Thinking About Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change

By Sarah Kaplan, Mary Tripsas. 2008

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Technology, Identity, and Inertia Through the Lens of "The Digital Photography Company" (2009, background): “…success under one technological regime become inertial forces, limiting adaptive ﬂexibility and driving suboptimal outcomes in a different environment (Benner and Tushman 2002, Christensen and Bower 1996, Henderson and Clark 1990, Kaplan 2008, Tripsas and Gavetti 2000, Tushman and Anderson 1986).”
An Attention‐Based View of Family Firm Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change: Exploring the Role of Family CEOs' Noneconomic Goals (2015, background): “In particular, our findings advance knowledge of the cognitive antecedents of organizational adaptation (e.g., Kaplan, 2008, Kaplan and Tripsas, 2008, Maula, et al., 2013, Tripsas, 2009).”
Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing Innovation Management Research in a Digital World (2017, background): “If a dominant frame emerges, inertia to reframe may result, inhibiting innovators from perceiving the possibility of new cognitive frames and therefore new innovation opportunities (failure to reframe) (Kaplan and Tripsas 2008; Rosa and Porac 2002).”
Complementarities and competition: Unpacking the drivers of entrants' technology choices in the solar photovoltaic industry (2015, background): “Existing explanations have focused on factors such as cognition (Kaplan and Tripsas, 2008) or bandwagon behavior (Abrahamson and Rosenkopf, 1993).”
Research in Cognition and Strategy: Reflections on Two Decades of Progress and a Look to the Future (2011, neutral): “Recent research digs into these reciprocal dynamics between categories, material products, and the interests of actors in the creation and stabilization of categories (Kaplan and Tripsas, 2008).”
Understanding aesthetic innovation in the context of technological evolution. (2013, background): “Moreover, during later stages of the evolutionary cycle, users’ expectations about the technology and its ongoing incremental improvement become increasingly taken for granted (Kaplan & Tripsas, 2008; Pinch & Bijker, 1987; Tushman & Romanelli, 1985).”
Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “…(Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991; Sonenshein, 2010), to build coalitions and recruit allies through recognition of shared interests (Zhang & Greve, 2019), to exert political influence (Kaplan 2008; Kaplan & Tripsas 2008), and to engage in the symbolic manipulation of information (Elsbach & Sutton, 1992).”
Entrepreneurship in Regulated Markets: Framing Contests and Collective Action to Introduce Pay TV in the U.S. (2014, background): “…and Fiol, 1994; Rindova and Fombrun, 1999), unclear product definitions, industry structure and dependence relationships (Hargadon and Douglas, 2001; Ozcan and Santos, 2014; Santos and Eisenhardt, 2009), and lack of a dominant logic to guide actions (Kaplan and Tripsas, 2008; Porac et al, 2002).”
Customer preference discontinuities: a trigger for radical technological change (2008, background): “While supply-side conditions can be important, recent work has also begun to highlight the importance of demand-side factors.”
Flexing the Frame: TMT Framing and the Adoption of Non-Incremental Innovations in Incumbent Firms (2017, positive): “We sought to provoke new research that links innovation and cognition, especially for strategy and innovation scholars who have largely overlooked this relationship (Kaplan & Tripsas, 2008).”
Collective action and market formation: An integrative framework (2018, neutral): “conducting market research, developing a technological frame (Kaplan and Tripsas, 2008), constructing narratives (Lounsbury and Glynn, 2001), and creating collective producer identities (Kennedy, 2008; Navis and Glynn, 2010).”
The Process of Schema Emergence: Assimilation, Deconstruction, Unitization and the Plurality of Analogies (2013, methodology): “Yet, much empirical work on frames (e.g., Kaplan, 2008; Kaplan & Tripsas, 2008) relies on and explicitly references Goffman’s (1974/1986: 21) original conceptualization of frames, as “schemata of interpretation”.”