterns of technical change: Towards a taxonomy and a theory. Research Policy, 13(6), 343–373. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(84)90018-0
  2. Abernathy, W. J., & Clark, K. B. (1985). Innovation: Mapping the winds of creative destruction. Research Policy, 14(1), 3–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(85)90021-6
  3. Katz, M. L., & Shapiro, C. (1986). Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities. Journal of Political Economy, 94(4), 822–841. https://doi.org/10.1086/261409
  4. Romer, P. M. (1990). Endogenous Technological Change. Journal of Political Economy, 98(5, Part 2), S71–S102. https://doi.org/10.1086/261725
  5. Leonard-Barton, D. (1992). Core capabilities and core rigidities: A paradox in managing new product development. Strategic Management Journal, 13(S1), 111–125. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250131009
  6. Rosenbloom, R. S., & Christensen, C. M. (1994). Technological Discontinuties, Organizational Capabilities, and Strategic Commitments. Industrial and Corporate Change, 3(3), 655–685. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/3.3.655
  7. Van de Ven, A., & Garud, R. (1994). The Coevolution of technical and Institutional Events in the Development of Innovation. In J. A. C. Baum & J. Singh (Eds.), Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations (pp. 425–443). Oxford University Press.
  8. Christensen, C. M., & Rosenbloom, R. S. (1995). Explaining the attacker's advantage: Technological paradigms, organizational dynamics, and the value network. Research Policy, 24(2), 233–257. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(93)00764-k
  9. Bresnahan, T. F., & Trajtenberg, M. (1995). General purpose technologies ‘Engines of growth’? Journal of Econometrics, 65(1), 83–108. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4076(94)01598-t
  10. Brynjolfsson, E., & Hitt, L. (1996). Paradox Lost? Firm-Level Evidence on the Returns to Information Systems Spending. Management Science, 42(4), 541–558. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.42.4.541
  11. Christensen, C. M. (1997). The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business. HarperBusiness.
  12. Adner, R. (2002). When are technologies disruptive? a demand‐based view of the emergence of competition. Strategic Management Journal, 23(8), 667–688. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.246
  13. Forman, C., Goldfarb, A., & Greenstein, S. (2005). How did location affect adoption of the commercial Internet? Global village vs. urban leadership. Journal of Urban Economics, 58(3), 389–420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2005.05.004
  14. Lipsey, R. G., Carlaw, K. I., & Bekar, C. T. (2005). Technology and Technological Change. In Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-Term Economic Growth (pp. 85–130). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199285648.003.0004
  15. Rindova, V. P., & Petkova, A. P. (2007). When Is a New Thing a Good Thing? Technological Change, Product Form Design, and Perceptions of Value for Product Innovations. Organization Science, 18(2), 217–232. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1060.0233
  16. Wu, B., Wan, Z., & Levinthal, D. A. (2014). Complementary assets as pipes and prisms: Innovation incentives and trajectory choices. Strategic Management Journal, 35(9), 1257–1278. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2159
  17. Fuchs, E. R. H. (2014). Global manufacturing and the future of technology. Science, 345(6196), 519–520. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1250193
  18. Yang, C.-H., Nugent, R., & Fuchs, E. R. H. (2016). Gains from others’ losses: Technology trajectories and the global division of firms. Research Policy, 45(3), 724–745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2015.12.005
  19. Eggers, J. P., & Park, K. F. (2018). Incumbent Adaptation to Technological Change: The Past, Present, and Future of Research on Heterogeneous Incumbent Response. Academy of Management Annals, 12(1), 357–389. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2016.0051

16.4 Innovation in firms: search, knowledge and R&D

  1. Teece, D. J. (1986). Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy. Research Policy, 15(6), 285–305. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(86)90027-23
  2. Fleming, L. (2001). Recombinant Uncertainty in Technological Search. Management Science, 47(1), 117–132. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.47.1.117.106713
  3. Arrow, K. J. (1962). Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention. In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity (pp. 609–626). Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400879762-0242
  4. Stuart, T. E., & Podolny, J. M. (1996). Local search and the evolution of technological capabilities. Strategic Management Journal, 17(S1), 21–38. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.42501710042
  5. Audretsch, D. B., & Feldman, M. B. (1996). R&D spillovers and the geography of innovation and production. American Economic Review, 86(3), 630–640.2
  6. Katila, R., & Ahuja, G. (2002). Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study of Search Behavior and New Product Introduction. Academy of Management Journal, 45(6), 1183–1194. https://doi.org/10.2307/30694332
  7. Gans, J. S., & Stern, S. (2003). The product market and the market for “ideas”: commercialization strategies for technology entrepreneurs. Research Policy, 32(2), 333–350. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0048-7333(02)00103-82
  8. Alcácer, J., & Chung, W. (2007). Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers. Management Science, 53(5), 760–776. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1060.06372
  9. Boudreau, K. J., Lacetera, N., & Lakhani, K. R. (2011). Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis. Management Science, 57(5), 843–863. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1110.13222
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  1. Dosi, G. (1988). Sources, procedures, and microeconomic effects of innovation. Journal of Economic Literature, 26(3), 1120–1171.
