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MayaHodroj

MayaHodroj

Joined December 2017

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Why do established firms fail to face disruptive technological change

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Because an organization's structure and how its groups work together may have been established to facilitate the design of its dominant product, the direction of causality may ultimately reverse itself: the organization's structure and the way its groups learn to work together can then affect the way it can and cannot design new products.

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"But when established firms wait until a new technolohy has become commercially mature in its new applications and lauch their own version of the technology only as a response to an attack on their home markets, the fear of cannibalization can become a self-fulfilling prophecy"

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"The fear of cannibilizing sales of existing products is often cited as a reason why established firms delay the introduction of new technologies. However, if new technologies enable new market applications to emerge, the introduction of new technology may not inherently be cannibalistic..."