Technological pre-adaptation, speciation, and emergence of new technologies: how Corning invented and developed fiber optics

By Gino Cattani. 2006

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Competitive dynamics, strategic consistency, and organizational survival (2009, background): “…the evolution of industrial populations (Lewin and Volberda, 1999; Raff, 2000) have noted that firm-level changes must concur with the rate of change in the business context (e.g. changes in markets, regulation, macro-culture, and technology) to be able to survive (Cattani, 2006; Rosenbloom, 2000).”
Cognition and Capabilities: A Multi-Level Perspective (2013, background): “Research on exaptation (Cattani, 2006; Dew, 2007; Marquis & Huang, 2010) has begun to explore how resources and capabilities may be redeployed to serve new purposes, but most (with the notable exception of Danneels, 2011) give little consideration to the cognitive processes that underlie this…”
Knowledge Maturity and the Scientific Value of Innovations (2017, background): “Mature knowledge can also support radical innovation, as demonstrated in Corning’s development of fiber optics, which is considered a new application for a mature technology (Cattani, 2006).”
Economic Opportunity and Evolution: Beyond Landscapes and Bounded Rationality (2013, background): “And, Cattani (2005, 2006) offers an apt example of “preadaptation,” where Corning’s capabilities in glass manufacturing led to surprising new innovations in fiber optics technology.”
Outlines of a behavioral theory of the entrepreneurial firm (2008, background): “Technology historians stress that history is full of examples of technologies that were initially thought to be junk, but that were subsequently turned into important new products (Rosenberg, 1996, p. 95; Cattani, 2005, 2006).”
Serendipity in Entrepreneurship (2009, background): “Pre-discovery Corning’s pre-discovery of technology for optical fibers (Cattani 2006).”
Incumbent Adaptation to Technological Change: The Past, Present, and Future of Research on Heterogeneous Incumbent Response (2018, unknown): “Corning’s invention and development of fiber optics technology is an instance of innovation in which a firm redeployed its existing technological knowledge in a different domain (Cattani, 2006).”
Strategic management of business model transformation: lessons from Nokia (2011, background): “What is more, the technological capability of the middle-level managers allowed divergent actions from official corporate strategy (or recipe) (Burgelman, 1994; Cattani, 2006).”