  2. Stokes, D. E. (1997). Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Brookings Institution Press, Washington D.C.
  3. Hargadon, A., & Sutton, R. I. (1997). Technology Brokering and Innovation in a Product Development Firm. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(4), 716. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393655
  4. Galunic, D. C., & Rodan, S. (1998). Resource recombinations in the firm: knowledge structures and the potential for schumpeterian innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 19(12), 1193–1201. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(1998120)19:12<1193::aid-smj5>3.0.co;2-f
  5. Griliches, Z. (1998). The search for R&D spillovers. In R&D and Productivity: The Econometric Evidence. University of Chicago Press.
  6. Almeida, P., & Kogut, B. (1999). Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks. Management Science, 45(7), 905–917. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.45.7.905
  7. Bresnahan, T. (2001). 'Old Economy' Inputs for 'New Economy' Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valleys. Industrial and Corporate Change, 10(4), 835–860. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/10.4.835
  8. Rosenkopf, L., & Nerkar, A. (2001). Beyond local search: boundary‐spanning, exploration, and impact in the optical disk industry. Strategic Management Journal, 22(4), 287–306. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.160
  9. Ahuja, G., & Katila, R. (2001). Technological acquisitions and the innovation performance of acquiring firms: a longitudinal study. Strategic Management Journal, 22(3), 197–220. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.157
  10. Breschi, S., Lissoni, F., & Malerba, F. (2003). Knowledge-relatedness in firm technological diversification. Research Policy, 32(1), 69–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0048-7333(02)00004-5
  11. Rothaermel, F. T., & Deeds, D. L. (2004). Exploration and exploitation alliances in biotechnology: a system of new product development. Strategic Management Journal, 25(3), 201–221. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.376
  12. Argyres, N. S., & Silverman, B. S. (2004). R&D, organization structure, and the development of corporate technological knowledge. Strategic Management Journal, 25(8-9), 929–958. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.387
  13. Zhou, K. Z., Yim, C. K., & Tse, D. K. (2005). The Effects of Strategic Orientations on Technology- and Market-Based Breakthrough Innovations. Journal of Marketing, 69(2), 42–60. https://doi.org/10.1509/jmkg.69.2.42.60756
  14. Zhao, M. (2006). Conducting R&D in Countries with Weak IPR. Management Science.
  15. Cassiman, B., & Ueda, M. (2006). Optimal Project Rejection and New Firm Start-ups. Management Science, 52(2), 262–275. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1050.0458
  16. Winter, S. G. (2006). The logic of appropriability: From Schumpeter to Arrow to Teece. Research Policy, 35(8), 1100–1106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2006.09.010
  17. Lerner, J., & Wulf, J. (2007). Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D. Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(4), 634–644. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest.89.4.634
  18. Schilling, M. A., & Phelps, C. C. (2007). Interfirm Collaboration Networks: The Impact of Large-Scale Network Structure on Firm Innovation. Management Science, 53(7), 1113–1126. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1060.0624
  19. Ahuja, G., Lampert, C. M., & Tandon, V. (2008). Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation. Academy of Management Annals, 2(1), 1–98. https://doi.org/10.5465/19416520802211446
  20. Pisano, G. P., & Shih, W. C. (2009). Restoring American Competitiveness. Harvard Business Review, 87(July).
  21. Jones, B. F. (2009). The Burden of Knowledge and the “Death of the Renaissance Man”: Is Innovation Getting Harder? Review of Economic Studies, 76(1), 283–317. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-937x.2008.00531.x
  22. Singh, J., & Fleming, L. (2010). Lone Inventors as Sources of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality? Management Science, 56(1), 41–56. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1090.1072
  23. Azoulay, P., Zivin, J. S. G., & Wang, J. (2010). Superstar Extinction. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(2), 549–589. https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2010.125.2.549
  24. Sauermann, H., & Cohen, W. M. (2010). What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation. Management Science, 56(12), 2134–2153. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1100.1241
  25. Furman, J. L., & Stern, S. (2011). Climbing atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research. American Economic Review, 101(5), 1933–1963. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.5.1933
  26. Baldwin, C., & von Hippel, E. (2011). Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation. Organization Science, 22(6), 1399–1417. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0618
  27. Davis, J. P., & Eisenhardt, K. M. (2011). Rotating Leadership and Collaborative Innovation: Recombination Processes in Symbiotic Relationships. Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(2), 159–201. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839211428131
  28. Bernstein, S. (2012). Does Going Public Affect Innovation? Stanford University working paper. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2061441
  29. Alcácer, J., & Zhao, M. (2012). Local R&D Strategies and Multilocation Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages. Management Science, 58(4), 734–753. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1110.1451
  30. Ceccagnoli, M., & Jiang, L. (2013). The cost of integrating external technologies: Supply and demand drivers of value creation in the markets for technology. Strategic Management Journal, 34(4), 404–425. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2020
  31. Berry, H. (2015). Knowledge Inheritance in Global Industries: The Impact of Parent Firm Knowledge on the Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries. Academy of Management Journal, 58(5), 1438–1458. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2013.0724
  32. Hernandez, E., Sanders, W. G., & Tuschke, A. (2015). Network Defense: Pruning, Grafting, and Closing to Prevent Leakage of Strategic Knowledge to Rivals. Academy of Management Journal, 58(4), 1233–1260. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.0773
  33. Lifshitz-Assaf, H. (2018). Dismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA: The Critical Role of Professional Identity in Open Innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63(4), 746–782. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839217747876
  34. Eggers, J. P., & Kaul, A. (2018). Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents. Academy of Management Journal, 61(1), 67–93. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2015.1123
  35. Hannigan, T. R., Seidel, V. P., & Yakis-Douglas, B. (2018). Product innovation rumors as forms of open innovation. Research Policy, 47(5), 953–964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.02.018
  36. Galasso, A., & Luo, H. (2021). Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices. Management Science, 67(5), 3022–3040. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3634
  37. Keum, D. (2022). Employee Rights at What Cost? The Decoupling of Technological Invention and Post-Invention Employment Growth.

16.5 Creativity in individuals and teams

  1. Amabile, T. M. (1983). The social psychology of creativity: A componential conceptualization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45(2), 357–376. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.45.2.3572
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  8. Ford, C. M. (1996). A Theory of Individual Creative Action in Multiple Social Domains. Academy of Management Review, 21(4), 1112. https://doi.org/10.2307/259166
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  18. Shalley, C. E., & Gilson, L. L. (2004). What leaders need to know: A review of social and contextual factors that can foster or hinder creativity. The Leadership Quarterly, 15(1), 33–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2003.12.004
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  21. Perry-Smith, J. E. (2006). Social Yet Creative: The Role Of Social Relationships In Facilitating Individual Creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 49(1), 85–101. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2006.20785503
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  24. George, J. M. (2007). Creativity in Organizations. Academy of Management Annals, 1(1), 439–477. https://doi.org/10.5465/078559814
  25. Litchfield, R. C. (2008). Brainstorming Reconsidered: A Goal-Based View. Academy of Management Review, 33(3), 649–668. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2008.32465708
  26. Hirst, G., Van Knippenberg, D., & Zhou, J. (2009). A Cross-Level Perspective on Employee Creativity: Goal Orientation, Team Learning Behavior, and Individual Creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 52(2), 280–293. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2009.37308035
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16.6 Business models, platforms and ecosystems

  1. Casadesus‐Masanell, R., & Zhu, F. (2013). Business model innovation and competitive imitation: The case of sponsor‐based business models. Strategic Management Journal, 34(4), 464–482. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.20222
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  1. Amit, R., & Zott, C. (2001). Value creation in E‐business. Strategic Management Journal, 22(6-7), 493–520. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.187
  2. Chesbrough, H. (2002). The role of the business model in capturing value from innovation: evidence from Xerox Corporation's technology spin-off companies. Industrial and Corporate Change, 11(3), 529–555. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/11.3.529
  3. Zott, C., & Amit, R. (2007). Business Model Design and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms. Organization Science, 18(2), 181–199. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1060.0232
  4. Gawer, A., & Henderson, R. (2007). Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary Markets: Evidence from Intel. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 16(1), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-9134.2007.00130.x
  5. Zott, C., & Amit, R. (2008). The fit between product market strategy and business model: implications for firm performance. Strategic Management Journal, 29(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.642
  6. Zott, C., & Amit, R. (2009). The Business Model as the Engine of Network-based Strategies. In P. Kleindorfer & Y. Wind (Eds.), The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit, and Risk in an Interlinked World. Wharton School Publishing.
  7. Zott, C., & Amit, R. (2010). Business Model Design: An Activity System Perspective. Long Range Planning, 43(2-3), 216–226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2009.07.004
  8. Zott, C., Amit, R., & Massa, L. (2011). The Business Model: Recent Developments and Future Research. Journal of Management, 37(4), 1019–1042. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206311406265
  9. Zott, C., & Amit, R. (2012). Business Model Innovation: Creating value in times of change. Sloan Management Review, 53(3), 41–49.
  10. Zhu, F., & Iansiti, M. (2012). Entry into platform‐based markets. Strategic Management Journal, 33(1), 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.941
  11. Amit, R., & Zott, C. (2012). The Business Model. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, D. Teece (Ed.).
  12. Zott, C., & Amit, R. (2012). The Business Model. In M. H. Morris & D. F. Kuratko (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship Research (3rd ed.). John Wiley and Sons.
  13. Zott, C., & Amit, R. (2013). The business model: A theoretically anchored robust construct for strategic analysis. Strategic Organization, 11(4), 403–411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127013510466
  14. Seamans, R., & Zhu, F. (2014). Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers. Management Science, 60(2), 476–493. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2013.1785
  15. Demil, B., Lecocq, X., Ricart, J. E., & Zott, C. (2015). Introduction to the SEJ Special Issue on Business Models: Business Models within the Domain of Strategic Entrepreneurship. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1194
  16. Adner, R. (2017). Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy. Journal of Management, 43(1), 39–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316678451
  17. Foss, N. J., & Saebi, T. (2017). Fifteen Years of Research on Business Model Innovation: How Far Have We Come, and Where Should We Go? Journal of Management, 43(1), 200–227. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316675927
  18. Rietveld, J., & Eggers, J. P. (2018). Demand Heterogeneity in Platform Markets: Implications for Complementors. Organization Science, 29(2), 304–322. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2017.1183
  19. Li, H., Fang, Y., Lim, K. H., & Wang, Y. (2019). Platform-Based Function Repertoire, Reputation, and Sales Performance of E-Marketplace Sellers1. MIS Quarterly, 43(1), 207–236. https://doi.org/10.25300/misq/2019/14201
  20. Adner, R., Puranam, P., & Zhu, F. (2019). What Is Different About Digital Strategy? From Quantitative to Qualitative Change. Strategy Science, 4(4), 253–261. https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2019.0099
  21. Jean, R.-J., Kim, D., Zhou, K. Z., & Cavusgil, S. T. (2021). E-platform use and exporting in the context of Alibaba: A signaling theory perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(8), 1501–1528. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-020-00396-w
  22. Rietveld, J., & Schilling, M. A. (2021). Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature. Journal of Management, 47(6), 1528–1563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206320969791

16.7 Organizational and managerial innovation

No reading here is assigned in more than one source.

23 readings listed in one source
  1. Drucker, P. (1985). Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Harper and Row.
  2. Van de Ven, A. H. (1986). Central Problems in the Management of Innovation. Management Science, 32(5), 590–607. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.32.5.590
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  9. Ayers, D., Dahlstrom, R., & Skinner, S. J. (1997). An Exploratory Investigation of Organizational Antecedents to New Product Success. Journal of Marketing Research, 34(1), 107. https://doi.org/10.2307/3152068
  10. Han, J. K., Kim, N., & Srivastava, R. K. (1998). Market Orientation and Organizational Performance: Is Innovation a Missing Link? Journal of Marketing, 62(4), 30–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/002224299806200403
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  13. Washington, M., & Ventresca, M. J. (2004). How Organizations Change: The Role of Institutional Support Mechanisms in the Incorporation of Higher Education Visibility Strategies, 1874–1995. Organization Science, 15(1), 82–97. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1030.0057
  14. Jansen, J. J. P., Van Den Bosch, F. A. J., & Volberda, H. W. (2006). Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators. Management Science, 52(11), 1661–1674. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1060.0576
  15. Puranam, P., Singh, H., & Zollo, M. (2006). Organizing for Innovation: Managing the Coordination-Autonomy Dilemma in Technology Acquisitions. Academy of Management Journal, 49(2), 263–280. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2006.20786062
  16. Zhou, K. Z., & Wu, F. (2010). Technological capability, strategic flexibility, and product innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 31(5), 547–561. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.830
  17. Taylor, A. (2010). The Next Generation: Technology Adoption and Integration Through Internal Competition in New Product Development. Organization Science, 21(1), 23–41. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0399
  18. Rindova, V., Dalpiaz, E., & Ravasi, D. (2011). A Cultural Quest: A Study of Organizational Use of New Cultural Resources in Strategy Formation. Organization Science, 22(2), 413–431. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0537
  19. Noordhoff, C. S., Kyriakopoulos, K., Moorman, C., Pauwels, P., & Dellaert, B. G. C. (2011). The Bright Side and Dark Side of Embedded Ties in Business-to-Business Innovation. Journal of Marketing, 75(5), 34–52. https://doi.org/10.1509/jmkg.75.5.34
  20. Jansen, J. J. P., Simsek, Z., & Cao, Q. (2012). Ambidexterity and performance in multiunit contexts: Cross‐level moderating effects of structural and resource attributes. Strategic Management Journal, 33(11), 1286–1303. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.1977
  21. Coviello, N. E., & Joseph, R. M. (2012). Creating Major Innovations with Customers: Insights from Small and Young Technology Firms. Journal of Marketing, 76(6), 87–104. https://doi.org/10.1509/jm.10.0418
  22. Sethi, R., Iqbal, Z., & Sethi, A. (2012). Developing New-to-the-Firm Products: The Role of Micropolitical Strategies. Journal of Marketing, 76(2), 99–115. https://doi.org/10.1509/jm.09.0308
  23. Garud, R., & Gehman, J. (2012). Metatheoretical perspectives on sustainability journeys: Evolutionary, relational and durational. Research Policy, 41(6), 980–995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2011.07.009